vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! Get your posts listed @ google [Archive] - Page 3

Guidster

06-16-2003, 10:31 PM

Yesterday at 05:56 PM cnczone said this in Post #511 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=409586#post409586)
Nobody knows what this means??-

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking
in /home/cnczone/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

What is the offending lines of code? Other than your errors, the archive appears to be working fine. Could these be errors from included php code? Post the lines that created the errors as they may shed more light.

cnczone

06-17-2003, 03:04 AM

The errors are different lines, their not the same ones. The hack has been working perfect for awhile than all of a sudden I get these warnings. Could my host have changed somthing on the servers or did I change a read write on a file?

Xenon

06-17-2003, 07:36 AM

hmm i don't know but i remember i got some errors on a special host where an old site of me was located, which occured in a warning if gzip was enabled.

so have you tried to use a complete unmodificated version of our hack?
if yes and the error occurs, it's most likely a hostissu

Infopro

06-17-2003, 04:09 PM

A few things I'd like to see added to this, or to the instructions anyway.
1) A few small details on how to make the archive look similar to your forums. I see many have done this. None have spoken up to help others. ie: header and footer
(I'm still tweaking mine so I can't comment on the best way to do this)

2) your on your archive main page ok, you click a forum. I want to center the "Pages: XXXXX" link. I can center Pages:1 ok, but 2345678 whatever, go back to the left side. I think across the top center for page links would be better. ;)

3) Your on a page of threads, or thread itself, it would be great to have a few more links up top, like, "Archive Home" or whatever, like the navbar on the actual forums.

I understand this is for google, but as someone else posted, some users are going to like using this if they are on dialup or just want to surf thru a bit faster.

Thanks for this, I think it's great. :)
It just needs a few more tweaks to be perfect IMHO.
Great job.

Here's link to add if you want.
(and for google to drop by our Joint after they hit this thread next dance LOL)

http://infoprosjoint.net/ij5/archive/

Aurore

06-19-2003, 05:32 AM

What about the same hack for vb3!?
The one in vb3 does not work on certain site because PHP is compiled in CGI.

The one you made worked fine with vb 2.9

S.Shady

06-19-2003, 06:52 AM

06-16-03 at 12:56 PM cnczone said this in Post #511 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=409586#post409586)
Nobody knows what this means??-

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking
in /home/cnczone/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

what you need to do is go into every script index.php, forum, thread and find

include "$archiveurl/header.php";

and

include "$archiveurl/footer.php";

and make them

include "/home/cnczone/public_html/archive/header.php";

and

include "/home/cnczone/public_html/archive/footer.php";

i know it seams crazy but thats what i had to do to mine for that error to go away.

Xenon

06-19-2003, 06:53 PM

@Infopro: Neither Skuzzy or myself are adding Addons to this hack anymore...

@Aurore: hmm, normally it should work with vb3 also, just rename the functions into the new vb3 function equivalents, but maybe i'll port it over myself when i find the time :)

tpearl5

06-21-2003, 05:57 AM

It seems google is spidering again. So far the amount of pages indexed has more than doubled!! It's the highest it's ever been: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+site%3Amidibuddy.net+midibuddy&btnG=Google+Search

Khashyar

06-22-2003, 03:13 PM

Thank you very much for this EASY to install, and wonderful script.

I installed it with no problems whatsoever.

Thank you,

Khashyar
www.russianmeetingplace.com/forums/russian_marriage_women_forum_archives

Nixpeiler

06-23-2003, 08:22 PM

can that adjust that not all forums to see are ?

Nixpeiler

06-23-2003, 08:29 PM

can that adjust that not all forums to see are ?

Xenon

06-23-2003, 09:01 PM

the arhcive just shows those forums you ahve permissions to view, so just as admin you can see all

Nixpeiler

06-23-2003, 09:39 PM

danke Xenon ich war ein trottel natürlich hast du recht
ich hab es nur nicht gerafft

thx

Xenon

06-24-2003, 07:09 AM

Kein Problem,

wenn sowas wieder vorkommt, schiebs einfach auf deinen Nickname ^^

Nixpeiler

06-24-2003, 08:01 AM

in who is online

Unknown Location: /board/phpbb/archive/topic/26267-1.html?

can one change that somehow?

my name is Nixpeiler and my English also not better ;)

mfg

Xenon

06-24-2003, 08:05 AM

Das unknown location siehste nur als admin, alle andren sehen ein Main Index.
Das zu ?ndern is nich so einfach, da die seiten die da dynamisch erzeugt werden nciht der struktur der normalen boarddatein entsprechen ;)

SkuZZy

06-25-2003, 09:06 AM

Just to let everyone know, the google update is all done. After an almost 3 month stint, google finally did a dance. So if you want to see how the archive has helped your site, just type in "site:www.yourdomain.com yourdomain". In other words, if my site was http://www.yahoo.com, I would type in:

site:www.yahoo.com yahoo

cheers,
Skuzzy

aquariumpro

06-25-2003, 01:26 PM

Hi:

Does anyone know if this script will work with VB 2.30?

Thanks

Xenon

06-25-2003, 03:19 PM

yes it does

Khashyar

06-25-2003, 04:40 PM

Yes it does work with 2.3 (my site is a VB 2.3 site).

I ahve not had my forum archives spidered yet, but... I look forward to the results once it is.

Thanks again for a great script and addition to VB.

