Converted Asp to Html and experiencing a major problem.

[whizzinhtml]

I had everything done in asp on my website. But search engines werent seeing me because of the querystring thing and every page had one header , so i decided to change everything to html. To turn my asp to html I used webstripper. It pretty much does the same as viewing the page and saving it as html. Everything looks good and works fine for me. However, on my site, the page when your viewing a product has a form that has a dropdown list to choose options and a text field for the customer to type in what they want engraved on the product. Then the form submits to another file on my server(<form method="post" action="../productcart/pc/instPrd.asp" name="additem">) Well now im having a problem with the information being passed. On occasion the form doesnt send the options or what the customer put in the text field to the shopping cart. There is also some javascript in the code. Im not sure if thats the problem. I need someone to help me figure this out because it only happens occasionaly therefore its hard for me to find out the problem.

[pageoneresults]

whizzinhtml, Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

By changing the file extensions from .asp to .html you've removed the functionality of those pages. There should have been no reason whatsoever to make that kind of change.

You'd be better off switching those pages back to .asp if you want to eliminate the problems you are having now. Unless of course you've configured the server to do something else.

[asquithea]

Search engines should have had no problem seeing you, provided that your GET query parameters were reasonably sane. MSN Bot recently made a sprited attempt to recursively index the whole of my site, and Google regularly shows that it is capable of indexing data-driven pages.

[whizzinhtml]

I cant really go back to asp. I tried patching the asp code into the html and renaming to asp. But I had no luck with that. I couldnt get it to work. I have no idea what to do. I just dont understand why the problem happens sometimes and sometimes it works fine.

[edited by: tedster at 8:38 am (utc) on Mar. 19, 2004]
[edit reason] remove specifics [/edit]

[vkaryl]

Did you not have a backup of your original code? Perhaps your server/host might have a backup of the .asp code you could obtain?

Otherwise, you might need to rewrite it from scratch - difficult and not fun, certainly, but possible and maybe the logical solution....

[txbakers]

Reading through this thread reminded me of this one:

[webmasterworld.com...]

What you thought was the right thing turned out to be a disaster. It looks like you will need to rebuild the site from scratch unless you can get a full backup.

[whizzinhtml]

I definitely have backup. Its just we need these pages indexed in search engines for better rankings. If we take out each items html page and go back to asp, it brings it down to one dynamic asp page instead of the 300 static html ones now. But i think i found a solution. From category to item im going to make it go back to asp and the items that are html are going to be referenced only from a site map. That way they will stay indexed. Also make them less optimized so users wont see them through the search engine, they will go directly to the category.