[jjj0923]

I installed this hack and a fine one it is.

I have mod_rewrite turned on in my apache server because I have a rewrite rule that keeps people from stealing my bandwidth and serving images from my site on their sites...

I installed the hack as instructed and embedded a link to /archive in my home page in the hopes that spiders would pick it up and follow it, I also visited the major search engines and submitted a new url ending with /archive...but JUST TO BE SAFE... I wrote a rule and some conditions that would insure spiders (the one's I know visit my site from my logs) would DEFINATELY spider the new html generated pages and here's how I did it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)googlebot(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)slurp(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)scooter(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)webcrawler(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)surveybot(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)mercator(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/upload/archive [R=302]

Of course you would subsitute www.yourdomain.com with your domain name and substitute 'upload' with the directory name that contains 'archive' on your system.

I installed the hack yesterdaty and visits from slurp today are getting redirected to the archive generated pages.

Thanks for a great hack.