Khashyar
www.russianmeetingplace.com

FlyBoy73

06-30-2003, 12:41 AM

06-25-03 at 05:06 AM SkuZZy said this in Post #530 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=412518#post412518)
Just to let everyone know, the google update is all done. After an almost 3 month stint, google finally did a dance. So if you want to see how the archive has helped your site, just type in "site:www.yourdomain.com yourdomain". In other words, if my site was http://www.yahoo.com, I would type in:

site:www.yahoo.com yahoo

cheers,
Skuzzy

SkuZZy,
Is that what losing 2/3'rds of my links was all about? I had 23,300 in Google there for a while.. Then it went down to 16,000 or so.. Then all the way down to 7,540.. I was starting to get a little sick! Now, after checking, I am back up to over 19,000 and climbing.

FlyBoy73

06-30-2003, 12:45 AM

Is there any way to check the number of links in MSN/Inktomi?

SkuZZy

06-30-2003, 01:47 AM

Today at 02:41 AM dFrisk said this in Post #534 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=414046#post414046)
SkuZZy,
Is that what losing 2/3'rds of my links was all about? I had 23,300 in Google there for a while.. Then it went down to 16,000 or so.. Then all the way down to 7,540.. I was starting to get a little sick! Now, after checking, I am back up to over 19,000 and climbing.

Yes, that was what happened. Google did a 2 month rollback temporarily so you lost some pages. It's all good now though, and google will be updating as normal.

AuthorZone.Com

06-30-2003, 10:54 PM

Can someone please look at this and tell me if it is working right?
http://www.authorzone.com/forums/resource/

max

AuthorZone.Com

06-30-2003, 11:09 PM

Can someone tell me how I can make this work on the rest of my site which is all php-MySql driven?

THanks

XtReMaTriX

07-03-2003, 01:14 AM

Hey guys... I just changed servers now i am getting an error:
Warning: main() [function.main]: stream does not support seeking in http://www.xtremods.com/vbulletin/archive/footer.php on line 0

here is the URL to my archives:
http://www.xtremods.com/vbulletin/archive/

Any idea what i am missing??? everything used to work...

Prince

07-03-2003, 03:42 AM

I have a question:

If I/we upgrade to vB3 how will this effect all of our indexed pages in Google with this hack? Do we just leave this hack in place along with vB3's Archive? Will that work? Or do we just have to start over with vB3 and getting our Archives indexed again?

Sabrina

07-04-2003, 09:12 PM

great hack! thank you. :classic:

GDH

07-06-2003, 12:45 PM

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, support@xxxx.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

This is what I am getting right now when I click into any sub forums

Im getting a 404 error.

http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/forum/2-1.html

And in the error log...

[Fri May 16 16:10:39 2003] [error] [client 205.240.74.14] File does not exist: /var/www/html/mw/archive/forum/2-1.html, referer: http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

I got the same error

05-17-03 at 03:08 AM version2 said this in Post #493 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=395968#post395968)
Well, THANKS for your help! :D

Just kidding. I fixed it and it now works with Apache2. You have to add this to your http.conf:

AcceptPathInfo On

Add this where you put all your AllowOverride stuff or in your VirtualHost paramaters. Enjoy folks.

http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

Now I just have to pretty it up.

CLicks INSTALL.

Please add me to the list, Xenon!

I have been trying to add the line AcceptPathInfo On, but can't find the correct place to put it! i have put it in incorrect place and http wouldn't run :(
Can anyone please help
btw, I am using Apache 1.3.27

I also tried to turn all allowoverride
but seems not working
02-11-03 at 04:03 AM Steve St.Lauren said this in Post #378 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=352894#post352894)
I figured it out - in my httpd.conf file AllowOverride was set to none for my entire htdocs directory. All I had to do was turn on AllowOverride for that directory and it's working now.

I could still use help on how to have it pull the data from my slave server but look like it's coming from the main. TIA

thank you so much

DanIAm

07-07-2003, 03:15 AM

I am using:

<?php
header("Location:http://www.mysite.com/forums");
?>

as an index.php so when typing my sites URL you are automatically forwarded right to the forum homepage.

Will this cause any interference with search engines out there being able to spider my site? I want to install this hack that makes it easy for Google to spider my site and index it, but I am worried if it will work the same since I am using the redirect.

Please help,
Thanks

Tubbie

07-07-2003, 09:53 PM

hello guys!

i have an problem withe this hack...

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/sebi/kacknub/forum/archive/index.php on line 103

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/sebi/kacknub/forum/archive/index.php on line 116

what?s wrong?

Freezerator

07-08-2003, 06:00 AM

How long does it take to get listed at google for instance?

And how do i now it works? because i have installed the hack, but i don't have a clue if it is spiderable?

jw791

07-10-2003, 02:35 AM

Well it worked great for awhile...1000 pages in google, 100x more traffic, but now it semi works, but the header includes give me an error.

Any php gurus have any ideas? I have not changed the scripts at all, but I believe my host upgraded the php build not too long ago.

Error:

Warning: main(http://www.talkpets.com/forums/archive/header.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required in /web/talkpets/public_html/forums/archive/index.php on line 103

Warning: main() [function.main]: Failed opening 'http://www.talkpets.com/forums/archive/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in /web/talkpets/public_html/forums/archive/index.php on line 103

Skyline_GT

07-10-2003, 11:41 PM

07-07-03 at 11:53 PM Tubbie said this in Post #544 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=416040#post416040)
hello guys!

i have an problem withe this hack...

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/sebi/kacknub/forum/archive/index.php on line 103

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/sebi/kacknub/forum/archive/index.php on line 116

what?s wrong?

I got the same error.

Freezerator

07-11-2003, 06:24 AM

What is a good pop-up program?

I want this hack to generate some cash for my forums for better hosting, so with wich pop-up company should i go?

Thanx in advance

pgowder

07-14-2003, 11:27 PM

In your expereince, how long does it take for Google to start picking these up?

