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Is DMOZ still 'active'?
DMOZ is shutting its doors on March 14, 2017. This from an announcement currently on the front page.
There's not been any other public declaration of the reasons. From what I can glean from the ...
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How can I create a list with hyperlinks to files in my website automatically?
If you are using Apache as your webserver, you can use the Options +Indexes directive in a .htaccess file to enable a simple file listing within a directory if no index.html (or other index file, as ...
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Allow directory listing for subdirectories only
Yes if you allowOverride and then add a new web.config file in the folder you want to disable.
So in your parent folder web.config should look like this.
<configuration>
<location path="....
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Google "index of" pages and "Not mobile friendly"
You have done the right thing with the .htaccess -index and the Google message is just informational. Nothing more.
Just let it go and Google will catch up. It will take a while. Search engines are ...
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Make .URL shortcuts into functional links within a Directory Listing
I'm not aware of an Apache specific way to do this "automagically".
However, it's reasonably trivial to script this yourself. You can use the Apache module "mod_rewrite" (in .htaccess) to rewrite ...
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Google indexing Wordpress wp-content directories and all internal files
Fist of all, you should block the indexation through:
robots.txt (using disallow command)
Server file configuration. If you are using Apache, you can deny access to folders/files with .htaccess file ...
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.htaccess (AddIcon AddDescription AddAlt) not working on directory .URL files
but my other .htaccess calls to modify the .URL items aren't working (unlike all the other file types)
Ah, yes, the "problem" is actually with the mod_rewrite code that sends requests for .URL files ...
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Make .URL shortcuts into functional links within a Directory Listing
Putting my solution here for future reference:
Step 1 Drop this in your .htaccess* (this works even in subfolders; I'm using it on a shared hosting package without administrative access, too):
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Blog on subdirectory
Perhaps this is just a misunderstanding of what is intended. Your blog doesn't have to be in a subdirectory, it can just be a link within wordpress. In fact WOrdPress is set up to do exactly what ...
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Should I redirect the directory listing page of a parallel secondary directory to the primary directory?
If there is not site at example.com/services/web-development, you can use a redirect to push anything that accesses that URL to the correct place, maybe also use a sitemap.xml to define what Google ...
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No directory listing index page
This is totally fine from an SEO standpoint.
You're telling the crawlers not to index these "No Index" pages, so that's just what they'll do.
Ideally you would configure the server to return ...
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Google reports mobile issues for directory listing page, will it hurt the rest of my site?
Mobile-issues that affect a single page, affect that page, not the entire site.
However, /domains/.well-known/ presumably doesn't have anything to do with your public facing website anyway? The .well-...
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Google indexing Wordpress wp-content directories and all internal files
The problem is that your server is creating an automatic page for all directories that lists all the files in that directory.
In Apache, this feature is provided by mod_autoindex. If there is no,...
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Is there any real tangible benefit from replacing many one-file directories with many files in one directory?
I would like to know if the current setup is going to give me trouble in the future.
You'll need to compare your setup with the filesystem the server uses and what you already have stored on the ...
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Is there any real tangible benefit from replacing many one-file directories with many files in one directory?
As far as the full URL is concerned, you need to look at it in four parts.
[protocol://domain name][path][file name.extension][parameters]
The ranking of each part is from left to right in ...
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Options for removing listings from unreponsive business directories
Get an attorney to write letters making the request addressed to their legal department. Give them 10 business days to respond or remove the listing. If that does not work, the attorney can file for a ...
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