Changing extension

SubJunk

Hi guys,
Just a quick question, I'm sure it's easy.
Currently the image page is being renamed by mod_rewrite to end in the .jpg extension. I'd like it to be rewritten to a different one (like .html or .php) so that Google sees it as a page instead of an image (in other words so that it sees it correctly), how would I do that?
Thanks

SubJunk

Surely it would be easy to do? The problem is that search engines - rightly - don't see .jpg extensions as pages, so when the rewrite rule calls a page .jpg instead of .php, which is what it was originally of course, it isolates all image pages. By image pages I don't mean the full sized images, I mean the page generated by image.php.

DarrellD

Well, I tried to play with it this morning (although I have no experience with mod_rewrite) but I couldn't figure it out. Just be patient, someone on here who knows might be able to help you out.

SubJunk

Okay cool, thanks for trying anyway GameDudeX

SubJunk

Just bumping this, can someone please try? I would be so grateful!

SubJunk

I can pay someone to do it? Is there anyone here who can do it if I pay them, or do you know of anyone you can refer me to?

trisweb

Wow, I never thought of that problem with search engines... I'll look into generalizing the URL output so you can change it to whatever you want.

SubJunk

That would be great, thanks ASAP would be good, you can email or message me with what you expect as payment. I really appreciate it.

jayray999

Is this at all relevant?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34431

trisweb

Could be, but I think SubJunk is right, they probably won't even consider .jpg url's as pages at all. We should have some way to put something after the .jpg, like .html or .php or .anythingyouwant. :-)

Would that work SubJunk? And no payment required, I don't take bribes ;-) I'll do it for the project because I think it's necessary and useful. If you feel you want to donate, feel free to do so at any time using the link on the front page. :-)

SubJunk

That's perfect. I think Google will recognize "page.jpg.html". You're a humble man!

SubJunk

Don't mean to be pushy, but do you have any estimation of when it will be done?

trisweb

Don't mean to be pushy, but no, I do not. :-)

trisweb

Checked into SVN, http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/changeset/365

It'll be in 1.0.8 in a week or less, before then you're welcome to use SVN code, it's fairly stable right now.

Here's the new config entry:

`// If mod_rewrite is true above, zenphoto's image page URL's usually end in .jpg,

// set this if you want something else appended to the end (helps search engines).

// Examples: .html, .php, /view, etc.

// Note that you shouldn't name albums with this suffix on the end.

$conf['mod_rewrite_image_suffix'] = '';`

trisweb

There's an SVN test gallery up here with some cool sub-albums and this new image-page-url suffix feature, check it out:

http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/
http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/January-at-Home/Roses/
http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/January-at-Home/P1070087.JPG.html
http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/Random/Yosemite/yosemite_03XL.jpg.html

This new version is super stable and fast, I'm liking it a lot.

Oh, also, the way I did the path suffix, it's "backwards-compatible" with any previous links to the image page. So both of these work, even though the latter is now used in the gallery links.

http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/Random/Yosemite/yosemite_03XL.jpg
http://www.trisweb.com/tests/zenphoto-svn/Random/Yosemite/yosemite_03XL.jpg.html

So all of you with large galleries and lots of links to them need not worry if you want to add a suffix, just do it! It's good for search engines :-)

SubJunk

Cool! Thanks. How does this SVN thing work? Do I copy the code from http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/changeset/365 into the 1.0.7 code? Are the numbers on the left the line numbers?

SubJunk

That was a stupid question, figured it out

trisweb

SVN is a package deal, you have to get the whole thing with an SVN client like this:

`svn export http://www.zenphoto.org/svn/trunk zenphoto`

SubJunk

Oh okay, well I just downloaded the zip of the 3 files on that page and replaced them with the existing ones and the .jpg.html thing works. Thanks