Ken Shafer's Bloggity-Blog » Coding http://shaferdesigns.com SEO, Social Media and General Web Designs Stuffs Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:16:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mod_Rewrite for GoDaddy and WordPress http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/ http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:10:55 +0000 Ken Shafer http://shaferdesigns.com/?p=77 Maya is Driving

I didn't know what image to use for this post

Back in 2008 I posted an article about getting mod_rewrite working on a GoDaddy account. I thought it’d be a good time to update that information with another example. This time we’re going to be looking at making some changes on a GoDaddy account with a WordPress installation.

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Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^DirectoryName/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) pagename.php?paramB=$2&paramC=$3paramA=$1

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
DirectoryIndex index.php

Options +FollowSymLinksOptions -MultiViewsRewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^attorneys/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) practice.php?geo=$2&pa=$3&state=$1
# BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule>
# END WordPress
DirectoryIndex index.php

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This implementation takes this: “domain.com/pagename.php?paramB=Y&paramC=ZparamA=X”
and turns it into “domain.com/DirectoryName/X/Y/Z ”

I like this set up since it fits in with my normal WordPress url structure. Just make sure that you pick a directory name that isn’t going to be used within WordPress.

Also, notice that the custom rules are inserted before the usual WordPress rules. This was the only way I was able to get it to work.

Hope this helps! Just let me know if you have any questions at all.

]]> http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/feed/ 0 Skittles Sitelinks Update http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/skittles-sitelinks-update/ http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/skittles-sitelinks-update/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:10:21 +0000 Ken Shafer http://shaferdesigns.com/?p=34 Skittles has finally fixed their IE sitelinks problem.

Now their homepage is the Wikipedia page. Wins the award for most annoying navigation evar!

Makes Hulk want to smash rainbow!!!

]]> http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/skittles-sitelinks-update/feed/ 0 Skittles Fails The Sitelink Rainbow http://shaferdesigns.com/social-media/skittles-fails-the-sitelink-rainbow/ http://shaferdesigns.com/social-media/skittles-fails-the-sitelink-rainbow/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:12:58 +0000 Ken Shafer http://shaferdesigns.com/?p=36 Do a search for “skittles” in Google using IE.

None of the sitelinks work. They all redirect in Firefox and Chrome.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

UPDATE: I did a little digging and it looks like their 404 page isn’t firing in IE. I used Tamper Data in FF and right after you click on one of the sitelinks it successfully launches
Content-Location=http://www.skittles.com/404.htm?404;http://www.skittles.com:80/products/index.jsp.

Then it eventually makes it’s way to
Content-Location=http://www.skittles.com/default.htm

Using HTTPWatch in IE, you never get to the 404 page.

+ 0.000 0.376 1066 503 GET 302 Redirect to http://www.skittles.com/fun/index.jsp http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.skittles.com/fun/index.jsp&ei=EXytSeqfI4yRngfFzeW_Bg&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=2&usg=AFQjCNFBsnbVEMPDmMqs_1qjSwNl19tWSg

+ 0.377 0.017 0 0 GET (Cache) text/html http://www.skittles.com/fun/index.jsp

0.395 1066 503 2 requests

My question is why is it going to the 404 at all? Why not just have the pages work? Is it a function of using Facebook to run everything?

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