vbArchive - Search Engine Indexer for vBulletin

[TECK]

I have no idea why the crawlers would go to your images, it's ilogic.

[Dean C]

The same thing happened to me when I closed my board for a few hours :) ^^

[FastAttack]

/edit

nm I got it work :)

[NexDog]

Okay, I'm going to rehack from scratch. Maybe I missed something somewhere. Strange as I've applied this hack 5-6 times....

[NexDog]

Rehacked and nothing. :(

AltaVista's spider registers as going to archive, not many others though. I'm scared that my archive isn't getting spidered correctly....

[EVO VIII Chris]

Why is it that I have this hack installed and the archive works great and all however it did not make my current posts and links in my forum to be search engine index-able. For example the links still look like this... http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showthread.php?threadid=16

Thanks
Chris

[Tigerdude]

Does the new search engine archive that is part of VB3 work as well as this hack? If not will this hack wirk with VB3?

I'm spidered up the ying-yang and I'm scared to death of upgrading to VB3 and losing all of my search engine positions.

[NexDog]

Today at 01:30 AM EVO VIII Chris said this in Post #756 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=432558#post432558)
Why is it that I have this hack installed and the archive works great and all however it did not make my current posts and links in my forum to be search engine index-able. For example the links still look like this... http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showthread.php?threadid=16

Thanks
Chris
You misunderstand what the hack does. And I don't see the archive:

http://www.vorspann.net/forum/archive/

One thinks you should reread the first post.

[NexDog]

Well, my archive just gets worse and worse. Crawlers are now hitting pages as:

http://nexusportal.net/showthread/t-1189.html?

Complete with sessionhash. :(

[EVO VIII Chris]

You have the wrong link NexDog. My Forums are in a Forums folder not Forum, notice the S. Therefore the link is www.vorspann.net/Forums/archive/

Now what I am wondering is then why are the pages on this site all indexable and same with lots of other sites like www.evolutionm.net They all look like this...

http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38799

Why aren't my sites pages like that?

Chris

[NexDog]

Your archive links:

http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/forumdisplay/f-20.html
http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showthread/t-16.html

Completely spiderable. :)

This is also spiderable:

http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38799

But anyone browsing the site adds a sessionhash to the link, including spiders which is why you would need that other mod to strip out the hash for spiders. But everything looks good, mate. You haven't done anything wrong - installed perfectly.

[X-Fan]

You need to install the vbHome addon instead (search engine indexer), that does this.
http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=617
Is that available anywhere here at vBulletin.org, as TeckWizards.com is down it seems.

At any rate, I managed to work around it by removing the code from home/global.php and putting it in admin/functions.php and it works fine. Take a look:

http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/

Thanks for another great hack, TECK!

[KelteN]

Is that available anywhere here at vBulletin.org, as TeckWizards.com is down it seems.

At any rate, I managed to work around it by removing the code from home/global.php and putting it in admin/functions.php and it works fine. Take a look:

http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/

Thanks for another great hack, TECK!

Yeah, I also need this. I just installed vBArchive and am getting the follow error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/user/public_html/global.php:378) in /home/user/public_html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 2554

And I see that the teckwizards.com site is down for a while. :(

[KelteN]

Okay, I uninstalled vBArchive and tried reinstalling vBHL and I still get that same error. Can anyone help me out? I don't see why it is still giving me that error even after everything has been uninstalled. :(

[KelteN]

Nevermind I got it working :)

BTW: Here is the link for anyone who is looking for the vBHomelite version.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=56617

[mccollin]

I've installed the archive hack, along with the first 2 items in the list of extras (strip session hash for crawlers, and limit crawlers to certain directories). I don't really see the need for number 3, if the first two are done.

I've added a link to the archive page in my main navigation bar (javascript). First question is, is that sufficient? Will the crawlers be OK with the javascript menu to get there, or must it be a hard link. If so, then I can always link it on my footer.

Here's my main question. These are the meta tags that are being generated...


