[ic] Area tag and directories

[Jamie Neil]

Hi All,

I've just been looking at the urls used for linking in to one of our 
sites, and noticed that while externally most links to the homepage are 
in the form:

   http://www.oursite.com/

all the internal links are:

   http://www.oursite.com/index.html

"So what?" I hear you say. Well although this doesn't cause navigation 
problems, I have a feeling that Google (and maybe other engines) treat 
/index.html and / as different pages as far as ranking is concerned, 
which means that potentially we are missing a trick.

At the moment if you use a directory in the area tag you get this:

   [area href="directory/"] = /directory/.html

I know there is a cfg option to specify the page suffix for a catalog 
(HTMLsuffix), but what I wanted to be able to do is switch off the 
suffix selectively for directories. e.g.:

   [area href="page"] = /page.html

   [area href="directory/"] = /directory/

That way we could do all internal links to the homepage like this:

   [area href=""] = /

The code change should be fairly simple - just match pages with a 
trailing "/" (or the null page) and leave off the suffix - I just can't 
seem to find the code that deals with it. Can anyone point me in the 
right direction?

Thanks,

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Jamie Neil | <jamie at versado.net> | 0870 7777 454
Versado I.T. Services Ltd. | http://versado.net/ | 0845 450 1254