cfm or htm

will SEs like it?

[JonB]

i uploaded mirror site to my new domain...all files are in .cfm (cold fusion i think)..

my question:

1. when i type in www.mysite.com then i dont get index load automaticaly but i jsut get directory listing.i presume this is because i have index.cfm and not index.htm
i made copy with index.htm but i am not sure if htm has the same functionality like cfm.So how do i make that index.cfm will be loaded automaticaly when soemone types www.mysite.com

2. what about SEs? google especialy etc? do they like .cfm? i dont rememebr seeing any .cfm files in top results on terms i follow...

3.so if i rename all files to .htm will it work?

maybe i am getting this all wrong...i have no idea about cfm...any help appreciated..

[agerhart]

Google doesn't care what your file extensions are. They can be php, asp, aspx, htm, html, cfm, or anything else that you want. Your extensions have no effect on rankings.

[wackybrit]

I like to play it safe. I always set up mod_rewrite rules so that sites always run entirely on .html extensions. There are lots of spiders out there, so playing it safe keeps things easy for me. And the time it takes to create a relevant mod_rewrite rule so I never have to use the wacky extensions again is tiny.

[agerhart]

You can do what wackybrit suggested, and many do to cover all bases, but it is unnecessary.

[edit_g]

Just don't have too many!'s,?'s or &'s and stay away from session ID's any you should be fine. Google doesn't really seem to care all that much.

[atadams]

when i type in www.mysite.com then i dont get index load automaticaly but i jsut get directory listing.

Do you have Coldfusion Server running on your server?

[sun818]

Hey JonB, since you are referring to .CFM (ColdFusion), my guess is that you are most likely running on IIS 4/5. If you go into Internet Services Manager, under the Documents tab you can configure which "default" file you want the web server to look for first. So, in your case you would put default.cfm at the top.

If you are using a web host, I suggest you ask tech support what the names of the "default" documents are. They really could be anything.

.CFM and .HTM have different functionality. .CFM is a dynamic scripting language where the scripting code is processed before you are served a file. .HTM is just a static HTML with no server side code in it.

There are ways to make CFM URLs friendly by converting all your & and? in a URL into slashes. [webmasterworld.com] I posted one method, but you can search for more examples in the Macromedia Developer Forum.