Hello.
I'm creating a dynamic PHP/MySQL website, where one script basically loads all the pages (index.php by default). After reading that search engines don't like URL's with ?-s and =-s in them, I decided to mask it.
Unfortunately our server doesn't support custom .htaccess file modifications, so I'm forced to use the call-back method (eg. index.php/something1/something2/). Unfortunately this doesn't look so nice eighter and problems have been reported with this method, but since our server supports PHP files without extension, I can make it look like that after the redirection from index.php - www.mysite.com/content/page_5 where "content" is actually the script without extension. Redirection is done because I can't make the extensionless file the index.
So my question is that will the search engines index this page correctly if the URL www.something.com will lead to index www.something.com/content/ ? Redirecting is done with PHP's header function, not with META. Will the spiders register the original address or redirected address?
EDIT: After posting the topic I got an idea- what if I dublicate the content retrieval script- one for index ("index.php") and other for subpages (extensionless file "content")? Then no redirect has to be done when visiting the home-page.
Thanks.
