jdMorgan
msg:1526090 | 5:49 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Patrick, The problem is the 301 redirect from sub.domain.com to sub.domain.com/sub/ . This tells the robot that /sub/ is not a root-level directory. You might want to use a transparent redirect instead, and place your robots.txt for sub.domain.com in sub.domain.com/sub/robots.txt. Using a transparent redirect means that the robot will see sub.domain.com as a domain in its own right, separate and distinct from domain.com or www.domain.com. Pages will be indexed in the sub.domain.com domain (sub.domain.com will be in the listed URL). If this is a problem, 301-redirect the pages using .htaccess in the /sub/ folder itself; Robots will then reach that level (that subdirectory) and read robots.txt before they see the redirects for the other pages. Here's an example .htaccess rewrite:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /%1/$1 [L]
This is a transparent redirect - a filepath substitution only, and is written for a per-directory .htaccess context; For use in httpd.conf, add a "/" ahead of the RewriteRule pattern. Jim
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PatrickDeese
msg:1526091 | 6:20 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
thanks for answering.
this is what the tech support folks gave me when I requested the subdomain be set up: --
#!/usr/bin/perl$url=""; if($ENV{'HTTP_HOST'} eq 'www.sub.example.com')
{$url = "http://sub.example.com/sub/index.html"} if($ENV{'HTTP_HOST'} eq 'sub.example.com')
{$url = "http://sub.example.com/sub/index.html"} if($url eq "") {$url="http://www.example.com/index.html"} #################################################################
print "Location: $url\n";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>\n";
print "<A HREF=\"$url\">Click here to enter</A>\n";
print "</BODY></HTML>";
-- It seems pretty different from yours. Do you suppose it is compatible?
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jdMorgan
msg:1526092 | 6:29 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Patrick, My code is for .htaccess on Apache, and yours is for PERL. If you're on Apache, the code I provided would simply replace the PERL script. It would also be processed in "native mode" by Apache, and therefore be more efficient. You could ask for advice over in the PERL scripting forum if you are not hosted on Apache and can't set up something similar using your control panel (e.g. on an IIS server). Jim
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PatrickDeese
msg:1526093 | 6:36 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
My hosting is definitely Apache, but I think my hosting co. doesn't want people futzing around directly and therefore do all their redirecting etc via perl. I think I will ask tech support if they can implement your method. thanks again for your help.
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