<title>pdaPhoneHome.com Archive - Hitachi G1000</title>
<meta name="keywords" content=" hitachi g, pda, phone, pdaphone">
<meta name="description" content="pdaPhoneHome.com - Discussion about the first Pocket PC based pdaPhone with a keyboard">


OK, the keyword algorithm is stripping my numbers out of the pdaPhone model numbers. This is not good. Anyone know why this is happening?

[mccollin]

OK, I changed forumdisplay... this line... and it added the numbers back.


$meta['keywords'] = ' ' . preg_replace( '~[^ a-zA-Z0-9]~' , '' , $meta['keywords'] );


Anyone know how I can also get my "-" back? The model numbers for me are pretty key.

[smestas]

I just finished installing vbArchive and my results are all messed up! I have no clue on where to start to fix it or where to begin to remove it.

HELP!

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/archive

I was previously running Easy Archive but it stoped working for me when I recently swithched hosting companies.

[mccollin]

Sounds like this may be part of the problem...


The script uses Apache's ForceType directive. Most of Apache servers have it installed by default.
Check with your host to make sure the module is installed.

[smestas]

mccollin,

You hit the nail on the head! I contacted the server admin and they dont support that ForceType mod. He did however say that they do support AddType. Does that make any differance?

[mccollin]

I don't think it makes a difference for this one... it requires ForceType. There are other similar hacks that don't. PM me if you are looking for another hosting option... I may be able to help you out.

[smestas]

mccollin,

Thanks for the hosting offer but I've already commited to a 1 year plan.

Is there no fixes for the non ForceType Mod or is there another good search engine hack that any one else can recomend?

HELP!

[mccollin]

Do a search on archive and you should find the other hacks. You may still have problems because they require other types of things that your host would likely need to enable.

[Doc203]

I installed this hack several mo's ago and I can get alta vista and a couple of others to index it, but have yet to see google. I have tried to submit my URL to Google once a month.

Anyone have any ideas, or willing to look at the site to help me get my site indexed by google etc?

[mccollin]

I've not seen Google hitting these pages either... very strange because Google is all over my site. Inktomi is hitting them, but not Google. I've even submitted the actual archive url to Google I think. I'm only a few weeks into it... I'll go a month or so and see what happens. I do know that my traffic and unique are up since doing this. My Google Adsense revenue is up. So far I've seen no difference in my LinkPop.

[Skyline_GT]

I got this error
Please check
http://www.gamerzonline.net/forum/archive/

[MaDCaT75]

I still dont see any google spiders coming to my forum www.sims2forums.com :cry:

Its been 3 weeks now :cry:

[Skyline_GT]

I got this error??

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.


Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@gamerzonline.net 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. Apache/1.3.28 Server at www.gamerzonline.net Port 80

[Skyline_GT]

anyone please help?

[mccollin]

Is it possible that your server doesn't support Apache's ForceType directive?

[Skyline_GT]

anyone can help?

[atomic fireball]

Are you using vBHomeLite as your home page? If so, you need to use the vBhome Search Engline add on for vbhome lite, and NOT the standard "stand alone" release hack.

[Skyline_GT]

no
I am using the vportal one..

[XYRUS]

Hy,

sounds like an fantastic hack which I would love to use. But I have one question. What happens with all my old links to forum threads which are already linked at many pages? Will the old links to these threads still work???

thanks for the answear!

[XYRUS]

I was so excited about the hack i just tried to install it today. But my previous question ist still very important to me.

Anyways i installed the hack but it doesn?t seem to work. I have done all the instructions step by step. I also read this hole thread but I didn?t find any help.

My page runs on a windows2000 server which has apache 2.0 installed (force directory is in the core, right?).

After i installed everything nothing changed in my forum. Also the forum archiv link, which should be like this: http://213.221.104.186/pcmax/forum/archive, doesnt work. It only shows the code...

I realllllly reeeaallly checked everything many times and also retried it often but I just wont get it to work.

Please help me...

[Lahey]

mine looks the same(shows PHP code on /archive).
This isn't right is it?
http://www.laheyforum.com/archive
If it isn't right I have no idea what to do to it from here.

