All,

Ever wonder why when calling fatbomb you had to always put the extra "/" before the "?" mark like:

fatbomb.cgi/?keywords=atlanta

If you don't do this, your request gets redirected to your fatbomb.cgi index page.

I got used to this quickly and adjusted my skins and I though all was well.

Recently I noticed that in my server logs that altavista and yahoo were referring surfers to the following types of addresses:

www.bonose.com/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi?keywords=atlanta

instead of

www.bonose.com/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi/?keywords=atlanta

This caused everyone to go to the index page which was not desired.

Well, I finally sat down and figured out a fix for this. If you want it, it is very easy to make. Here are the instructions:

Edit the file: fatbomb_install_dir/lib/Gamma/Script.pm

Line 30 by default should look like:
$path .= 'default' if $path =~/\/$/;

Add an extra line following it as line 31:
$path .= '/default' if $path =~/^$/;

Now you should have the following:
Line 30: $path .= 'default' if $path =~/\/$/;
Line 31: $path .= '/default' if $path =~/^$/;

This seems to fix the problem for me. Hopefully, I'll start seeing a few more PPC conversions on these searches.

Take care,
Bo

Bo...that's very odd. I'm seeing 404's but there mostly calls to the faulty CPanel scripts where wannabe hackers are trying to gain access to the server...

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Bo,

I might doing something wrong - as always, lol - but on the bottom of the results page, there's the links to next pages:

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After changing the Script.pm file as you recommended, I noticed that the links do not show up correctly:

ht-tp://my_bomb_site_com/cgi-bin/fatbomb/?skin=&keywords=las%20vegas&start=20&length=20

There supposed to be "fatbomb.cgi" after the directory "fatbomb", but missing.

Again, I might doing something wrong, but any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks much,

I just found the answer here:

http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID24/21.html

Chris (Poker) posted this:

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Look in the "deafult-results.html" at the very end it should look like this:

{% else %}
<a href="/cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi/?skin={% form.skin as url %}. . . . . . .]</a>{% end %}

Obviously replace /cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi with the path to your file. And remember I put the "curly brackets" in above for the forum. They are really square brackets.

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so I believe, if anybody here wants to use Bo's modification, should use:

{% else %}
<a href="/cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi?skin={% form.skin as url %}. . . . . . .]</a>{% end %}

just remove forward slash after "fatbomb.cgi".

Correct me if I'm wrong, and thanks much for reading this!