My Drupal Experience Update
It appears that the potential trap in Drupal to which I referred a couple of days ago in this very blog spot may have missed the real cause of the problem. So perhaps I should explain my latest observations.
Just as an aside, I must say that Drupal has definitely grown on me. I would love the time to delve around a little more in the workings to see where I might be able to contribute. Perhaps next year, by which time it will already be quite different anyway I expect.
Anyway, back to my clarrification. I had quickly found error messages in my logs describing a duplicate content alert after a spider visit. As I explained before, this occurred after I used Drupal's capacity to assign multiple (just two in this case) categories to a post.
The error message was quite explicit about finding two separate paths to identical content, so my earlier concerns and conclusion seemed entirely justified. However, I had also configured the Google sitemap module so I am now wondering if that was causing some or part of the problem. I say this having not had any look at the code at all, it's just a hunch I want to explore.
So my earlier warning of a potential trap is on hold until I experiment with this some more. I will post an update when I have new findings. Clearly there is a potential problem with duplicate content errors, but just what setup results in them occurring has to be clarified.
Just as an aside, I must say that Drupal has definitely grown on me. I would love the time to delve around a little more in the workings to see where I might be able to contribute. Perhaps next year, by which time it will already be quite different anyway I expect.
Anyway, back to my clarrification. I had quickly found error messages in my logs describing a duplicate content alert after a spider visit. As I explained before, this occurred after I used Drupal's capacity to assign multiple (just two in this case) categories to a post.
The error message was quite explicit about finding two separate paths to identical content, so my earlier concerns and conclusion seemed entirely justified. However, I had also configured the Google sitemap module so I am now wondering if that was causing some or part of the problem. I say this having not had any look at the code at all, it's just a hunch I want to explore.
So my earlier warning of a potential trap is on hold until I experiment with this some more. I will post an update when I have new findings. Clearly there is a potential problem with duplicate content errors, but just what setup results in them occurring has to be clarified.
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11:30 am
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