TfSEO 2: the free vBulletin url rewrite

[MTGDarkness]

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

That happens on every page with this enabled. What do I do?

[superjeff]

I will relase the 3.8 version of this during the next week, i will include the bugfix and the feature added, i hope you will like it.

[James Argo]

I will relase the 3.8 version of this during the next week, i will include the bugfix and the feature added, i hope you will like it.

Couldn't wait for you to release it Jeff :)

This add on is the only reason for me NOT to upgrade to 3.8 series so far. I'm glad you finally decide to release 3.8 version soon! :) Kudos & many thanks!!! :cool:

[mattltm]

Great news. I have been having withdrawal symptoms since I moved to 3.8. Keep up the good work.

[James Argo]

I will relase the 3.8 version of this during the next week, i will include the bugfix and the feature added, i hope you will like it.

Any news? I checked this thread everyday mate... :D

Waiting forward for ver 3.8 release :)

[superjeff]

I'm sorry if i haven't updated you sooner, i will do this update as soon as possible, and i hope to do it first of the ena of the week :) But please don't lose time chekking this every day.. :)

[abdobasha2004]

Note: vbulletin will have by default a rewrite system from version 4.0 (beta should coming next month, april). I relly suggest you to wait, and not use this product. If the vb's rewrite will be great, i will no more update this product.
they are sooo late

[alifatih]

when i click forum, its go to forum index. please help me.

[wsdeluxe]

any update on the 3.8 release? :)

[Skierpetros]

any update on 3.8?

[James Argo]

I believe Jeff is doing his best for 3.8 by now.

Keep waiting and hoping :)

[Blade-uk]

Any update? I'm on 3.8 and need this.

Andy

[Krieg]

I juste wanted to suscribe so as to get updates ;)

[James Argo]

*Subscribed*

There is so many link / page created using this mod in my site. I'm not gonna update to 3.8 until I'm sure this TFSEO has been updated to 3.8.

Go Jeff go!!! :cool: :up:

[Gene Steinberg]

*Subscribed*

There is so many link / page created using this mod in my site. I'm not gonna update to 3.8 until I'm sure this TFSEO has been updated to 3.8.

Go Jeff go!!! :cool: :up:

While it would be nice to know what's happening, I've had no problems with this product and VB 3.8.

Peace,
Gene

[James Argo]

While it would be nice to know what's happening, I've had no problems with this product and VB 3.8.

Peace,
Gene

Thanks Mr Steinberg, :)

Do you mean current version works good in 3.8 ? I haven't tested yet. Please let us know the detail. I look forward to update to 3.8 ASAP.

Thanks! :up:

[Gene Steinberg]

Thanks Mr Steinberg, :)

Do you mean current version works good in 3.8 ? I haven't tested yet. Please let us know the detail. I look forward to update to 3.8 ASAP.

Thanks! :up:

Precisely. I am using it on the following forums.

http://forum.theparacast.com

http://forum.techbroadcasting.com

http://forum.rockoids.com

The first is our most active. I saw no change in performance or compatibility with TFSEO 2.1 when I went to 3.8. As you can see from the footers, they're at 3.8.2 now.

Peace,
Gene

[James Argo]

Precisely. I am using it on the following forums.

http://forum.theparacast.com

http://forum.techbroadcasting.com

http://forum.rockoids.com

The first is our most active. I saw no change in performance or compatibility with TFSEO 2.1 when I went to 3.8. As you can see from the footers, they're at 3.8.2 now.

Peace,
Gene

Perfect! :)

I'm gonna do some testing tonight. If nothing fancy happens, then I'll do the update ASAP. Thanks alot for your info Mr Steinberg! :) :up:

Regards,
;)
Jaymz

[Blade-uk]

Will every link have f16 etc... at the end of it?

Andy

[James Argo]

Will every link have f16 etc... at the end of it?

Andy

I believe it's there for our own sake :) We still need forum ID to do moderation... :)

[CloneVince]

*Installed* but I had to modify the .htaccess

*Waiting for the 3.8 version with more options* *hope*

[ITNM]

I mark as Installed because it's work great but only in vBadvance Does not work perfectly :)

here I've attach you the image of the problem :erm: on the recent Threads :)
Hope an update come very soon :)
Edit: I've solve the problem, you just have to disable the TfSEO vBadvanced Plugin
Hope it's work for you guys! :)

[lucalucius]

How is possible to edit .htaccess file to delete from the url structure the forum id?

Best regards

[monkeywarplane]

Hey guys,

I searched the thread, but I couldn't find anything referencing my problem about linking to specific posts (or going to "last post") which doesn't work on my forum and is a huge hassle for really large threads for members to navigate/follow. For example:

http://forums.interbasket.net/f18/anybody-else-having-problems-8576/post284224.html

I am running TfSEO 1.1.4 (Light URL-Rewrite with other little SEO customization) - Any help would be appreciated.