[XYRUS]

Can´t nobody help me?

[drumsy]

I am experiencing the same problem just displaying the code and I confirmed with Rackshack that I am indeed running with the forcetype directive. What gives?

[Mickie D]

this is my favourite hack of all time :)

but i would like to ask you teck is it possable to make it so that i can make my forums private but have google or any other engine still crawl my archives ?

this would be gr8 then i would get more signups instead of people leeching bandwidth from my forums without getting involved ;)

Regards
Mickie D

[LT97B]

Is there anyway this will work with Zeus server?????????
I installed, its not working and I suspect its because my host uses Zeus.

Will any of these mod's work? maybe the ones around page 320?

http://support.zeus.com/doc/zws/v4/user_guide.pdf

Please help!!!! Thanks

[Skyline_GT]

anyone can help us?

[NightWalk8r]

i'm pretty sure this have been asked already......but i dont feel like looking thru 53 pages for the answer o_O

i just installed this and it's great!!! but how long does it take google to get all of my pages on their server?

[LT97B]

I did look through all the pages and it was not answered.........Zeus has re-write capability so there must be a way, with just a little help !

[darkmage]

http://www.ffantasy.com/boards/archive

Works like a charm! Thanks a lot. :)

[ugr|dual]

just wanted to say that this collection of vbarchive + additional hacks really did the job with search engines for our heavily hacked vb 2.3.0 system. using steps 1-4 of the suggested we now finally have google deep-crawling everything.

keep up the good work.

ugr|dual clicks install.

[Lahey]

Why won't mine work? It still shows just php code on /archive
I tried renaming the archive file to archive.php and that makes the php work but then none of the links on the page work. and the intstructions didn't say anything about renaming it to .php anyway. Is this a server problem?

[DjArcadian]

I just installed this script. What am I doing wrong? Look at my results at http://www.djshadowforum.com/forum/archive/
You can see the actual forum at http://www.djshadowforum.com/forum/

[NickCat]

oi wc3 is important :p

useragent checking

Works both standalone and as a very nice compliment to TECK's vbarchive hack.

What does it do?
Allows you to match the useragent for Guests in Who's Online and display custom names/urls for recognised useragents such as Google, Teoma, Inktomi etc

You can also use it for matching the useragent anywhere on vb, ie for Currently Active Users on forumhome. expect a jazzed up online.php with icons next to names for which browser people are using sometime.

Why?
Got bored of looking up IPs then digging around the session table trying to find out which guests were really web robots also nosey to see who was reading the archives.

Install
Instructions in the file, should work with 2.2.x
Install time, 3-5mins. level, medium.

List of Detected Web Robots (thanks to TECK for listing the main ones)
Last updated: 08/02/03 10pm GMT
googlebot www.google.com Google
gulliver www.northernlight.com Northern Light
ia_archiver www.archive.org The Internet Archive
internetseer www.internetseer.com Internet Seer
linkalarm linkalarm.com Link Alarm
mercator www.research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator Mercator
openbot www.openfind.com.tw Openbot
pingalink www.pingalink.com PingALink Monitor
psbot www.picsearch.com/bot.html PicSearch
scooter www.altavista.com AltaVista
slurp www.inktomi.com/slurp.html Inktomi
turnitinbot www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
slysearch www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
zeus www.waltbren.com/products/zeus_internet_robot.htm Zeus Internet Marketing
zyborg www.wisenutbot.com WiseNut
teoma www.teoma.com Teoma/Ask Jeeves

-- these last 3 are generic and will display the useragent on who's online with a link to robotstxt.org where you can look up the useragent for obsecure and new bots.

spider Web Spider
spyder Web Spyder
crawl Web Crawler
robot Web Robot

Screenshots?
Who's online:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?s=&postid=351495
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?s=&postid=351832
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?s=&postid=351533

Currently Active Users
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?s=&postid=351831

enjoy,
inph

thanks to floris for screenshots and testing

Thanks for the great addition to TECK's hack. There is a problem with the script though. In functions.php you have to edit "Teoma/Ask Jeeves" to "Teoma & Ask Jeeves" or something similar. With the original '/' in the name it believes you are passing /ask as a command line switch to your added code in index.php.

