that damn index.pl

trying to get rid of index.pl

[petr]

I took a job on a site that heavily uses perl scripts and mysql. The way it is built there are a bunch of *.html pages with meta redirects to *.pl pages. It would be fine but when web spiders get to the front page which is nothing more than index.html with a redirect to a corresponding perl script it does not crawl the site. ;(. The site is hosted by Yahoo.com which only supports index.html as a default page. Could you recommend me a way to use the power of .pl, bu somehow tame it in index.html without any redirects (which pretty much resulted in site's zero presence on search engines).

[timster]

Maybe instead of having index.html redirect to index.pl you could have your (otherwise blank) index.html include index.pl (using SSI).

[petr]

any recommendation on how to do that?
some website links or specific examples would be great. The current setup is mysql/php/perl all running on this site

[kaled]

If the redirect is implemented correctly, it is unlikely that this is the reason for search engines ignoring the site.

Kaled.

[rocknbil]

The site is hosted by Yahoo.com which only supports index.html as a default page.

Convince your client to get off this hosting service and onto one that will support .cgi or .pl indexing. If they consider search engine indexing important at all, this should be important to them too. Everyone will be happier (Except Yahoo, that is.)