[Xitami] CGI Alias and Dynamic URL conversion - IT WORKS!

[Francis Turner]

much better than the GSL I just suggested on the other post...

On Jan 9, 2008 8:23 AM, Russel Olinger <rolinger1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Woohooo...ok.  Apache uses mod_perl and mod_rewrite to convert dynamic URLs
> to static ones, but no such luck using it with Xitami.  However, you can use
> Xitami's CGI Alias' to do the trick.  Some of you might have known this or
> have figured it out previously - if so, then excuse my enthusiasm.  But if
> not, then read on below to learn how to do it.
>
> This is technique is very very helpful for those who are interested in
> making their websites as Search Enginer Crawler friendly as possible....of
> all the SEO reading I have done indicates that crawlers indexing sites do
> not look favorably on dynamic URLs and give higher priority and
> consideration to static URLs - thus better ranking, higher and more frequent
> crawl rates.
>
> I needed to do this because I have over 700,000 pages of content that
> fluctuates daily and Google wasn't getting past about 24,000 indexed pages
> while MSN and Yahoo were barely crawling/indexing my site at all.  80% of
> those looking at my site to help me figure out why my numbers were so low
> all pointed to my extensive dynamic URLs as being a big part of the problem.
>
> =========
> A typical Dynamic URL:
>     www.example.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl?id=12345&var1=100&var2=Hello Everyone
>
> In what ever script you use to generate the above URL you can easily create
> that URL and then spit it out as a static URL
>
> Static URL: www.example.com/foo/12345/100/hello everyone/
> OR: Static URL: www.example.com/foo/id_12345/var1_100/var2_Hello Everyone
>
> Then using Xitami's CGI Alias section create the following kind of alias
> link:
>
> /foo = /xitami/cgi-bin/foo.pl
>
> Xitami requires that /foo be the beginning of the URL...and anytime it sees
> /foo at the beginning, regardless of what follows it, Xitami will execute
> the associated script...in this case: /xitami/cgi-bin/foo.pl
>
> Then in the actual foo.pl script you would simply need to grab the
> $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} and parse it....conveniently, PATH_INFO from the above
> static examples would be everything AFTER /foo/
>
> Testing a simple perl script for foo.pl
>
> #!/perl/bin/perl
> @getVars = split(/\//,$ENV{'PATH_INFO'}) ;
> print "\n at getVars" ;
>
> #### Example 1 Returns:
> 12345
> 100
> Hello Everyone
>
> ### Example 2 Returns:
> id_12345
> var1_100
> var2_Hello Everyone
>
> This in example 1 you would need to know the exact order of your parsed
> variables, but in example 2 you can include the var names as part of the
> variable value...I prefer the second method because then you can order your
> variables in any order and add as many as you want without worry of having
> to always know the order or worry that you didn't account for every variable
> needed.
>
> Anyway...
>
>
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