Stuart

[eric8476]

Help! Admincp and forum url are showing this:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_tfseo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxx/html/includes/functions_tfseo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxxxx/html/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 3

[eric8476]

I deleted the files, uploaded them in the directories where the error messages showed and the forum and admincp are ok.

[MatijaCRO]

Hello!

I am interested in how to Croatian characters such as Š (uppercase) to rewrite S?

Small letter š is transformed into s, while Š in -.

Thank you!

[djlotus]

The site is http://www.xbattles.net. Every one of my articles in vBdynamics, has had its URL permanently re-written. I cant even access the article categories. I have completely uninstalled the hack and overwritten the supplied htaccess file with my original, and still no change to the URL's on my articles section.

As it stands I can not access any article I have written in the life of the articles section.

Sorry for the sour tone of my last post, but imagine my frustration when I realized I could not access the heart and soul of my site.

I posted this long ago, and am still awaiting some kind of response. SuperJeff, is there a way for me to fix this issue or not?

[NeDra]

I posted this long ago, and am still awaiting some kind of response. SuperJeff, is there a way for me to fix this issue or not?

Are you sure that url rewrite is added as a module in your php file and that url rewrite work?
Did you do a test to ensure that url rewrite is working?

I mean he's tool work fine for me, so for it to not work for you, there must be something?
What version of php are you using?
Can you do a test of a simple url rewrite?

[djlotus]

I had this installed as per directions. I had a conflict with vBdynamics so I uninstalled the mod as per directions. Non of the URL's changed. They all are still rewritten as they were by this mod. Do you suggest I reinstall this mod and try again? Did I maybe miss something on the uninstall?

[NeDra]

No idea, but what I mean is if url rewrite is installed create a new rule that redirect
http://www.mysite.com/urlrewrite/index.html
to
http://www.mysite.com/index.html
just to test that the url rewrite mod actually work.

If it doesn't work, it just obvious that having all your url modified with this tool will make your forum unaccessible.

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^urlrewrite/index.html$ /index.html

Just a simple test to make sure that the url rewrite work, if it does work, please confirm what option do you use inside the tool?
If it doesn't work, I can't really help you, google is your friend and get it to work.
As soon as it work, you can give it a shot and retry this addon.

[djlotus]

My forum is accessible. The articles that were posted while having this mod installed have become inaccessible after having this mod uninstalled. The url's to the articles did not default back to original after mod was installed. I am inquiring if the author of the mod or anyone else can advise me on how to fix the issue, if in fact, it is fixable.

[NeDra]

oh, now I understand the issue hum >.<
Talk about an issue... I though you wanted to use this mod instead.

Try to install the mod but to disactivate it for it to not be working, see if it will do a quick fix.
If that doesn't help, you will need to look inside the code to figure it out...

You don't have backup of the code I guess...

[djlotus]

Back up of which code?

I have reinstalled vBulletin, vBadvanced, and vBdynamics, and it did not help. I still have my original downloaded version of this mod, just not uploaded on my server.

[sheep92032]

Are you serious? I'm not installing a mod just because someone can't be bothered to say what it does..

[nick-harper]

I still cant get it to go to the latest post when I am on the forum home, how would I fix this?

[southie]

any updates or news for this script ?

[djlotus]

This hack is garbage, and so is the "support" offered by it's author.

[Gene Steinberg]

This hack is garbage, and so is the "support" offered by it's author.

Sad. He said he would have a 3.8-savvy version and that's months ago.

Evidently, the lad decided school work or real life was far more important than fixing the problems.

Peace,
Gene

[sectomy]

i got the error message 1 time over the forum index:

implode() [function.implode]: Argument to implode must be an array. in [path]/includes/functions_forumlist.php(393) : eval()'d code (Zeile 12)

any ideas ?
mysqli change give me a white page .... and it worked all the time, but now i got this error message and didnt changed anything.

ideas ?

[koko10ar]

Hi,

can tfseo use with Vbadvanced?
Because i can't running vbadvanced with tfseo installed.

Regards!

(sorry for my english!)

[koko10ar]

Hi,

can i install this product with vbadvanced CMPS 3.2 installed?

Waiting for yours answer.

Regards!
(sorry for my english)

[Ghostt]

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!:

HOw mutch load avareage this rewrite is useing?? more then vbseo?

[yahsuah]

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!:

HOw mutch load avareage this rewrite is useing?? more then vbseo?

LESS than vbseo

[superjeff]

maybe i will relase a vb4 version of this. who would use it?