Guidster

07-15-2003, 02:47 AM

There are 37 pages of information preceding this one that answer most, if not all of these questions. Search the thread and you will find your answers!

Pikok

07-21-2003, 07:01 AM

This has most liekly been answered somewhere in this thread already, but there's so many page of replies I probably missed it. Does this work on a Win server or is a *nix required?

Freezerator

07-21-2003, 07:04 AM

Today at 10:01 AM Pikok said this in Post #551 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=419387#post419387)
This has most liekly been answered somewhere in this thread already, but there's so many page of replies I probably missed it. Does this work on a Win server or is a *nix required?

You just need a machine with apache webserver.

So if you have a win server with apache there is no problem.

Pikok

07-21-2003, 09:25 AM

Cold Fusion/Web/ (Windows 2000 Server)
Dual PIII 1Ghz/1.5 GB RAM running Microsoft IIS 5.0, Cold Fusion Enterprise Server v4.51

Server's running REAL Server G2, SSH2 Server, SERV-U FTP Server, FireDaemon, Windmail, Analog, Report Magic, GnuPG, PHP4.2.3, Active Perl V 5.6.0.116, FrontPage 2002/SharePoint Extensions, and the .NET framework. RAID 5 Configurations for redundancy with SCSI LVD Ultra 160 Hard Drives.

Suppose I can't use this hack then? Would Teck's be usable if not this one? :confused:

pgowder

07-21-2003, 03:20 PM

My Google page count has gone down about 150 since I installed this hack. I have submitted it to Google and put a link on every page to the archive. Any other suggestions?

Is there anyway to see googlebots in vBulletin?

Freezerator

07-22-2003, 07:12 AM

Is there an solution for the online.php unknow location?

Infopro

07-22-2003, 12:20 PM

This needs a bit of updating for the latest version of MySQL to work properly. has anyone had the time to address this by chance?
You can view the errors here..
http://infoprosjoint.net/ij5/archive/

Thanks in advance

pgowder

07-22-2003, 12:57 PM

Today at 09:20 AM Infopro said this in Post #556 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=419689#post419689)
This needs a bit of updating for the latest version of MySQL to work properly. has anyone had the time to address this by chance?
You can view the errors here..
http://infoprosjoint.net/ij5/archive/

Thanks in advance

What version are you running?

I'm on MySQL 4.0.12 and it's working great.

noppid

07-22-2003, 01:23 PM

The only thing I recall changing for newer php versions is the includes in the index.php. They are old and call files with the file URL. Change the includes to server absolute paths.
ie. "/home/sitename/public_html/forums/archives/header.php" Instead of...
"http://www.sitename.com/forums/archives/header.php"

For online locations we use this code with this hack in online.php...

// is the user in the archives hack
$myfind='/\/forums\/archives/';
if( preg_match($myfind,$userinfo[location])){
$userinfo[where] = "Browsing the <A href=\"http://www.lakecs.com/forums/archives/\">Archives</A>";
}
// END is the user in the archives hack

This is placed at approx line 285 at the end of the switch statments default code. It works for us. It's not tested. It's not a released add-on hack.

Infopro

07-22-2003, 06:17 PM

Ver 4.0.13 is what I've got here.

noppid, thanks, I'll give it a go and post back. :)

Infopro

07-22-2003, 06:38 PM

Change the includes to server absolute paths.
ie. "/home/sitename/public_html/forums/archives/header.php" Instead of...
"http://www.sitename.com/forums/archives/header.php"

This fixed it thanks alot. :)

Line 103 and line 116
edited this $archiveurl/header.php & $archiveurl/footer.php
as you suggested but in index.php for archive. All fixed.
:classic:

Infopro

07-22-2003, 06:44 PM

I should add, Alexia has been here for days digging around using up bandwidth.

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&sa=G&q=%22209.237.238.172%22

Infopro

07-22-2003, 06:55 PM

oops! Also had to change this in the forum and topic files.
Line 34 & line 67 in forum and 47 & 76 in topic.

Now it seems to be good. ;)

jw791

07-24-2003, 03:26 AM

Yesterday at 12:55 PM Infopro said this in Post #562 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=419794#post419794)
oops! Also had to change this in the forum and topic files.
Line 34 & line 67 in forum and 47 & 76 in topic.

Now it seems to be good. ;)

Thanks! I was getting the same error too!

pgowder

07-25-2003, 11:54 AM

Any tips on getting google to start crawling this? Sent installing and submitting the url to google, my google totals have dropped over 150 pages.

VICOS

08-04-2003, 05:06 AM

Smilies are broken.

<img src="images/smilies/cool.gif" border="0" alt="">

images needs to be absolute -> /images...

Any ideas?

P.S. U might want to start a new thread to track issues. I made it to pp 20 looking for an answer to this before my eyes started spinning. :)

pgowder

08-04-2003, 10:36 AM

07-25-03 at 08:54 AM pgowder said this in Post #564 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=420482#post420482)
Any tips on getting google to start crawling this? Sent installing and submitting the url to google, my google totals have dropped over 150 pages.

I continue to drop in the totals of pages in Google. What can I do?

Khashyar

08-09-2003, 05:37 PM

Hi guys....

The forum archive software works well without glitches....

The only thing that I am a bit confused about is that although I have over 600 posts in my forum, Google has only indexed about 109 posts after 1 1/2 months on having the archive software installed.

In fact, Google has indexed only 109 posts in my forum steadily for about 3 or 4 weeks now.

Could there be any reason why Google is not spidering the other 500 posts in my forum?

The link to my forum archive is here: http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/forums/russian_marriage_women_forum_archives/

Thank you for any feedback,

Khashyar

Khashyar

08-09-2003, 05:42 PM

Another question for everyone...

