On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi, Google and probably most other search engines don't index website that have URL's in the following format: http://localhost/mycgi?action=myaction Basically parametrized URL's containing ? or = characters. What do I need to do in my CGI program to create Search Engine friendly URL's? Note that I'm not using some fancy framework like fpWeb, just plain old CGI (console type) app. For example, changing the above URL to something like: http://localhost/mycgi/myaction 'mycgi' being the CGI application 'myaction' being the parameter passed to the CGI app. My got a custom written (very basic) wiki, which uses the format of the first URL show, and would like to change my CGI wiki app to use Search Engine friendly URL's so my wiki pages can be indexed by Google. PS: Please note, I'm not really into web development, so sorry if this is a dumb sounding question. :)
When using cgi or FastCGI, the PATHINFO environment variable contains the /myaction part - in fact, it contains whatever the server finds after the
path to the CGI app. If you'd do http://localhost/mycgi/myaction/myvariable/myvalue, then PATHINFO would contain myaction/myvariable/myvalue, and you can then parse and use that. fpweb does the same. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
