RE: generating static pages that are not linked to

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferdinand Soethe [mailto:ferdinandapache.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2007 9:03 PM
> To: userforrest.apache.org
> Subject: Re: generating static pages that are not
linked to
> 
> 
> Ross Gardler wrote:
> 
> > Retrieve http://www.
bildungsverein.de/linkmap.html and you will see
> > another link to the "hidden" page. This
page appears in all Forrest
> > generated sites, it is what Forrest uses to as a
list of pages that
> > need to be generated according to site.xml.
> 
> That's what I meant by having an additional sitemap (in
the web master
> sense of the word).
> 
> But this page is not normally linked to from anywhere,
is it? So unless
> you explicitly build a link to it, a visitor or search
engine would
> never "find" it, unless they understood
Forrest.
> 
> Btw: Is this page really needed in the _final site_? In
other words
> could we not eleminate or at least generate it
conditionally?
> 
> Or, as a very simple solution, not sync it?
> 
> Thorsten wrote:
> 
> > The above is as ant target but you can call it
like:
> > forrest site
-Dproject.start-uri=/private/index.html
> 
> That sounds nice and easy. But I assume that it would
also stop all
> hiden pages from being generated once again, right?

I guess are many solutions may or may not fit the job,
webmasters should
therefore probably use a robots.txt to ensure exclusion --
most of the
major search engines will adhere to the rules contained
within.

Gav...