Would it be a good idea to install 2 DIFFERENT types of VB forum archives softeware? I was thinking that the different search engine archiving software might work best with different search engines.

What does everyone think?

Khashyar

Hellburn

08-12-2003, 02:19 PM

Hi,

my hoster allowed me about .htaccess Apatche configuration. Can i make mod_mime turn on with .htaccess? What i must writing in the .htaccess to do it? Thank you for help.

Hellburn

08-12-2003, 10:35 PM

sh.. i have cgi-php. everybody a idea what i must change that the hack working? i have a error 404 when i clicked the threads. thanks

Cal Poly Forum

08-17-2003, 08:09 AM

So this works well with 2.3.2?

Alien

08-17-2003, 07:47 PM

That is correct.

noppid

08-17-2003, 08:04 PM

Today at 05:09 AM Cal Poly Forum said this in Post #571 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=426557#post426557)
So this works well with 2.3.2?

Inktomi and altavista have been on my board for over a week now.

Inktomi is surfing the forums with as many as 40 bots at a time.

Altavista keeps appearing as browsing the archives.

Inktomi does hit the archives too, but the majority of the activity is on the regular forums.

PhoenixBB

08-21-2003, 12:20 AM

Yes, this is confusing me. Inktomi is currently browsing but the threads it's looking at are on the main board, there is no mention of the archives.

Also I noted it's looking at things which aren't part of the archive, like the calendar, journals, memberslist, and trying to register. I have a link back to the main index and portal on the archive page, but I made sure to put it in the footer. Would have expected if it was exploring that link it would have gone thru the archive ones first.

I definitely submitted the correct url for the archives, so does anyone know why they don't appear to be searching in there?

Thanx

Nixpeiler

09-02-2003, 09:21 AM

with me archives make for daily very much with over 7000 visitors traffic
now I switched on there also times gzip
it is very simple to make by the entry ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

there are certainly still different possibilities
but in addition my knowledge is not sufficient

but perhaps has who another solution
I hope I could some somewhat help here with my idea

mfg

Importhookup

09-05-2003, 03:10 PM

Hello Guys,

This may be a stupid question but I want to make sure that I'm filling in the right information.

In the instructions it says to modify the config.php:

// Forums URL - Directory your vbulletin forums are in (NO TRAILING SLASH!)

$forumurl="http://www.importhookup.com";

I'm wondering if i need to add the "/forums" at the end of it because that's where my forum is located. Thank you guys for the great mod :)

Xenon

09-05-2003, 06:19 PM

yes, you have to add the /forums

Fking

09-09-2003, 08:36 PM

something very weird is happening

i installed the final version of this script
it worked from the frist time BUT
on the top it loads my custom 404 page, in the middle the archive page and on the bottom again the 404 page

when i click some of the archive links, it loads again, 404 on top, archive in the middle and 404 on bottom

weird, heh?

any suggestions?

Xenon

09-09-2003, 08:41 PM

hmm, have you uploaded header and footerfiles correctly?

Fking

09-09-2003, 08:45 PM

Today at 10:41 PM Xenon said this in Post #579 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=432677#post432677)
hmm, have you uploaded header and footerfiles correctly?

i though the same, and checked but yes, they are there

Skyline_GT

09-16-2003, 04:02 AM

please help
http://www.gamerzonline.net/forum/archive/
it has errors popups when you click any link

caffeine20

09-17-2003, 05:52 AM

quick question, i installed the hack without a hitch(very easy) but im wondering doesnt google follow the links on your page to index your site, theefore if i dont have a link to my /archive/ directory how will it index my bbs.

should i just add a hidden link on my main site to /archive/?

thanks for the hack.

Xenon

09-17-2003, 09:14 PM

as stated in the installation hints you should add a text link into your header/footer or forumhome :)

Big J

09-21-2003, 05:16 PM

Hi guys, please look at this error I'm getting all of the sudden on my archive, please help!

http://www.extreme-athlete.com/forums/archive/

Pollo

09-21-2003, 08:41 PM

*EDIT*

Issue resolved by my provider, http://www.fastservers.net -they rock!

I have my archive back! Yea!

smestas

09-24-2003, 06:27 PM

Greetings all!

I've just finished moving my site from one server to another and now my archive page is no longer working. I thought perhaps the new server didnt have the mentioned "mod_mime & mod_rewrite" but the servers admin has verified that it does have those running.

I've gone thru all my archive files and all seems to be correct. What am I missing?

Here is all I see when a archive page tries to load.
"Warning: main(global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/alfabb/bb/forums/archive/config.php on line 11"

smestas

09-24-2003, 09:35 PM

Got it fixed!

The issue was already discussed about previously in this same thread. All I had to do was to edit my path to "global.php" in the config file and it worked.

smestas

09-24-2003, 11:30 PM

OK,

Now I got a new problem which I didnt have before switching hosts. It seems that the initial archive page is loading but all of the links on the page produce a blank page. What gives?

I've went thru this thread to make sure that I'm not asking a question that has already been answered but so far none of the recomended fixes have worked. Im also running the latest version.

Regards,

smestas

09-29-2003, 06:24 AM

Does anyone have a work around for those without "ForceType" running on their server?

Darkwaltz

10-01-2003, 09:40 PM

i get this error

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/fithoslu/public_html/forums/archive/index.php on line 103

Darkwaltz

10-01-2003, 10:38 PM

fixed thanks to a previous post by S.Shady

thankin you :P

cerebro

10-09-2003, 09:44 PM

I have all modules Loaded...but i cant see the .html page...dont generate.
My forum php info file: http://foro.alkon.com.ar/info.php
Please some help...

