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What causes Exponential to create sessions ?

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Nick Woods	Thursday 01 April 2004 1:09:04 pm I have a site which doesnt require logons. I've noticed that the url will sometimes change to include an 'ezsessid=' parameter, which I assume to be a session id. What causes ezpublsh to allocate a session id in this way ? The site content changes infrequently, only one page has a reference to currentdate() and I sometimes see a session id even if i've not looked at that page
Paul Forsyth	Thursday 01 April 2004 1:19:58 pm PHP creates the sessions. Which version of PHP are you using? I believe the latest versions don't show the session id... paul
Bruce Morrison	Thursday 01 April 2004 3:00:53 pm Hi Nick To get rid of the session variabl from the URL try setting session.use_trans_sid off in php.ini. http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/site_not_being_indexed_by_google_solution Exponential generates sessions every time someone accesses a site. Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
Nick Woods	Friday 02 April 2004 3:28:08 am Thankyou both - I'm using php 4.3.4 and currently session.use_trans_sid is On. I also have the google problem so i hope it will fix both problems
Nick Woods	Monday 05 April 2004 9:47:28 am I've now changed my php.ini settings and am no longer getting session ids in the URL - thanks once again for the help However, google is still only indexing the home page and doesnt appear to be following any links - it last indexed my site after i made the change to php.ini I have <meta name="robots" content="ALL"> on all the pages, which if i undertstand it correctly should cause google to index my site (i got this from http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html) but it doesnt appear to be working Any ideas ?
Tony Wood	Monday 05 April 2004 2:29:19 pm Hi, You should check that your site does not use Javascript for navigation. If your site does use Javascript Googles will not understand this and stop. To test this try running your site on a browsers with JS disabled. If you are running Linux use 'lynx' as this is a great way to test your site. -- tony Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood Vision with Technology Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development Power to the Editor! Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future
Bruce Morrison	Monday 05 April 2004 3:30:42 pm Hi Nick Post the URL of the site in question so we can have a look? Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
Nick Woods	Tuesday 06 April 2004 2:04:23 am Thanks again for the replies The site is http://www.carrotland.co.uk and there isnt any javascript used for navigation - I tried it out with javascript disabled and it worked fine. Google re-indexed it again last night but it still only appears to have looked at the home page.
Bruce Morrison	Tuesday 06 April 2004 4:19:46 pm Hi Nick The following link will let you know what pages from the site are in the google index - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.carrotland.co.uk+inurl:www.carrotland.co.uk It may take a couple of days or weeks for google to "find" the links now you have gotten rid of the session info from the URL and then a couple more for them to actually appear in the search results. The only thing I'd be wary of is that the links contain index.php followed by the page reference. We run our sites with the apache rewrite rule which eliminates this and I'm not sure how google handles these types of links. I would have though they would be OK. Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
Nick Woods	Wednesday 07 April 2004 1:09:37 am Thanks Bruce. Can you tell me what settings you use for the rewrite rule and where you make the change ? This isnt something I've come across before
Bruce Morrison	Wednesday 07 April 2004 5:14:16 am Hi Nick See http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/installation/virtual_host_setup Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
Nick Woods	Wednesday 07 April 2004 5:54:03 am Thanks again Bruce - I'll give this a try. Are those the rewriterule settings that you use ?
Nick Woods	Wednesday 07 April 2004 3:05:47 pm I've made the change and the site appears to work exactly as before exceot that index.php isnt shown any more, so its just a case of waiting for another visit from the googlebot. Thanks once again