> -----Original Message----- > From: Ferdinand Soethe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2007 9:03 PM > To: user@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: generating static pages that are not linked to > > > Ross Gardler wrote: > > > Retrieve http://www.bildungsverein.de/linkmap.html and you will see > > another link to the "hidden" page. This page appears in all Forrest > > generated sites, it is what Forrest uses to as a list of pages that > > need to be generated according to site.xml. > > That's what I meant by having an additional sitemap (in the web master > sense of the word). > > But this page is not normally linked to from anywhere, is it? So unless > you explicitly build a link to it, a visitor or search engine would > never "find" it, unless they understood Forrest. > > Btw: Is this page really needed in the _final site_? In other words > could we not eleminate or at least generate it conditionally? > > Or, as a very simple solution, not sync it? > > Thorsten wrote: > > > The above is as ant target but you can call it like: > > forrest site -Dproject.start-uri=/private/index.html > > That sounds nice and easy. But I assume that it would also stop all > hiden pages from being generated once again, right?
I guess are many solutions may or may not fit the job, webmasters should therefore probably use a robots.txt to ensure exclusion -- most of the major search engines will adhere to the rules contained within. Gav...