Loaded Modules
mod_php4, mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_headers, mod_expires, mod_proxy, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, mod_log_config, mod_env, mod_vhost_alias, http_core

maybe i have to change some value in httd.conf ??

cerebro

10-10-2003, 04:51 PM

ok, problem resolt...i have to ADD
<Directory "/var/www/FORUMDIRECTORY">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Add to the Archive Demo
http://foro.alkon.com.ar/archivo/

Skyline_GT

10-15-2003, 04:33 AM

Please help me
I got

Internal Server Error

whenever I click a link..
http://www.gamerzonline.net/forum/archive

julius

10-15-2003, 09:56 PM

In control panel options (settings) if I put NO vb codes in signatures, vb codes are not active in the archive too, even if the forum has vb codes ON.

It seems like the options of activating vbcodes, smiles and img codes in the archive are the same of the signature options ... and not those of the forums options.

:Judge:

10-18-2003, 03:17 AM

Please help me
I got

Internal Server Error

whenever I click a link..
http://www.gamerzonline.net/forum/archive
Looks fine to me.

Lexserv

10-18-2003, 04:41 AM

Will this hack work with vB 3.0???? If not, is there another similar google hack around?

Thanks in advance.

lnissen

10-21-2003, 10:09 PM

Yes, it works with vB 3.0

Lexserv

10-24-2003, 12:15 AM

Well, I'm getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getpermissions() in /home/mydomain/public_html/google/index.php on line 14

How do I rectify this problem?

atomic fireball

11-14-2003, 07:16 AM

Hey there SkuZZy, I just wanted to drop you a big thanks for this archive hack.

It installed in literally minutes, and our board's archive is now up and running.
Here's the example of our Archive section:
http://www.thedigitalreview.com/forum/archive/

It's simple, loads super fast, and I'm sure our archive will be on Google in a bit.
Thanks for your work on this!

hvacr

11-20-2003, 03:19 PM

I'll be releasing a version TODAY that doesn't require mod_rewrite and will have all the same features. It will be version 2.0! ;)

It does however require .htaccess. But....... good news. Tommorow, I will be releasing a version that doesn't require mod_rewrite OR .htaccess ;)

The downside to that version will be that URL.s will look like http://www.whatever.com/archive/topic.php/400.html instead of just "topic/400.html". But it still works ;)

do you have a current google search hack?

Thanks

Sal Collaziano

11-24-2003, 04:29 AM

This seems to be working for me but I get one of these at the top and bottom of the page:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in......

hvacr

11-24-2003, 05:33 PM

Ok, so you get 1 zillion spots on google, whats that
mean? abosoulely nothing.. sure I am indexed on
google and some others, so? so far, the only way
they can find me is if the EXACT domain name is
entered, then big deal, your listing will come up,
what does that mean? that means that everyone has to
already know your exact domain to pull your listing,
but if thats the case, why even search it at all,
i have tried countless words that surround my
domain name, NOTHING, pulls everything ones and
his brothers site, but not mine... unless you can get
number 1 in all engines, you are nothing on the net.

so how come i can find my site only pulling my
domain name, but not with keywords, if you
cant find my site with keywords then you will
never be found but by accident.

I have had 1 domain for years, and it is just
now being indexed by some of the engines, last
but not least, if you do not enter the exact
domain name, you will never find me.

so what if you are indexed 1 million times...
it really means nothing if you cant be
found by keywords...

atomic fireball

11-24-2003, 05:39 PM

hvacr, what's your exact site and forum url?

Just because you can't find your site on google by doing keyword searches, doesn't mean others will have the same problem. There could be a few reasons:

1. You're not doing a proper keyword search
2. You're not giving google the proper amount of time to properly index your site

Again, post your site and forum, and let us see if we can get some searches to pop up on google.

hvacr

11-24-2003, 05:51 PM

hvacr, what's your exact site and forum url?

Just because you can't find your site on google by doing keyword searches, doesn't mean others will have the same problem. There could be a few reasons:

Its from experiance, and knowing from being listed
for 2 years, and seeing only 5 vistors a month.

1. You're not doing a proper keyword search
2. You're not giving google the proper amount of time to properly index your site

Again, post your site and forum, and let us see if we can get some searches to pop up on google.

although, this is the newest site that i am
using with this script, the funny thing is
that one listing has shown for the actual
site itself, but not from the script...

http://www.forumschat.net

right now the only way that i have
found it is with direct domain search on google.

atomic fireball

11-24-2003, 06:01 PM

hvacr, I just checked your site, and you have a total of 8 posts for your entire forum. That's the answer. I'm guessing you simply don't have enough content to have your actual forum pages show up in google.

Google may spider your pages, but they don't always include all pages in their index. Only google really knows the true criteria as to what they use to have pages show up. With only 8 posts on your forum, most of which have less than 30 words or so, google probably just doesn't feel that it adds to their engine to have your forum listed at this time.

FlyBoy73

12-04-2003, 08:18 AM

I have been using SkuZZy's archive hack since March of this year and it has been wonderful.. BUT now I am getting worried.. What is going to happen to our links when we upgrade to vb3?

Please see and respond in this thread: (It may apply to all archive hacks)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=450353#post450353

Freezerator

12-04-2003, 08:21 AM

They all will be renewed, because vb3 has his own archive wich can be spidered.

FlyBoy73

12-04-2003, 06:27 PM

I understand that, but if the links in the archive are different at all, wouldn't the Search Engine drop the then dead links and start re-indexing the new?

Does SkuZZy's archive hack archive the exact same way as Teck's and what vb3 is using?

slinky

12-09-2003, 04:46 PM

This seems to be working for me but I get one of these at the top and bottom of the page:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in......

