Drupal Question
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So on our site we have a plugin for our fan gallery. The issue is that I am getting a lot of duplication errors and it's saying the URL is too long and all the errors are coming from the Fan Gallery, which has over 8,000 errors. It seems to be pulling a long form query URL that has over 100 characters. You can't physically see it on the site, but the crawlers can.
Anyway I'm trying to figure out a fix for this. One method would be to just stop those pages from being crawled, but I would hate to do that as the fan gallery for us would be a great source of links and content.
So I'm wondering if anyone else has had an issue with these types of plugins before where the user can upload a photo or do a video embed and then it submits to the site.
If you have a better method please let me know. I usually work on E-comm platforms so my experience with drupal is limited.
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Well, we're using drupal also and had the same problem, we fixed it by making a custom view with some custom paths that we're smaller for example:
previously: http://www.domain.com/news/typeofnews/paperback/issue-20-august-2011/itemtitle1/
(as you can imagine the titles could be large)Now: http://www.domain.com/news/20-09-2012/title
Maybe this is possible for u also ?
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Hi Kate,
Looking at the URL string there I see both Pressflow and Pantheon variables being passed. It looks like the platform is in the way. I would suggest sending an email to the folks at Pantheon and/or Pressflow to get some help. I'm not sure what your technical expertise is, but Pressflow is a flavor of Drupal and Pantheon is a hosting service for Drupal. They appear to be adding variables to the URL, which probably isn't necessary.
Just my guess.
John
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Thanks,
Subfolders. I have a few URL's with over a 100 characters because of what things are named, but then it pulls up this really long query string like this:
URL/welcome-new-raywjcom?PRESSFLOW_SETTINGS=%7B%22conf%22%3A%7B%22pressflow_smart_start%22%3Atrue%2C%22pantheon_binding%22%3A%22e92472919be14d0b93b8d8ccd2e6b8c1%22%2C%22pantheon_site_uuid%22%3A%22da9acf76-5d3a-4fab-8c70-bb1e73cbe931%22%2C%22pantheon_environment%22%
and that's only a portion of it it keeps going on and on after that. Which is why I was thinking just to block it for now.
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Is it the actual query that is over 100 characters or is it a long URL with lot's of subfolders that is causing it to be so long? If the latter, then maybe you should try to start over again and put the gallery closest to the root.
If this can't be done I would look into other plugins, Drupal can be buggy as heck with plugins and the issue might be isolated to that plugin. I would try to fix that and wouldn't consider blocking those pages as more than a temporary option to protect the site while this is being looked at.
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