Hope this helps.

-Nick

[Lahey]

Anyone have any expected or guessed times about when v3.0 will be released?

[DjArcadian]

I just installed this script. What am I doing wrong? Look at my results at http://www.djshadowforum.com/forum/archive/
You can see the actual forum at http://www.djshadowforum.com/forum/

Scratch it. I just decided to upgrade to v3.

[verbum]

Why won't mine work? It still shows just php code on /archive
I tried renaming the archive file to archive.php and that makes the php work but then none of the links on the page work. and the intstructions didn't say anything about renaming it to .php anyway. Is this a server problem?

Lahey

Sounds like a problem with the .htaccess file. Assuming your Apache configuration includes ForceType, make sure that the code on the uploaded .htaccess (upload as txt then, rename to .htaccess) contains the arguments + expression + exact destination URL as indicated (the latter--URL--if incorrect would produce a 500 error, so it's likely not that).

[coolmile]

As soon as I put .htaccess file under the forum directory, nobody can access the directory. it shows forbidden error message on the browser. (Even an empty .htaccess file)

I think i have to add some directive or change apache conf file, but i don't know which one.

Need help please.

[Courage]

Ok, i use for 3 days google adsense

What i must write for adsense?

Mediapartners-Google*

or

Mediapartners-Google (no *) ?

I need this for Who's online hack and session hash stripping

10x

[SoLo OnE]

As soon as I put .htaccess file under the forum directory, nobody can access the directory. it shows forbidden error message on the browser. (Even an empty .htaccess file)

I think i have to add some directive or change apache conf file, but i don't know which one.

Need help please.


I have the same problem.

[ResellerForums]

We've got this great hack installed (thanks Teck!), and it works well except:

We have only four forums on our board, and they are all at the root level. That is, their "Forum Parent", as set in the admin, is "No one". (This is intentional, since we don't have enough forums to justify categorization.)

The problem is that on the archive page, the forum names aren't hyperlinked. It seems that this hack doesn't hyperlink forums at the root level because it assumes that they are not actually forums but categories.

Is there a way around this?

See http://www.rfidtalk.com/archive

You'll notice that RFID Forum and RFID Industry News are NOT hyperlinked even though they are actual forums, while Greater Impact of RFID and RFID Technology are (because they are children of test).

[replicon]

Damn.
This is impossible to run with IIS. :(

Thanks TECK for a great hack. Took about 30 minutes to figure out ISAPI Rewrite and hack your script to run with IIS, but works great! So it's not impossible with IIS :).

http://forums.beyond.ca/archive

[ChrisSy]

I installed this script a few months back, had no problems and very fast install

I am currently running my board in the root dir so archive is /archive , what files do i need to change if i want to move my board into another directory so the the archive would be /forum/archive?

[Dean C]

The .htaccess file if my memory serves me correctly :)

[TECK]

Thanks TECK for a great hack. Took about 30 minutes to figure out ISAPI Rewrite and hack your script to run with IIS, but works great! So it's not impossible with IIS :).

http://forums.beyond.ca/archive
Can you post the ISAPI Procedure? I'm interested... Thanks.

[atomic fireball]

Hi TECK, just wanted to say thanks for the excellent hack. We've had this installed for a few months now, (it's actually the add on to vBhome Lite), and although Google has been hitting our site nicely, we have yet to make a real dent in the Google index.

Everything seems to be synching up just fine, but I still don't understand if the "Unknown Location" issue is a bug or just a consmetic annoyance.

1. If a spider is hitting a page from the archive, and the Who's Online shows the "Unknown Location," is that a problem in terms of getting our site into google?

2. What/where is the varible to change the table content background color, width, centering of the archive? (It shows up as orange 90% and left justified on our board.)

Here's the link to our archive:
http://www.thedigitalreview.com/archive.html

Thanks for any help, and thanks for the work on putting this hack together! We really do appreciate it!

