On Oct 26, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Michael wrote:
This will be
dependent on your server configuration. Note that
robots.txt works on URL prefixes, so you need a reliable way of
distinguishing plain view hits from other URLs.
I'd just make the example work if the wiki is in the root folder for
the site. That'd be enough to give most people a starting place if
nothing else. And I think you can distinguish the ones that need to be
ignored by the '?' in the URL. Are there any pages that should be
ignored that don't have the '?'?
Every single page will have a ? if you're running without PATH_INFO
support or rewrite rules.
(The meta tags
already tell search engines not to index edit pages
and other special pages, and not to continue spidering from them, but
won't prevent the initial hit to load that page.)
Many search engines ignore those meta tags.
Such as?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)