Name used to identify different files.
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3answers
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Is it worth it to change my entire user images file structure to take advantage of simple browser caching?
On one of my mobile sites, I simply store my user's profile images as '1.jpg' in their user folder, and incrementally go from there for any extra pics they upload. This means that whenever they change ...
7
votes
3answers
433 views
What should filenames and URLs of images contain for SEO benefit?
We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:
example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
...
5
votes
3answers
169 views
Organizing website files
I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.
http://website.com/directory/webpage - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to ...
4
votes
6answers
670 views
Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?
We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as product.cfm?id=42 but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be ...
4
votes
2answers
139 views
Confirm if trailing slash is acceptable for a file, rather than a directory
I have been reading on here and Google results for a few hours now including this question and the links therein and many others. Including a URI building styleguide from the w3c and others.
I have ...
3
votes
3answers
72 views
Convenient practice for where to place images?
A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:
/i/img/
/images/
/img/
Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename ...
3
votes
2answers
108 views
How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO
I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors
I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared ...
3
votes
2answers
143 views
How to name image files in multi language site?
I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example.
What would be the proper convention to name image files?
From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name ...
2
votes
2answers
923 views
URL rewrite - should I write a fake file suffix (.html) or something more realistic to the platform? (like .asp or .cfm)
First, I'd like to preface this question by stating that I insist upon publishing a file name suffix, but only on the outer most entity of our site, the detail pages. I do realize the suffix is not ...
2
votes
1answer
40 views
How to have my customized extension?
I have recently found a .htaccess trick in which I can remove file extension from the URL, example.com/file.html looks like example.com/file
Now my humor says that I can replace any extension to my ...
2
votes
1answer
228 views
Folder naming convention in a web development
I'm just wondering whether it would be appropriate/acceptable to use the following folder naming convention within a website development?
For folders which the end users will see as part of the URL:
...
1
vote
1answer
551 views
Download Link for Custom File Type
I have a client that wants to make their products firmware files available for download on their website. The firmware files have a custom extension: .bi2. The client wants the files to be downloaded ...
1
vote
1answer
94 views
Nouns as FILENAMES: singar or plural form?
Dear folks, two scenarios where FILE_NAMES.PHP should be best representing the audiences searching for it.
/poster.php
/design.php
OR
/posters.php
/designs.php
Q1. What do you ...
1
vote
2answers
43 views
sitemap.xml file extension, does it have to be .xml?
Do XML sitemap files have to end with the .xml file extension?
On the Bigcommerce platform, their XML sitemap file are defined as:
http://www.examplesite.com/xmlsitemap.php
The sitemap file is ...
1
vote
2answers
95 views
Change name of audio file for download
I have some mp3 files which are named "my-audio.mp3" but now the client wants the visitor to be able to download and save these files to their desktop. He doesn't like the name with the hyphen and ...
1
vote
1answer
475 views
Include number and date in Apache log file names
I'm trying to figure out how to include the current date and the IP number of the current host inside the Apache log file names, but I fail how to see how I can do that. Part of that has to do with ...
1
vote
0answers
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FileZilla: Can upload to directory from one computer but not another [migrated]
I am having issues uploading a file to a particular directory on my site (LAMP). The directories permissions are 777. The odd thing is it works fine on one machine (same file) but not on a another.
...
0
votes
1answer
171 views
Apache log analytic's
Been trying for a while to get this script fully working I think I'm nearly there.
Ok so I basically need the script to show 3 things, email address - Browser type - Time logged in.
...
0
votes
0answers
79 views
PHP variable not recognized inside an if statement [closed]
I will be using this variable for changing the name of a file upload so it is the business id of a user.
At first I thought it was something wrong with the name changing part but for some reason I ...
0
votes
1answer
44 views
SEO - File naming [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Hi
For the file name "mission-and-vision.htm" or "mission_and_vision.htm", which one is good for SEO(separator "-" or "_")?
Thanks