I have the same problem:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/mydomain/public_html/forums/archive/index.php on line 116

Has something to do with the inlcude files so I just put in the raw code for the header and footer and works fine without the header.php and footer.php. Small inconvenience.

PurpleCow

12-10-2003, 01:44 AM

Lets say, i have my forums at http://forums.mydomain.com and want to install this hack in http://archive.mydomain.com . is it possible to do so ??

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

slinky

12-10-2003, 02:01 AM

Lets say, i have my forums at http://forums.mydomain.com and want to install this hack in http://archive.mydomain.com . is it possible to do so ??

Thanks for any help.

Cheers
It's the same thing. A subdomain merely points to another directory on a server. The forums subdomain is probably a directory off of the domain -- I think of it like an alias. I'm waiting to get bashed for my simple definition. :D

PurpleCow

12-10-2003, 07:40 AM

Okay - hope i get another opinion abt that !

This hack sounds very interesting than anyother similiar archiving hack, simply b'cos it doesn't have and url characters after a file extension like .php while other archiving hacks have directorues or files after a .php extension.

So, further to this...isn't it possible to have thread descriptions, posting date, number of posts and number of threads ( for forum home ) in the archive also. It would be much better.

Also, someone take a look at dbforums.com/archive. fastforward muct be coding a custom hack which is very very interesting. I wish, this particular hack also developes into one such !

Thanks much
Cheers

vdich

12-14-2003, 01:29 PM

Hi

I have the same problem like many other peoples, but no hack work....

I have use perfect the vB Easy Archive FINAL before i change my Hoster.

Since 2 weeks i change my provider, but now only work the index-Site from http://www.informatikboard.ch/archive , the Sub-Forum dont work....

mod_mime is install:
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

PLEASE HELP ME !!!!

thanks.

PhoenixBB

12-31-2003, 01:10 AM

This doesn't appear to have worked well for me, traffic-wise. :(

Everything installed fine and I first submitted to all the search engines in September. About a week later I did get a lot of bots online - most seemed to be Inktomi or AltaVista, I only saw Google a couple of times. I did notice that most of the time they didn't go into the archive even though I submitted that url (and have a link to it on my homepage and forum). However that was it really. I resubmitted over the next couple of months - and have just done so now - but only get a couple of bots (not google) come around.

I checked to find how many listings I got - a mere 32. This was about the same as I had before I installed this hack, and none are from the archive. Also like the guy above said, I have to type my url to get them. None of the keywords bring me up. If people know my url they ain't gonna look for me on the search engine, so I'm beginning to wonder what the point is.

On the rare occasions the bots appeared to look in the archive in the online.php I never saw a 'clean' url listed, but one with a session cookie in it. I thought it wasn't supposed to do that?

Anyway, it's been 3mths now and for whatever reason Google isn't archiving me. As my forum isn't doing brilliantly at the moment I was hoping for more traffic from the Search Engines, but that isn't happening. I've just submitted the archive url and the home page again, but I'm probably not gonna bother anymore.

Aside from the fact it got me no traffic, the archive is cool to read if my connection is ever sluggish. :)

Phoenix

vdich

12-31-2003, 06:32 AM

I have the reason, my provider must change some things on my host.....

n9com

01-03-2004, 12:52 PM

installed, thanks: http://www.talkxbox.com/forum/archive/

vdich

01-03-2004, 02:02 PM

here too with header and footer

www.informatikboard.ch/archive

Stephan Whelan

01-06-2004, 11:51 AM

Hi everyone - has anyone been able to code "What's New" not to display "Unknown" location whenever someone is looking at the archive?

SkuZZy

01-19-2004, 02:43 PM

Just stopping in to say hi, long time since ive been here. Glad to see people are still installing this :D It's perfect for those people who decide to stick with vb2. Personally I am not too fond of vb3 yet, but im sure it will grow on me :D

Fking

01-19-2004, 08:32 PM

what is the best way to link the forum and the archive in order to get best results in the SEs?

SkuZZy

01-20-2004, 02:35 AM

what is the best way to link the forum and the archive in order to get best results in the SEs?

Just make sure the archive is linked from the main pages of your site. I would recommend putting the link on the bottom of all your main forum pages. Look at http://www.battleforums.com for an example of this. At the bottom of all the forums pages, there is a "History" link, that links to the archive.

Fking

01-20-2004, 07:36 AM

which template i have to edit in order to put this link on the bottom of all pages?

Xenon

01-20-2004, 02:51 PM

footer?

dgessler

01-30-2004, 06:15 PM

Logikos

01-30-2004, 06:22 PM

Anyone know why after I installed the script, it works fine, but for the top and bottom of the archive pages I get this error:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/aimforum/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

Thanks,
Dan Gessler

Mod_mime - You will NEED mod_mime to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html

tpearl5

02-06-2004, 07:02 AM

For some reason my page numbers aren't working in the topics. .. i.e. : http://cellphoneforums.net/archive/topic/8289.html (I moved the page number to the bottom)

cybermomcafe

02-27-2004, 12:42 AM

Installed!

Thank you!!!

MogKnight

03-13-2004, 02:58 AM

anyone help?

I'm getting a lot of errors

http://forums.ffshrine.org/archive/

Gary King

03-17-2004, 11:27 PM

anyone help?

I'm getting a lot of errors

http://forums.ffshrine.org/archive/
You're running on Windows I'm assuming?

Gary King

03-17-2004, 11:29 PM

I can't seem to get this to work, I installed and the links lead to a 404 :(
What should the correct, default format for forums and topics be? Also mod_mime etc. is installed on the server FYI :)

dethfire

03-21-2004, 03:49 PM

any way to get this to work with vb3?

