The way 99% of the people do it is to create default pages for each folder. I am not sure why you why you would want to do something different, since specifying default pages is trivial.
One way to accomplish this in code is to make use of either a function that runs in Application.cfm or use the 404 error handler to handle the missing file error intelligently. You could also install a URL rewriting filter. As an aside, I have substantial experience in SEO, but I don't see a strong connection to doing what you are trying to do and making "search engine friendly" URLs. The one thing I would point out is that the following four pages could potentially be indexed separately: http://site.com/, http://www.site.com, http://site.com/index.cfm, http://www.site.com/index.cfm. So if you are going to chop off the default page in the URL, make sure you don't have some links in your site that add it back. From an SEO standpoint, if your home page is http://site.com/, then you shouldn't have any links for http://site.com/index.cfm, even if they are the same exact page. Good luck, Mike Chabot On 3/16/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of URLs set up like this in the last yera or so: > > http://www.somesite.com/financing/ > or > http://www.somesite.com/company-info/aboutus/ > > I have a custom tag that allows me to have a URL like this: > http://www.somesite.com/page/aboutus > > where page is the key and aboutus is the page name. But short of creating > actual folders with individual index pages, I don't know how people are doing > this. In the first example, would I create a file named "financing.cfm" and > somehow map it to that URL? Is there a way of accomplishing this in code? > > I've got a client I'm going to be working with soon that would like nice > search engine friendly pages and I'm just doing my research. Anyone have > ideas? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272780 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
