At the UK Open University we've just launched our open content initiative http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn. Right, that's the plug over, now for the problem...
My site setup is lots of courses with guest access and self-registration/enrolment, and "auto log in as guest" enabled. I've ticked the "opentogoogle" config setting, but in our server logs we can see that the googlebot is getting a 303 error - meaning its getting stuck in some kind of loop.
From reading other forum entries it looks as if I've done everything I should, so what have I messed up? Needless to say the powers that be here are keen that the site is in Google soon, and I'm experiencing the same thing with our internal OU search engine as well.
Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks
Jenny
Firstly CONGRATS on the launch!! 
Secondly, I'm looking at the code and I do indeed see the problem with opentogoogle (capabilities are not loaded for google!) ... Here's the fix! (I filed a bug in the tracker for it too: MDL-7229)
Secondly, I'm looking at the code and I do indeed see the problem with opentogoogle (capabilities are not loaded for google!) ... Here's the fix! (I filed a bug in the tracker for it too: MDL-7229)
Well I've just deployed the fix but it doesn't seem to be working still - the guy who runs our search engine is reporting it still gives 303 errors.
Is it working OK for Moodle.org? Apparently you can see the 303 errors in the server logs, which is more reliable than working out if Google has found something from the Google end
If so, it might just be that I should wait until we've got all the final 1.7 fixes in and try again then.
Jenny
Is it working OK for Moodle.org? Apparently you can see the 303 errors in the server logs, which is more reliable than working out if Google has found something from the Google end
If so, it might just be that I should wait until we've got all the final 1.7 fixes in and try again then.
Jenny
Jenny, you're right, there was one further bug which I fixed last night:
http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/lib/setup.php?r1=1.183&r2=1.184
Googlebot has been happier now on moodle.org for the past 12 hours. (303 -> 200)
Oddly lots of recent posts here have still been showing up in Google Alert for the past few weeks. Perhaps it's via the RSS feeds.
http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/lib/setup.php?r1=1.183&r2=1.184
Googlebot has been happier now on moodle.org for the past 12 hours. (303 -> 200)
Oddly lots of recent posts here have still been showing up in Google Alert for the past few weeks. Perhaps it's via the RSS feeds.
Martin, thanks for the speedy response 
I'll give this a whirl when we next update our servers, so it might be a little while yet, but I'll let you know how it goes.
Jenny
I'll give this a whirl when we next update our servers, so it might be a little while yet, but I'll let you know how it goes.
Jenny