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andybak · 01-08-2004, 07:11 AM

I have used the BASE HREF=directive in my dynamic site so that pages that appear to be in subfolders (but actually aren't) can point to external images and css files correctly.

This is correct as far as HTML goes and gives no trouble in any tested browsers.

However PHPDig seems to ignore this setting.

If a page that appears to be in a folder called 'news' links to index.html in the root the link will read 'href='index.html' instead of '../index.html'. The base href tag tells the browser to calculate any realtive URLs fron the root rather than from the current folder (which in my case doesn't exist)

The result of this is that PHPDig finds multiple copies of each page. It thinks that index.html is in a subfolder of news and thus spiders a complete duplicate of the whole site.

Up till now I have been using exclusions to get round this but this requires a lot of manual fiddling every time the site is changed.

Is there a solution or is it a bug in PHPDig?

01-08-2004, 07:11 AM	#1
andybak Green Mole Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3	Does PHPDig ignore <base href...? I have used the BASE HREF=directive in my dynamic site so that pages that appear to be in subfolders (but actually aren't) can point to external images and css files correctly. This is correct as far as HTML goes and gives no trouble in any tested browsers. However PHPDig seems to ignore this setting. If a page that appears to be in a folder called 'news' links to index.html in the root the link will read 'href='index.html' instead of '../index.html'. The base href tag tells the browser to calculate any realtive URLs fron the root rather than from the current folder (which in my case doesn't exist) The result of this is that PHPDig finds multiple copies of each page. It thinks that index.html is in a subfolder of news and thus spiders a complete duplicate of the whole site. Up till now I have been using exclusions to get round this but this requires a lot of manual fiddling every time the site is changed. Is there a solution or is it a bug in PHPDig?