[LT97B]

I wish this archive thing would work on zeus servers!!! grr
I know zeus has mod_rewrite and so on I guess its just a matter of time until one of you guys figures out a way to make it work...... *sigh*

[replicon]

Can you post the ISAPI Procedure? I'm interested... Thanks.

Sure, here's the procedure.

1. Install ISAPI Rewrite Free Version (works great if you only host 1 site on IIS)

2. In ISAPI Rewrite's httpd.ini, add the following entries:
RewriteRule /archive /archive.php
RewriteRule /archive/(.*) /archive\.php\?param=/$1
RewriteRule /forumdisplay/(.*) /forumdisplay2\.php\?param=/$1
RewriteRule /showthread/(.*) /showthread2\.php\?param=/$1
This will rewrite /archive, /forumdisplay and /showthread into it's equivilent .php files. We can't use no extension, IIS does not support that properly. This also rewrites the remainder of the URL into the query parameter "param", as IIS will display file not found if you add / after the forumdisplay and showthread urls.

3. In forumdisplay.txt and showthread.txt, replace the line :
$endbit = strrchr( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] , '/' );
with :
$endbit = strrchr( $HTTP_GET_VARS['param'] , '/' );
This will extract the remaining URL as a parameter since we moved it to a parameter.

4. Rename archive.txt to archive.php, forumdisplay.txt to forumdisplay2.php, and showthread.txt to showthread2.php, and copy to your live upload directory.

[ResellerForums]

We've got this great hack installed (thanks Teck!), and it works well except:

We have only four forums on our board, and they are all at the root level. That is, their "Forum Parent", as set in the admin, is "No one". (This is intentional, since we don't have enough forums to justify categorization.)

The problem is that on the archive page, the forum names aren't hyperlinked. It seems that this hack doesn't hyperlink forums at the root level because it assumes that they are not actually forums but categories.

Is there a way around this?

See http://www.rfidtalk.com/archive

You'll notice that RFID Forum and RFID Industry News are NOT hyperlinked even though they are actual forums, while Greater Impact of RFID and RFID Technology are (because they are children of test).

For those interested in a solution, here it is: comment out lines 113, 114, and 116 in archive. So lines 106-119 look like this:

if ( $forumperms['canview'] )
{
if ( empty( $forum['description'] ) )
{
$forum['description'] = 'No description available.';
}
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_categorytitle' ) . '";' );
// COMMENTED OUT TO FORCE HYPERLINKING OF FORUMS WITH NO PARENT: if ( $forum['parentid'] != '-1' )
// COMMENTED OUT TO FORCE HYPERLINKING OF FORUMS WITH NO PARENT: {
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumtitle' ) . '";' );
// COMMENTED OUT TO FORCE HYPERLINKING OF FORUMS WITH NO PARENT: }
eval( '$forumbits .= "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumbit' ) . '";' );
$forumbits .= showforums( $forum['forumid'] , $spacer . '&nbsp; &nbsp; ' , $forumperms );
}

[replicon]

Finally got spidered, and all I can say is WOW.

Guest usercount went from avg of 20 to avg of 90. And we only have 8500 pages spidered (should be about 28,000).

[LT97B]

Is my hosting co the only co that uses zeus instead of apache or isapi?

[Domenico]

This addon really does work very well.

Our site www.webhostingtalk.nl has more then 11.000 results in google. :)

It is recommended for everybody!

[TECK]

This addon really does work very well.

Our site www.webhostingtalk.nl has more then 11.000 results in google. :)

It is recommended for everybody!
Thanks. All you have to do left is to add the copyright at the bottom of the web site (links and text), the way it's supposed to be.

Regards,
Floren.

[Domenico]

Oh, I will add that info as soon as I have time for it. Sorry, I don't remember me removing it as I normally hate when people do such things.

Anyways, is this addon final or do you see any 'improvements' or 'extra functionality' in the near future?

[Coordinator Inc]

vbArchive v1.3 Released
250,000 Google pages (http://www.google.ca/search?q=showthread/t-&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8) (and counting...) indexed so far. Congratulations to all users!