[wottech]

vb4 has built in SEO, so why would this be needed?

[superjeff]

vb4 do a few stupid things, like Caps-Word-In-Url and no category name in the thread urls. Maybe most people won't care about this.

[yahsuah]

maybe i will relase a vb4 version of this. who would use it?

I have active licence, but I don't think to use vb4.
I am using tfseo heavy mode on vb 3.7.3, but I don't have a sitemap system.
Vbseo sitemap generator is not working with tfseo. Vbseo sitemap generator is creating sitemap which includes old style URLs like showthread.php and forumdisplay.php. Nevertheless, I am very happy about tfseo.

[superjeff]

I'm happy for you :)

you can edit the vbseo's sitemap system to make it generate tfseo compatible sitemaps :)

i did it for my *.narkive.com wich don't use tfseo. (http://de.narkive.com/s/sitemap_index.xml.gz)

[yahsuah]

I'm happy for you :)

you can edit the vbseo's sitemap system to make it generate tfseo compatible sitemaps :)

i did it for my *.narkive.com wich don't use tfseo. (http://de.narkive.com/s/sitemap_index.xml.gz)

I don't have much vbulletin plug-in knowledge to edit vbseo's sitemap system. I don't know how can I edit it.

I remember this sitemap plug-in : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=198369 but It is not working with "heavy mode"

[chriske]

maybe i will relase a vb4 version of this. who would use it?

Hi, i have been using TfSEO 2.1 for quite some time now, and it did the job for me :)

Now that I am testing the Beta 3 version I am wondering what my options are and especially which is the best considering SEO.

I have a lot of pages well indexed in google, when I switch to vbulletin 4.0 I will lose a lot of visitors.

Question 1:
I don't know what's better, TfSEO 2.1 of the one vbulletin provides(what's the difference?). Since you're considering making a version for 4.0 explain me what's it you can offer that vbulletin 4.0 does not have?

Question 2:
Is there a way to maintain my links and use the "Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs" from vbulletin?

It's quite an frustrating situation, just don't know what's best to do and how to do it.. Any help would be more then welcome! :)

[nfy_markus]

I would use tfseo for vb4 :D

[Zorck]

Jeff, I'm using this mod in vb3.8 and I'm waiting for an update for this mod to do de upgrade.
do you have plans for upgrading this product to vb4?

Thanks!

[Cristi_XP]

hello, any ideea how to convert so the old zoints seo rewriting will fit the tfseo one ?
this form /becurile_de_la_faruri_nu_functioneaza-t802.html

[zeus_r6]

I'm happy for you :)

you can edit the vbseo's sitemap system to make it generate tfseo compatible sitemaps :)

i did it for my *.narkive.com wich don't use tfseo. (http://de.narkive.com/s/sitemap_index.xml.gz)

Care to shed some light on how this is done?

[superjeff]

Is someone still waiting for a vb 4 version of tfseo? Since that i feel guilty for this, let me know if you want the vb4 update and i will do one.

I will send an update email to everyone who installed the product, so i will know your thoughs.
Thank you.

[Zorck]

Is someone still waiting for a vb 4 version of tfseo? Since that i feel guilty for this, let me know if you want the vb4 update and i will do one.

I will send an update email to everyone who installed the product, so i will know your thoughs.
Thank you.

Thanks Jeff fot the support.
I already upgrade to vb4, using the url rewrite of vb, is not the same, but is something.
I'm still looking for a way to redirect the old urls of TFSEO to the new ones of VB4, becouse I lost a lot of traffic :( .

[James Argo]

Yes off course we would love to see it in vB 4.

Keep going Jeff ;)

[superjeff]

Thanks Jeff fot the support.
I already upgrade to vb4, using the url rewrite of vb, is not the same, but is something.
I'm still looking for a way to redirect the old urls of TFSEO to the new ones of VB4, becouse I lost a lot of traffic :( .

Easy: take the htaccess of the tfseo plugin, put it above the htaccess rules of the vb4 system.

Example .htaccess file::

--TFSEO RULES

--VB 4 RULES

#end

;)

[nfy_markus]

an update for vb4 would be great

[NeDra]

I decided to not more to vb4 because of this plugin
All the old link would become invalid, thus loosing traffic.
I personally couldn't afford such a thing, all the google search result becoming invalid etc...
All the link from other forum to my forum becoming invalid, etc...

was waiting for people to post result // issue with this plugin on vb4.
I personally would like it, but i though that this plugin wasn't required since there was a build in feature.
I even fixed bug in this plugin related to search and highlight text from search not working with the url-rewrite...
Not sure how you can expect to upgrade it to vb4 and keep it fully working...

