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Question about site structure

Started by CarLBanks, October 14, 2004, 02:42:07 PM

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CarLBanks

Why does my site have .html on the end of urls? Here at SMF it looks different, where can I change my site structure.

Winters

#1
I'm guessing that your site is coded in HTML (or XHtml), like mine. It's static. HTML is not really a programming language, it's markup.

The smf website is dynamic, which in this case means it is coded with php, a more advanced programming language (and makes use of a database). The php ending lets the respective (php) module of the server know that it has to process the commands.

This forum, like all modern forums, is dynamic and uses php and a database.   

ETA: This is very basic, I'm sure others can and will explain it much better!

CarLBanks

#2
I thought I told it to do php and mysql. I run WordPress on php and mysql.

How do I make it dynamic?

Winters

#3
Well, then it probably has a modification to show the sites as html (even if they are not), as it is (or at least used to be) better for search engine indexing. Until recently, google didn't index dynamic sites.

Or maybe I'm totally off-base!

ETA: Wordpress definitely IS a dynamic system, don't worry! It just gives out static urls.

CarLBanks

#4
Hmm, could how the theme was coded be part of it?

Edit: It probably doesn't matter which way it's coded.

[Unknown]

You have enabled the option to show urls without ?s - also known as "queryless URLs".

-[Unknown]

CarLBanks

Ahh thank you, I somehow missed that option.

I apologize for not seeing the option.

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