Gary King

03-21-2004, 03:59 PM

any way to get this to work with vb3?
There's a built-in archive for vB3.

dethfire

03-21-2004, 04:03 PM

There's a built-in archive for vB3.

as I'm sure your aware gary there is a large percentage of people who can't use the built in archive because they either use IIS or have PHP as CGI

Gary King

03-21-2004, 04:10 PM

as I'm sure your aware gary there is a large percentage of people who can't use the built in archive because they either use IIS or have PHP as CGI
Ah I wasn't aware that those were required for it to function correctly. My mistake! :)

Gary King

03-24-2004, 11:46 PM

I can't seem to get this to work, I installed and the links lead to a 404 :(
What should the correct, default format for forums and topics be? Also mod_mime etc. is installed on the server FYI :)

I still want an answer :)

dethfire

03-24-2004, 11:52 PM

So gary is there an easy way to convert this script to work with vb3?

Gary King

03-25-2004, 12:01 AM

So gary is there an easy way to convert this script to work with vb3?
You shouldn't ask in this thread; and nope I haven't looked into this yet :) Post a Hack Request for this :)

Areku

03-25-2004, 01:39 PM

Rather than porting it to vb3, what about using the one that comes with VB3 but write an apache mod rewrite rule to make the old links indexed already by google still work and redirect to the correct, new vb3 format?

Any1?

dethfire

03-25-2004, 10:01 PM

the problem is the archive doesn't work on all servers

gary I made a post in the request forum

dethfire

03-25-2004, 11:18 PM

dethfire

03-25-2004, 11:30 PM

would this simply work?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/archive/topic/(.*)-(.*)\.html$ /archive/t-$1

Areku

03-29-2004, 12:42 PM

Any1 tried it?

Doesn't work for me...

dethfire

03-29-2004, 01:05 PM

Any1 tried it?

Doesn't work for me...

me either, I thought it should work, can anyone help?

Gary King

03-29-2004, 07:07 PM

You should discuss about this in a separate thread.

Areku

03-29-2004, 07:19 PM

Why? it's just to extend compatibility with VB3 :P

globalinsites

04-03-2004, 01:44 PM

parajsa

05-02-2004, 12:55 PM

Greetings,
I can not run this script on my new server. I can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page whenI click on any links. The module Mod_mime is installed.

The apache is 2.0.47

What can i do?

:ermm:

globalinsites

05-02-2004, 12:58 PM

Welcome to the club :-)

dethfire

05-24-2004, 05:03 PM

I get the internal server error

[Mon May 24 09:23:22 2004] [error] [client 68.192.209.7] Premature end of
script headers: /home/coolteen/public_html/newforum/archive/forum

dethfire

05-26-2004, 05:06 AM

any ideas on my error, I can see the forum list just fine, but when I select a forum it gives me that ISE

Prince

05-29-2004, 05:16 AM

has anyone gotten this to work with vB3?

I would hate to lose thousands of indexed pages in Google. :(

Xenon

05-29-2004, 12:11 PM

hmm, i'll port it over to vb3 soon, as i can see that there are a lot of users requesting it.

shouldn't take too long i think :)

Prince

05-29-2004, 02:53 PM

cool, thanks.

Xenon

05-31-2004, 01:44 PM

Hmm, it seems there were a bit more changes in the permission system *gg*

well, i have to rewrite a bit more, but for now, i've changed the vb2 version marginal and attached it again :)

i'll work on the vb3 version, when i have the correct modules on my localhost as well ;)

Xenon

05-31-2004, 04:32 PM

hmm, kay got it working :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65703

tpearl5

05-31-2004, 05:14 PM

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out.

FlyBoy73

05-31-2004, 07:56 PM

A word of advice.. I decided to switch to vb 3.0.1's included archive system and I have now gone from about 65,000! links/refs in Google to about 8,000, and have yet to see any return to the previous number yet.. I'm hoping that in the upcoming dance I will see some action/activity, but I haven't seen a Google Spider in the new archive system to date.

If you have a lot of links, it may be worth waiting for the port.

Xenon

05-31-2004, 08:10 PM

Erm, i ported it already FlyBoy :)

FlyBoy73

06-05-2004, 05:27 AM

Ouch.. I wish I had known that. That is what I get for not keeping up with the thread. I'm really starting to wonder if Google will like the standard vb Archive as much as it liked the one that you have now ported. Any idea on varying results? Should I start a new thread and see if anyone cares to submit any?

Xenon

06-05-2004, 01:37 PM

hmm, well, i have no real stats, i just heard, that google doesn't like the vb3 standart archive very much, but it like the vb3 board itself more....

morrow

08-06-2004, 04:55 AM

I've read all 33 pages and cannot seem to find the solution to the 404 errors.

http://www.njflyfishing.com/vbportal/vbulletin/archive/index.php

http://www.njflyfishing.com/phpinfo.php

Can someone cut and paste your http.conf file so I can compare it with mine?

###############################
# PHP is compiled as a binary file (e.g. cgi-mode)
ScriptAlias /php4/ "/usr/local/bin/"
Action application/x-httpd-php /php4/php
###############################

LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
AcceptPathInfo On
AllowOverride On

THanks

morrow

08-07-2004, 12:39 AM

Forgot to mention, mod mime is installed on the server. If I get this working, I'd be more than happy to donate via paypal.

Thanks

Xenon

08-07-2004, 11:53 AM

I've sent you an email with my conf file, maybe that helps :)

morrow

08-07-2004, 01:22 PM

Xenon,

I appreciate that. One problem, I checked my email and didn't receive it. So I checked my profile and noticed that my email address was that of an old job. I just updated my address. Would you please send it again.

