HowTo on making PHPMyFAQ spiderable. (static pages)

nickn · Post by **nickn** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:24 am

Here is a HowTo on making your PHPMyFAQ completely indexable by search engines. This is in use on www.cpanelfaq.com, as you can see by going to google and typing "site:cpanelfaq.com" you will see that almost every page of my FAQ is indexed already.

I've detailed what every rule does, as well as attached my functions.php, please note that there are changes that need to be made in this file as I made most of the URLs independant to my site (due to lack of PHP skills)

Here is the fucntions.phps:

http://www.cpanelfaq.com/downloads/functions.phps

I am not a PHP coder, we hope to see this stuff put into the FAQ as an option in the future, until than...this is mostly for Thorsten to reference.

Rewrite Rules I used to make PHPMyFAQ searchable, I've detailed what each one is for under the rule:

The below rules are normal rules neccessary to turn on the rewrite engine, and log appropriately

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/home/cpfaq/public_html/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 2
Options +FollowSymLinks

Rewrites http://www.example.com/001/3.html to http:///index.php?aktion=artikel&rubrik=001&id=2&lang=en

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RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)\.html /index.php?aktion=artikel&rubrik=$1&id=$2&lang=en [L]

Rewrites http://www.example.com/sitemap001.html to http://www.example.com/index.php?aktion=sitemap001 , this simply allows me to create another HTML page that contains nothing but links to each catagory, each page contains all links for catagory

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RewriteRule ^/[Ss][Ii][Tt][Ee][Mm][Aa][Pp]([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?aktion=sitemap$1 [L]

Rewrites http://www.example.com/sitemap.html to http://www.example.com/index.php?aktion=sitemap, this page simply holds all the links for the different sitemaps for each catagory, I created a link to this page on the main page

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RewriteRule ^/[Ss][Ii][Tt][Ee][Mm][Aa][Pp]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=sitemap [L]

Rewrites http://www.example.com/003/index.html to the main catagory page at http:///www.example.com//index.php?aktion=anzeigen&rubrik=003

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RewriteRule ^/([0-3][0-3][0-9])/[Ii][Nn][Dd][Ee][Xx]\.html /index.php?aktion=anzeigen&rubrik=$1 [L]

Rewrites http://www.example.com/showcat.html to http://www.example.com/index.php?aktion=anzeigen which is the page that shows all catagories

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ReWriteRule ^/[Ss][Hh][Oo][Ww][Cc][Aa][Tt]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=anzeigen [L]

The below rules are not absolutely neccessary, but it makes the site 100% static. What they do is very obvious:

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ReWriteRule ^/[Ss][Ee][Aa][Rr][Cc][Hh]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=search [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Aa][Dd][Dd][Cc][Oo][Nn][Tt][Ee][Nn][Tt]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=add [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Aa][Ss][Kk]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=ask [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Oo][Pp][Ee][Nn]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=open [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Hh][Ee][Ll][Pp]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=hilfe [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Cc][Oo][Nn][Tt][Aa][Cc][Tt]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=kontakt [L]

All the rules together:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/home/cpfaq/public_html/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 2
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)\.html /index.php?aktion=artikel&rubrik=$1&id=$2&lang=en [L]
RewriteRule ^/[Ss][Ii][Tt][Ee][Mm][Aa][Pp]([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?aktion=sitemap$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/[Ss][Ii][Tt][Ee][Mm][Aa][Pp]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^/([0-3][0-3][0-9])/[Ii][Nn][Dd][Ee][Xx]\.html http://www.cpanelfaq.com/index.php?aktion=anzeigen&rubrik=$1 [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Ss][Hh][Oo][Ww][Cc][Aa][Tt]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=anzeigen [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Ss][Ee][Aa][Rr][Cc][Hh]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=search [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Aa][Dd][Dd][Cc][Oo][Nn][Tt][Ee][Nn][Tt]\.html$/index.php?aktion=add [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Aa][Ss][Kk]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=ask [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Oo][Pp][Ee][Nn]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=open [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Hh][Ee][Ll][Pp]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=hilfe [L]
ReWriteRule ^/[Cc][Oo][Nn][Tt][Aa][Cc][Tt]\.html$ /index.php?aktion=kontakt [L]

Any questions, don't hesitate to let me know

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:22 am

Hi Nick,

thanks for your work. I'll include this in one of the neyt version of phpMyFAQ!

bye
Thorsten

dmsinger · Post by **dmsinger** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:57 pm

* edit - removing my suggestion for the moment until I surf around more

dmsinger · Post by **dmsinger** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:47 pm

Ok, my question is - is it possible to have mod_rewrite used to create links that don't have the .html extension?

Like:
http://www.example.com/contact
http://www.example.com/003
http://www.example.com/001/3

nickn · Post by **nickn** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:52 pm

Sure...

What are you trying to rewrite it too? Give me the new (shorter) URL and the URL that you want to rewrite too (ie the default..old.. URL)

Gastongr · Post by **Gastongr** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:38 am

How do i apply this to my site?
i mean where should i put the Rewrite rules. And what about functions.php?

I tryed putting the rules in the .htaccess file and replaceing my functions.php with the one you posted (i changed the urls) but it doesn't work.

I'd really appresiate your help

Thanks Gaston

Post by **Thorsten** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:05 am

Hi,

does your webserver support mod_rewrite?

bye
Thorsten

Gastongr · Post by **Gastongr** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:59 pm

I think it does because i'm using some rewrite rules in other site hosted in the same account. the htaccess file i use in that site is this

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RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^forums.* index.php [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?p=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?p=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^view-poll([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&vote=viewresult [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&view=newest viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=newest [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^mark-forum([0-9]*).html* viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topics [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&watch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^stop-updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&unwatch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).html viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^topic-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next [L,NC]

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Post by **Thorsten** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:45 pm

These are not the rules for phpMyFAQ 1.3.x.....

bye
Thorsten

Gastongr · Post by **Gastongr** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:47 pm

I know they'r not for phpmyfaq but i used them succesfully for other script in my webserver, so i think the server supports mod_rewrite.
I was answering your question

does your webserver support mod_rewrite?

Yes it does.

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:29 am

Hi,

okay.

Since I did not write this hack I cannot say anything about that. Sorry. Please send an e-mal to the author of the hack.

bye
Thorsten

brakai295 · Post by **brakai295** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:08 pm

Hi!

Very interesting this thread! I'm looking for a script that makes my FAQ spiderable. But I'm using 1.4.1.

Is there anyone that has tried to implement to script above in the 1.4.* version?

Cheers
Kai

Post by **Thorsten** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:11 pm

Hi,

as written in another thread I will port the mod_rewrite support to 1.4.2.

bye
Thorsten

nickn · Post by **nickn** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:39 am

Thorsten,

Will it be included in the actual application? or just hacks like I created?

Looking forward to 1.4.2, getting ready to start another site using phpmyfaq[/code]

nickn · Post by **nickn** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:17 am

Did you happen to get around to doing this yet? Very interested in this feature so I don't have to hack up a custom patch again....causes issues when upgrading, etc..