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.3:
I added the number of threads and posts for each forum.
The problem with a static page like the main archive page (as well the category ones) was that it never changed.
Now, every time a crawler visit the page, it will see new elements changed, since the number of threads and posts will always change.
Take a look at my archive (http://www.teckwizards.com/archive/), until FireFly updates the vBulletin.org one.
[/b]


Man, I PMed you a week ago.
I need this script to be installed on 2 of my forums for a fee.
Can you do it please?
Let me know either way.
Thanks.

[dssforum]

Can someome please install this for me been at it all week with no luck trying to install it on www.tsxclub.com

messege me on AIM : FerrariG2

[dssforum]

I keep getting this error :

<?php
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
// | Search Engine Indexer for vBulletin (Script by TECK)
// | http://www.teckwizards.com/
// | + archive
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
error_reporting( E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE );

$templatesused = 'archive,archive_homekeytag,archive_forumbit,archi ve_categorytitle,archive_forumtitle,archive_homein fo';
require_once( './global.php' );

if ( !$permissions['canview'] )
{
archive_nopermission();
}

// +--------------------------------------------------------------
// | Forums
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
function showforums( $forumid=-1 , $spacer='' , $permission='' )
{
global $DB_site,$bburl,$bbuserinfo,$session,$enableaccess ,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$iaccesscache,$usergroup def,$noperms;

if ( !is_array( $permission ) )
{
$permission = getpermissions( 0 , -1 , $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] );
$usergroupdef = $permission;
}

if ( !isset( $iforumcache ) )
{
$iforums = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,parentid,displayorder,threadcount,replycou nt,title,description
FROM forum
WHERE displayorder<>0 AND active=1
ORDER BY parentid,displayorder,forumid
");
while ( $iforum = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iforums ) )
{
$iforumcache["$iforum[parentid]"]["$iforum[displayorder]"]["$iforum[forumid]"] = $iforum;
}
$DB_site->free_result( $iforums );
unset( $iforum );

$iforumperms = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,canview
FROM forumpermission
WHERE usergroupid='$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]'
");
while ( $iforumperm = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iforumperms ) )
{
$ipermcache["$iforumperm[forumid]"] = $iforumperm;
}
$DB_site->free_result( $iforumperms );
unset( $iforumperm );

$noperms['canview'] = 0;

if ( $bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0 and $enableaccess == 1 )
{
$iaccessperms = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,accessmask
FROM access
WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'
");
while ( $iaccessperm = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iaccessperms ) )
{
$iaccesscache["$iaccessperm[forumid]"] = $iaccessperm;
}
unset( $iaccessperm );
$DB_site->free_result( $iaccessperms );
}
else
{
$iaccesscache = '';
}
}
if ( !is_array( $iforumcache["$forumid"] ) )
{
return;
}

while ( list( $key1 , $val1 ) = each( $iforumcache["$forumid"] ) )
{
while ( list( $key2 , $forum ) = each( $val1 ) )
{
if ( is_array( $iaccesscache["$forum[forumid]"] ) )
{
if ( $iaccesscache["$forum[forumid]"]['accessmask'] == 1 )
{
$forumperms = $usergroupdef;
}
else
{
$forumperms = $noperms;
}
}
elseif ( is_array( $ipermcache["$forum[forumid]"] ) )
{
$forumperms = $ipermcache["$forum[forumid]"];
}
else
{
$forumperms = $permission;
}
if ( $forumperms['canview'] )
{
if ( empty( $forum['description'] ) )
{
$forum['description'] = 'No description available.';
}
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_categorytitle' ) . '";' );
if ( $forum['parentid'] != '-1' )
{
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumtitle' ) . '";' );
}
eval( '$forumbits .= "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumbit' ) . '";' );
$forumbits .= showforums( $forum['forumid'] , $spacer . '&nbsp; &nbsp; ' , $forumperms );
}
}
}

return $forumbits;
}

$showforumbits = showforums();
$showthreadbits = '';
$showpostbits = '';