Thanks

Xenon

08-07-2004, 04:50 PM

No prob, sent again :)

morrow

08-08-2004, 01:34 AM

Thanks, Xenon, but it didn't work out. I copied that file to my root and nothing. Sure looks like a nice hack from how I've seen it work on other boards. For some reason my site doesn't really come up in google. I'd love to get google to spider my site and I thought this would have been the best way.

Xenon

08-08-2004, 03:11 PM

Sorry to read that it didn't help :(

Well i have no other ideas then.

morrow

08-08-2004, 11:56 PM

Well, although mod_mime is activated on my host, ForceType is disabled. They said they disabled it for security reasons?

They suggested that I use something like this:

RewriteEngine on
ReWriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)articles(.*) $1index.php?articles$2
or
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.+\.php$
RewriteRule ^products(.+)$ /products/index.php?dir=$1 [L]

This is an example these folks said helped them to get the short url names working. I'm not quite sure how to apply them to this utility though. Any assistance if anyone knows anything about this stuff would be greatly appreciated.

THanks

Theory

08-31-2004, 05:11 PM

heh I kind of need help.

http://board.midibuddy.net/archive2/topic/69890.html

I want to make mine like that. You notice at the top how it shows the title of the thread in the title in the archive mine does not :( it just shows the title I put in for the config anyway I can make it so it's like the one above?

Xenon

09-01-2004, 11:34 AM

in archive_functions.php

replace the

function print_header()
{
global $archiveurl, $title;

echo "
<html>
<head><title>$title</title></head>
<base href=\"$archiveurl/\">
<body>
";
include "$archiveurl/header.php";
}

with
function print_header()
{
global $archiveurl, $title, $forum, $thread;

// Build Page Title
$pagetitle = $title;
if ($thread['title'] != '')
{
$pagetitle .= ' - ' . $thread['title'];
}
else if ($forum['title'] != '')
{
$pagetitle .= ' - ' . $forum['title'];
}

echo "
<html>
<head><title>$pagetitle</title></head>
<base href=\"$archiveurl/\">
<body>
";
include "$archiveurl/header.php";
}

that should work

Theory

09-04-2004, 04:09 PM

Wow, Thank you that worked great. You are by far the smartest person ever. I appreciate that alot thanks again. Forum titles can be done the same way? That dosen't really matter tho the main thing I wanted was thread titles. Thank-you again you're great.

Xenon

09-05-2004, 05:46 PM

you're welcome :)

ah, i see i have used different variablenames in the two scripts (bad me (hey the script is very old ^^))

use this to get the forumtitles as well:

function print_header()
{
global $archiveurl, $title, $foruminfo, $thread;

// Build Page Title
$pagetitle = $title;
if ($thread['title'] != '')
{
$pagetitle .= ' - ' . $thread['title'];
}
else if ($foruminfo['title'] != '')
{
$pagetitle .= ' - ' . $foruminfo['title'];
}

echo "
<html>
<head><title>$pagetitle</title></head>
<base href=\"$archiveurl/\">
<body>
";
include "$archiveurl/header.php";
}

Theory

09-05-2004, 06:17 PM

You never cease to amaze me. Thanks again man :D

Xenon

09-07-2004, 12:21 AM

*gg*

that's my purpose here ;)

you're welcome

Theory

09-10-2004, 03:05 AM

gg indeed :). Your purpose is a good one :). And if your doing it volunteer like even more props to you. So thanks again ^^

glo

10-03-2004, 12:43 PM

Hi, im trying to install this into vB2.3.0 and have a question about your instructions.

It says to load up the 7 files listed to the new Archive folder, but in your zip file there is an 8th file "archive_functions.php" should this be uploaded too?

Also, as recommended I have included a link to the archive in the footer using the link "./archive", but in the template preview mode it shows it linking to http://localhost/forum/admin/archive but in the IE or Firefox browser the link shows correctly as http://localhost/forum/archive

What is the best way to set this up correctly (the actual location of the archive folder is localhost/forum/archive)

thanks

Meza

10-22-2004, 06:08 PM

Well that was easy! Installed in about 5 minutes.

vdich

11-28-2004, 07:44 PM

My Provider has change to Plesk 7.1.5, now the archive don't work more...
Can someone help me ?

Areku

11-29-2004, 06:39 AM

I also upgraded PHP on my server and now it reports 404 error due to the ending "/" on every call.

How can I fix that?!?

vdich

11-29-2004, 07:20 AM

its the same with me....

vdich

11-29-2004, 08:45 AM

ok i found the failure
My provider has delete a small parameter...
now its work again.

vonedaddy

12-07-2004, 11:25 AM

I have it installed and the front page comes up fine. But when you click on something it says...

No Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

I dont have mod_mime installed so I had to change the forum. and topic. files.
Help please. :)

vonedaddy

12-08-2004, 01:20 AM

Anyone?

globalinsites

07-18-2006, 11:38 PM

I use vB Easy Archive Final on vBulletin 2.3.3

Currently we're working on making a site with the latest version of vBulletin on another server. Once it's finished we will change the DNS. What I'd like to know is if it's possible to copy the /forums/archive directory from the old site to the new site on the other server, so I won't lose the search enginge traffic.

I don't intend to move the actual threads to the new site with ImpEx, I'm affraid it will cause problems. Will copying the /forums/archive directory to the new site/server work if the actual threads will not be there?

Will I need to make any adjustments?

letsjoy

07-26-2006, 05:38 AM

le'me check that mod ;)

globalinsites

07-26-2006, 03:41 PM