GT in subfolders

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:34 am

Currently my site uses GT, and the website works fine. Now waiting for Google robots to come Smile

However, I do have one concern. I'm not using my own server, I bought space from phpwebhosting.com. They allow multiple domains for one account. So, I just put my websites in different directories. Eg. www.domain1.com goes to /domain1, www.domain2.com goes to /domain2, etc. To manage that, in the root dir I put an index.php, which detects the HOST_NAME and then redirects to the appropriate dirs.

www.domain1.com redirects to www.domain1.com/domain1
www.domain2.com redirects to www.domain2.com/domain2
et.

I installed PHPNuke in one of the domain. After seing GT, I install it immediately, since I want my website to be indexed by Google.

Now, my concern is, will Google index my website, with the configuration above? I mean, if the Google robots come to www.domain1.com, will they follows the redirects to www.domain1.com/domain1?

If not, I already have Plan B. I can create another .htaccess file in the root dir, which looks like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?([^\.]*)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %2 =domain1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain1/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?([^\.]*)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %2 =domain2 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain2/$1 [L]

Or better:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?([^\.]*)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %2/$1 [L]

But I'm sure it will add additional process in the server (read: slower response).

So, should I use the .htaccess file to make sure Google index my website, or I can be assured that Google robots will follow the redirects?

Thanks

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Hi'ya basically you need to think of each site as their own entity. So long as you setup both as if you only had one, you will be fine. Its how all my nuke sites work here. No problems.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:02 pm

My question is more towards the capability of the robots. Will they follow redirects? Since my index.php will redirect the robots to the correct directories, will they follow, or will they give up and stop at index.php?