$username = 'visitor';
if ( $bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0 )
{
$username = $bbuserinfo['username'];
}

$headertitle = 'Home';
eval( '$metakeytags = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_homekeytag' ) . '";' );

$navbar = $bbtitle . ' Archive';
$pagenav = '&nbsp;';
eval( '$pagetitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_homeinfo' ) . '";' );

eval( 'dooutput( "' . gettemplate( 'archive' ) . '" );' );

?>

[dssforum]

<a href="http://www.tsxclub.com/forums/archive" target="_blank">http://www.tsxclub.com/forums/archive</a> is it a problem if we have "s" forums instead of forum? what is causing this error and how can it be fixed! Thanks! Getting same error on both of my forums

[Onkel_Tom]

This is not an error ! Your Webserver just open the complete archive file and show you the syntax.
I think you have a problem with Apache's ForceType directive.
Just try to copy archive to archive.php and try to open this file.
But first look at this CHANGES (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342448#post342448)

[dssforum]

Thx for the reply buddy!!

Now I get this http://www.tsxclub.com/forums/archive.php

The page opens but the links dont work any help is appriciated!

[Onkel_Tom]

yep, your Server has a problem with Apache's ForceType directive !

Please check the syntax of your .htaccess file
For me the following CHANGE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=416224&postcount=647) fix the problem.
If not ask your Webspaceprovider or administrator of the server how to handle the ForceType syntax.

[yavar]

i have a problem .
this hack haven't index.php file !
index.php isn't in attachment zip file !
I do all works that written in readme file !but it dosen't work !

[dssforum]

yep, your Server has a problem with Apache's ForceType directive !

Please check the syntax of your .htaccess file
For me the following CHANGE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=416224&postcount=647) fix the problem.
If not ask your Webspaceprovider or administrator of the server how to handle the ForceType syntax.
my host said we have it installed by default anything else that might of cause this problem?

[yavar]

i have a problem .
this hack haven't index.php file !
index.php isn't in attachment zip file !
I do all works that written in readme file !but it dosen't work !

[coolmile]

i have a problem .
this hack haven't index.php file !
index.php isn't in attachment zip file !
I do all works that written in readme file !but it dosen't work !


you don't need index.php file. you need to make .htaccess works.

see my site. http://tarantulas.us/forums/archive/

[obschina]

Thank you TECK...I installed this, let's see where I get with it!

-obs

[Khashyar]

Hi guys...

I have used vbarchive with very good results...

HOWEVER, I just upgraded from VB 2.30 (where vbarchive worked fine), to VB 2.34, where installing vbarchive creates an error in my forum...

Have others found that vbarchive does NOT work with the new VB 2.34???

Thanks for your feedback and help...

Khashyar

[Onkel_Tom]

If you use the upgrade script to update to 2.3.4 you have to install the hack again because the templates will be lost.
Therefore I update to newer version by hand without using the updatescript;)
I use also vB 2.3.4 with vBArchive and it works

[Khashyar]

thanks for the reply, Tom...

I discovered the problem... I was trying to use the same edited functions.php file that I used with my 2.30 VB..... I needed to take the new 2.34 functions.php file and reinsert the ad-on code from the VBArchive hack....

Now it seems to work...

Thanks for your reply....

Khashyar

[bigdaddy04]

Is this script good for vBulletin Version 2.3.3 ?

[Khashyar]

big daddy....

I'm sure that it also works with 2.3.3

[Skyline_GT]

work perfect http://www.gamerzplanet.net/forums/archive

[AN-net]

i type http://www.animationation.net/community/archive/ and i get errors:(

[dgessler]

Anyone know what's wrong with this? Followed instructions, and when I try to open vbarchive.php I get the following:

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/aimforum/public_html/archive/admin/vbarchive.php on line 8

Warning: main(): Failed opening './global.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/aimforum/public_html/archive/admin/vbarchive.php on line 8

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: cpheader() in /home/aimforum/public_html/archive/admin/vbarchive.php on line 165

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Dan

[armani1072]

i get page cannot be viewed error when going to http://www.precisionmuscle.org/archive/ i followed the instructions to a T. the only thing is that i am running vb 2.3.4. am i missing something?

