Predator wrote:
An Example to work with mod_rewrite and XOOPS you see here:
http://www.myxoopsforge.de/modules/phpwiki/index.php/XoopsModRewrite
Any chance somone could translate that for us non-german folk?
On the topic of search engines, while Google can crawl "index.php?var=value" many other major search engines still do not, and their crawlers fail to index the pages. If you look at any major website like MSN, Yahoo, CNN, Netscpe etc.. they all use some sort of URL rewrite meathod to display their content. Also, most crawlers won't go below a certain sublevel of direcotries, usually 2, unless a direct link is found in a higher level (like the homepage). So if you havehttp://mysite.com/xoops/modules/articles/index.php?etc chances are the crawlers won't go deeper than the modules main directory. This is also an instance where havinghttp://mysite.com/articles/4566.html would be usefull for indexing.
There's actually some very good articles over athttp://www.sitepoint.com concerning engines and indexing. Give a read if you have a chance.
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1060
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/485
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/945
There's just a few to start you going.