[ic] Problems with search engine indexing

dz-mtspring interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Apr 12 13:04:01 2003


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From: "Jonathan Melhuish" <jon@netacclaim.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: [ic] Problems with search engine indexing


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> I'm sure this must be a common problem, but I couldn't find anything
relevant
> in the archives:
>
> It seems that Google (and probably other search engines) are refusing to
index
> my site, as the Interchange pages look like they are in a directory whose
> name contains a dot, eg.
>
> http://www.smssat.biz/sms.ic/index.html
>
> The .ic extension tells apache to process it as a cgi-script (outside of
> CGI-wrap).  I tried changing the AddHandler to -ic but it didn't seem to
work
> (it just spews garbage), unless I am forgetting something else I need to
> change?
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon

This belongs to the issue of  "Getting rid of /cig-bin/scripname" which was
discussed quite extensively just recently. Try search it that direction.


David
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