Weblog question

#1 / Jul 25, 2010 8:54am

Ramya108
123 posts

I am quite new to Expression Engine and it looks like I have made a mistake while implementing weblogs.

I have built my website blog in the following way:

This page contains list of blog entries, including blog title, summary and a link to the full blog:
http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/blog

The full blog entry can be reached by clicking on its link, or by choosing an article in the list of categories, which are in the right column.

I published all of my blogs in the /clanak/article/ template, by adding a weblog title, full text and comment tags.

Everything seemed to work perfectly, until I started seeing this page in the Search Engine results:

http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/article/

On this page you can see the endless list of all of my weblog entries, one after another. Not only that, searh engines somehow started to index non-existing pages, but all leading to the same page with endless entries. For example, I have never created this page:

http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/article/citrofit.html

but it got indexed by the search engines and now appears in the search results!

This is a mess!!! Please help me!
#2 / Jul 25, 2010 11:32am
Boyink!
5011 posts
I think you just need to add some 404 handling.

First - start by creating a 404 template - something to show when the request isn’t valid.

Then on Strict URLs and specify the 404 template in
http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/cp/templates/global_template_preferences.html

Then - add 404 logic to the single entry (article) template by adding the require_entry=“yes” to the weblog:entries tag.

Then put a if no results conditional inside the tag.

Then to the top of that same template - before any other code - add:
```
{if segment_3 ==""}
  {redirect="404"}
{/if}
```
This should ensure that the articles template is only ever loaded in single entry form (with a url title in segment 3), and with a valid URL showing.
#3 / Jul 25, 2010 1:36pm

Ramya108
123 posts

Wow! Thank you very much!

#4 / Jul 25, 2010 4:41pm

Ramya108

123 posts

Tried to implement it and it does not work! I dont understand where the problem might be.

1. Created a custom 404 page
2. Enabled strict urls and added the custom page.
3. Added requre_entry and no_results to the template
4. Added this code: {if segment_3 ==""}
{redirect="404"}
{/if}

Still not functioning and I do not know why. Here is my template:

{if segment_3 ==""}
  {redirect="404"}
{/if}  
{embed="embeds/html_header" my_title="{exp:weblog:entries weblog="clanak"}{title}{/exp:weblog:entries}"}


<body id="subpage">
[removed][removed]

<div class="wrap_all">
    <div id="top">

      <div id="head"> 
       {embed="embeds/logo_title"}
        {embed="embeds/main_nav"}    
           </div><!-- end head-->
        
        <div id="main">

             
      <div id="content" class="bg_sidebar">
           <div id="inner_content">
            <div class="entry">



{exp:hop_inject where="<p>"}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="clanak" require_entry=“yes”  limit="1" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
{if no_results}
{redirect="404"}
{/if}    

 <h2>{title}</h2>

<p>{exp:hop_inject:injection separator="3" position="before"}</p>

<p><div>[removed]<!--<br />
google_ad_client = "pub-2093185670253746";<br />
google_ad_host = "pub-2606800903002383";<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";<br />
google_ad_type = "text";<br />
google_ad_channel = "";<br />
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";<br />
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";<br />
google_color_link = "0000FF";<br />
google_color_text = "FFFFFF";<br />
google_color_url = "FFFFFF";<br />
google_ui_features = "rc:6";<br />
//--> [removed] [removed] [removed] </div>  </p>

<p><br />
{/exp:hop_inject:injection}</p>

<p><div class="entry-content"><div class="aligncenter"></div><br />
            <br />
{body}   </p>

<p>  </div><!--end entry-content--></p>

<p><br />
  {/exp:weblog:entries} </p>

<p>{/exp:hop_inject}</p>

<p><br />
   <a href="http://{path=clanak/blog}">Povratak na Blog</a>    </p>

<p> </p>

<p> </p>

<p> </p>

<p> </p>

<p>{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="0"}<br />
<div class="entry-content"></p>

<h6>Komentar</h6>
<p></div></p><blockquote>
<p> <br />
{comment}</p>

</blockquote>
<p><span class="comments">By {name} on {comment_date format="%d.%m.%Y"}</span></p>

<p><br />
{/exp:comment:entries}</p>



<p> </p>

<p> </p>

<h4>Komentiraj</h4>

<p> </p>

<p>{exp:comment:form weblog="clanak" preview="clanak/comment_preview"}</p>

<p>{if logged_out}</p>

<p>Ime:     <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" size="20" /></p></p>

<p>E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" size="20" /></p></p>

<p><br />
{/if}</p>

<p><br />
<textarea name="comment" cols="52" rows="13">{comment}</textarea><br />
<a path='site/smilies'>Smajlići</a></p>

<p><input type="checkbox" name="save_info" value="yes" {save_info} /> Zapamti me!</p>

<p><input type="checkbox" name="notify_me" value="yes" {notify_me} /> Primaj obavijesti o novim komentarima</p>

<p>{if captcha}</p>

<p>Molim Vas, ispod upišite znakove, koje vidite na slici:</p>

<p>{captcha}</p>

<p><input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" maxlength="20" /></p></p>

<p>{/if}</p>

<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Pošalji" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="preview" value="Pregled" /></p>

<p>{/exp:comment:form}</p>

<p><br />
                       <br />
            </div><!--end entry--><br />
            <br />
        <br />
    <br />
           </div><!-- end inner_content--></p>

<p>           <br />
           {embed="embeds/sidebar1"}<br />
                <br />
            <br />
          <br />
          </div><!-- end content-->   <br />
                 <br />
  </div><!--end main--><br />
        <br />
        <br />
{embed="embeds/footer"}</p>

<p>        <br />
    </div><!--end top--><br />
</div><!--end wrapp_all--></p>

<p></body></p>

<p></html>

#5 / Jul 25, 2010 5:32pm

Ramya108
123 posts

Ok, what I achieved is that when I try to reach http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/article/ page I get my custom 404 page. This is good.

However, when some wrong url is typed, I still get my http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/article/ page.

How can I set some redirect for the wrong url in the section 3?
#6 / Jul 25, 2010 5:46pm

Boyink!
5011 posts

The only thing I see that might be wrong is the quotes around require_entry=“yes”. Make sure they are straight quotes and not smart quotes.
#7 / Jul 25, 2010 6:42pm

Ramya108
123 posts

Uh! You were right!

I changed the quotes and now everything works like a charm.

Thank you very much for your help and for your TrainEE site, which I was using to learn EE! 😊 😊 😊
#8 / Jul 25, 2010 6:55pm

Boyink!
5011 posts

Cool..get lucky once in a while…;)

Thanks for the comments on Train-ee - it’s always good to know the site is useful.
#9 / Jul 26, 2010 2:03am

John Henry Donovan
12339 posts

Glad Mike was able to help. Closing this one out. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.

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