Unless you have a lot of free time

You could either upgrade the plugin to vb4
Or post the format of vb4 url-rewrite, so that we can do some redirect of your plugin to the vb4 url rewrite...
And use the vb4 url rewrite without old link to become invalid...
Or a mix of them, anyway, I am looking forward to any solution out there since i paid for vb4 and haven't upgraded yet.

[chriske]

I already upgrade to vb4, using the url rewrite of vb, is not the same, but is something.
I'm still looking for a way to redirect the old urls of TFSEO to the new ones of VB4, becouse I lost a lot of traffic :( .

Me to, the TFSEO urls were a pain in my but. I finaly managed to redirect mosts urls to the correct topic.. but google still index the old urls :(

I think when i remove the rewrite rules it will be ok, but still i will lose a lot of visitors.

[cedivad]

@ everyone about a compatible htaccess to upgrade to vb4 without losing google indexed pages:

I't reeeealy easy, use this htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

#First of all, the tfSEO rewrite rules:
#tfseo start here
RewriteRule ^(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)newpost(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$2&goto=newpost [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/post([0-9]+)(.*)$ showpost.php?p=$6 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4&page=$7 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2 [QSA,L]
#tfseo ends here

#than what follows is the standart vbulletin 4 .htaccess file:

# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
# RewriteBase /forum/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

Make sure that old urls are redirected on new ones, and you are done.

Easy, isn't?

--ah.. anyway i'm "superjeff", just with another account.

[Zorck]

Thanks Jeff!!!

[NeDra]

Hum weird, the link just worked after upgrading without any issue...
Well i finally upgraded, thank

[daydie]

hey guys

if i click directly to a thread in tfseo it comes up:

http://daydie.co.uk/download-movies-f364/i-m-a-virgin-2010-dvdrip-t523345/newpost.html

which is great. but if i go into the forum first

http://daydie.co.uk/download-movies-f364/

and highlight and click a thread, it shows this:

http://daydie.co.uk/edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f364/american-pie-6-beta-house-2007-t523343/

Ive edited the admincp bit, but says i havent on the threads. any way around this please?

[NeDra]

Hum daydie, I posted how to fix this if you look at the previous post from me.
It was a stupid error and it has never really been fixed.
You can fix it yourself...

I only have about 10 post, just read all my post...
I had the issue and fixed it and I'm pretty sure i wrote how to fix it.

[daydie]

Your a *,

this shud be a update on the released .xml, many ppl may come across this error.

[yahsuah]

How can I engage TFSEO 2.1 and Cyb-Advanced Statistics plugin (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177778)?

Cyb-Advanced Statistics plugin (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177778) is demonstrating default style link structure like; showthread.php?t=2342342 forumdisplay.php?f=23232

[abdobasha2004]

how to uninstall Tfseo
i want an htaccess file to redirect tfseo urls to normal vbulletin urls

[yahsuah]

how to uninstall Tfseo
i want an htaccess file to redirect tfseo urls to normal vbulletin urls

me too...

I am using vb 3.8.7 pl1

How can I revert back to original vbulletin's htaccess?

[Brandon Sheley]

me too...

I am using vb 3.8.7 pl1

How can I revert back to original vbulletin's htaccess?

um.. :o

Last Update: 19 Mar 2009

[itilm]

Not found Error in my forum help me

[itilm]

any help for me ?? after seo my forum shows not found error ?

[majidlucky]

rubbish mention the steps to install this mod becuse it crashed my vbulletin bad time

[Naijasite]

Does it work for VB 4.2

[final kaoss]

No, there are major code changes between vb3 & vb4 and it would be pure luck on your part if this mod did function even minimally on vb4. Anyways if all you're concerned with is FURLS (friendly urls), then either check out my article or vbseo to get that functionality (Look in sig).

[Naijasite]

please update the mod to vb 4.2.

[yahsuah]

me too...

I am using vb 3.8.7 pl1

How can I revert back to original vbulletin's htaccess?

I could write some htaccess codes by modifying Neo's codes @ Unix.com forum (http://www.unix.com/web-programming/238951-removing-vbseo-vbulletin-reverting-back-vbulletin-urls.html)


#####################################
# TFSEO URLS FIXING http://www.unix.com/web-programming/238951-removing-vbseo-vbulletin-reverting-back-vbulletin-urls.html
#####################################
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-t([0-9]+)\.html http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/forum/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-f([0-9]+)/ http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]
#####################################
# TFSEO URLS FIXING http://www.unix.com/web-programming/238951-removing-vbseo-vbulletin-reverting-back-vbulletin-urls.html
#####################################

[LegendsKim]

Would it work on vb 4.2.2?