PHP Site SEO

NevNic · May 19, 2012, 5:31am

I have been asked to do some site search engine optimisation.

I am a beginner with php, but reasonably familiar with html.

I have FTP downloaded all of the files to my PC, but I am unable to find the opening landing welcome page. The filename does not appear in the URL.

How can I find out what that file is so that I can work on the html, metatags etc ., update the file and upload it again?

Thank you.

Pen

phphelp · May 19, 2012, 4:44pm

There is some CMS (content management system) set up on this url. You need to get familiar with that CMS, because it is likely that there is a database at the backend, and you’ll need to use admin interface of that CMS for editing website pages and meta tags.

NevNic · May 20, 2012, 8:30am

Thank you for your response.

I have worked with various CMS before but, although it may seem stupid, I cannot see any trace of a CMS or indeed any normal html files in the files I have downloaded to my PC.

Can you give me any pointers as to where to look.

NB FTP details: Host: [****]

Here’s what I get if I try to create a sitemap:

This does mention cms, but I cannot see that in the source FTP

Thank you.

phphelp · May 20, 2012, 3:00pm

This is public forum, so posting your ftp info is not good idea (I deleted this). I also suggest you to change FTP password as soon as possible, since it is likely that Google has already crawled and cached this page with your ftp info.

Url’s like this:

http://www.aquaturfintl2.com/index.php?/la/en/

means that you need to start looking in your code from index.php in the web root. The parameters that identify particular page are included in query string:

?/la/en/

NevNic · May 21, 2012, 11:04am

Well, here is the code from index.php:

<?php /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | PHP ERROR REPORTING LEVEL |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | By default CI runs with error reporting set to ALL. For security | reasons you are encouraged to change this when your site goes live. | For more info visit: http://www.php.net/error_reporting | */ error_reporting(E_ALL); /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | SYSTEM FOLDER NAME |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | This variable must contain the name of your "system" folder. | Include the path if the folder is not in the same directory | as this file. | | NO TRAILING SLASH! | */ $system_folder = "system"; /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | APPLICATION FOLDER NAME |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | If you want this front controller to use a different "application" | folder then the default one you can set its name here. The folder | can also be renamed or relocated anywhere on your server. | For more info please see the user guide: | http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/managing_apps.html | | | NO TRAILING SLASH! | */ $application_folder = "application"; /* |=============================================================== | END OF USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS |=============================================================== */ /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | SET THE SERVER PATH |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | Let's attempt to determine the full-server path to the "system" | folder in order to reduce the possibility of path problems. | Note: We only attempt this if the user hasn't specified a | full server path. | */ if (strpos($system_folder, '/') === FALSE) { if (function_exists('realpath') AND @realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) !== FALSE) { $system_folder = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)).'/'.$system_folder; } } else { // Swap directory separators to Unix style for consistency $system_folder = str_replace("\\", "/", $system_folder); } /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | DEFINE APPLICATION CONSTANTS |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | EXT - The file extension. Typically ".php" | FCPATH - The full server path to THIS file | SELF - The name of THIS file (typically "index.php) | BASEPATH - The full server path to the "system" folder | APPPATH - The full server path to the "application" folder | */ define('EXT', '.'.pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_EXTENSION)); define('FCPATH', __FILE__); define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME)); define('BASEPATH', $system_folder.'/'); if (is_dir($application_folder)) { define('APPPATH', $application_folder.'/'); } else { if ($application_folder == '') { $application_folder = 'application'; } define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/'); } /* |--------------------------------------------------------------- | LOAD THE FRONT CONTROLLER |--------------------------------------------------------------- | | And away we go... | */ require_once BASEPATH.'codeigniter/CodeIgniter'.EXT; /* End of file index.php */ /* Location: ./index.php */ This contains folders system and application, but those folders do not contain th landing files..... Thank you

NevNic · May 24, 2012, 5:26am

Any further advice on this?

It seems that, because of the complexity of the PHP set up, I may be better redeveloping the site from scratch in HTML?