Search Engine Optomization questions

[mrshlomi]

I know you are very busy, I just have a few questions, if you could point me in the right direction of forums that already discuss this. I recently set up OSC for a client, and he has come back to me with several problems.

1. Is it possible to turn off session IDs so search engines can crawl the site?

2. We set up the OSC install at http://www.collectablekingdom.com/en/catalog/ and have a page which forwards the index file to the OSC site. The client would like the install be in in the root or in the root/catalog/ is there a simple way of doing this? Would the databse still work after we move the files?

Is there any way to do this easily.

Thank you VERY much for your help

Sidney

[michael_s]

mrshlomi,

1. You do this in the sessions settings. There is an option to kill spider sessions. Make sure it is true, and it will automatically remove SIDs from spider visits.

2. Move the entire install up to the top level dir, then change the paths in the configure.php files to match the new location. It has no effect on the database.

[mrshlomi]

Can I put the catalog folder directly in the root directory? I have three top level folders, contribs, catalog and extras. Do these need to be above the catalog folder?

Where is the configure.php file locted?

Sid

[michael_s]

The only folder needed is /catalog and its tree. The others are not needed. You can take all those files in the catalog tree, and move them up to the document root.

Path to configure.php
/catalog/includes/configure.php