Search engine friendly URLs 1

[webmigit]

I've been on a web host for almost a year, lets call them "WH"..

Anyway on WH I was able to use urls like..

http://mysite.com/refsite.cfm/Tech

And that was a search engine friendly dynamic link to a referral page for the user Tech..

Well the site's gotten bigger, so WH moved us to a dedicated server.. now everything works except urls like that...

Its been a week and they've done nothing, and I can't keep waiting on them, what exactly do I need to do to enable this ability... Win2k/Cold Fusion MX/IIS 5.

I don't expect to hear back from them because my first email got a response saying urls cannot be formatted like that..

Thanks much, and please let me know,
Tony Hicks

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[Harlequin007]

Are you wanting to host locally web...?

If so, what OS...? Windows 2k, 2k SBS, 2k Adv Serv...?

Let us know and I'm sure you'll get all the help you need mate.

For starters, if you answer yes to any of the above OSs. Read up on configuring IIS. There's plenty of resources out there and I'll help all I can mate.

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[webmigit]

Thanks.. glad someone replied... this really is urgent and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for even in google..

I'm on Windows 2000 Adv. Server..

I'll start a fresh round of searching and keep my fingers crossed.. I mean so many web servers can do this yet noone can seem to tell me how, not the tech guys at this host, friends at another web host..

I'm thinking that web-developers and tech guys refer to this in two different ways so I'll just fire off an example...

Most dynamic urls as everyone knows appear something like this..
mysite.com?a=1&b=5&cq=cattail

But on some servers you can format the urls like this..
mysite.com/a/1/b/5/cq/cattail

or like this
mysite.com/a=1/b=5/cq=cattail

Takes some tough parsing to sometimes but search engines like it a lot better..

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[ChrisHirst]

article found on google

http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/articleprint.cfm?id=388

Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[webmigit]

Thanks but this is not what I need...

The page is not processing at all, I get a cannot find server message.. I need to know what to do in IIS to make it recognize that..

site.com/file.cfm/the/variables/go/here is just site.com/file.cfm in actuality.

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[ChrisHirst]

I see. In that case you need a url rewrite component installed on the server.

http://www.isapirewrite.com/

http://www.opcode.co.uk/components/rewrite.asp

http://www.cfdev.com/products/productdetail.cfm/id/1023

As you haven't moved hosts, only servers I would assume they already have something like this.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[webmigit]

Chris, you'd think that'd be the case but it was not... The server guys were completely clueless..

Anyway thanks.. that does exactly what I want, even better..

Man, you get a star, ten if I could give you that many..

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