[armani1072]

nevermind i got it. thanks anyway :D

[Still Waters]

Hey guys, I'm stuck at step 1.

1)
httpd.conf needs editing to enable and configure mod_rewrite. Here's all the relevent bits from my httpd.conf. It can go anywhere between the <VirtualHost> & </VirtualHost> tags.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?threadid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]

I put this into my root .htaccess file, and (right away) my site didn't work anymore (so I removed it again). What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

[dr1]

I have 1000's of pages spidered using this hack, it's wonderful, thanks.

I want to move to vB3, how can I do this and not effect all my pages.
I noticed that the archive in vB3 works a little differently.

Any suggestions or tips on doing the migration?

Thanks.

[Skyline_GT]

WHat do I need to do if I got Internal Server Error?

[DoMiN8ToR]

Yes a version for Vbulletin 3 would be much appreciated!

[blakkboy]

im trying to use this hack with my forums but i cant seem to get it to work.

i did all the instructions and this is supposed to be my archive but look

www.tru-essence.net/forum/archive/

[blakkboy]

i get all this


<?php
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
// | Search Engine Indexer for vBulletin (Script by TECK)
// | http://www.teckwizards.com/
// | + archive
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
error_reporting( E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE );

$templatesused = 'archive,archive_homekeytag,archive_forumbit,archi ve_categorytitle,archive_forumtitle,archive_homein fo';
require_once( './global.php' );

if ( !$permissions['canview'] )
{
archive_nopermission();
}

// +--------------------------------------------------------------
// | Forums
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
function showforums( $forumid=-1 , $spacer='' , $permission='' )
{
global $DB_site,$bburl,$bbuserinfo,$session,$enableaccess ,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$iaccesscache,$usergroup def,$noperms;

if ( !is_array( $permission ) )
{
$permission = getpermissions( 0 , -1 , $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] );
$usergroupdef = $permission;
}

if ( !isset( $iforumcache ) )
{
$iforums = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,parentid,displayorder,threadcount,replycou nt,title,description
FROM forum
WHERE displayorder<>0 AND active=1
ORDER BY parentid,displayorder,forumid
");
while ( $iforum = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iforums ) )
{
$iforumcache["$iforum[parentid]"]["$iforum[displayorder]"]["$iforum[forumid]"] = $iforum;
}
$DB_site->free_result( $iforums );
unset( $iforum );

$iforumperms = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,canview
FROM forumpermission
WHERE usergroupid='$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]'
");
while ( $iforumperm = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iforumperms ) )
{
$ipermcache["$iforumperm[forumid]"] = $iforumperm;
}
$DB_site->free_result( $iforumperms );
unset( $iforumperm );

$noperms['canview'] = 0;

if ( $bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0 and $enableaccess == 1 )
{
$iaccessperms = $DB_site->query("
SELECT forumid,accessmask
FROM access
WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'
");
while ( $iaccessperm = $DB_site->fetch_array( $iaccessperms ) )
{
$iaccesscache["$iaccessperm[forumid]"] = $iaccessperm;
}
unset( $iaccessperm );
$DB_site->free_result( $iaccessperms );
}
else
{
$iaccesscache = '';
}
}
if ( !is_array( $iforumcache["$forumid"] ) )
{
return;
}

while ( list( $key1 , $val1 ) = each( $iforumcache["$forumid"] ) )
{
while ( list( $key2 , $forum ) = each( $val1 ) )
{
if ( is_array( $iaccesscache["$forum[forumid]"] ) )
{
if ( $iaccesscache["$forum[forumid]"]['accessmask'] == 1 )
{
$forumperms = $usergroupdef;
}
else
{
$forumperms = $noperms;
}
}
elseif ( is_array( $ipermcache["$forum[forumid]"] ) )
{
$forumperms = $ipermcache["$forum[forumid]"];
}
else
{
$forumperms = $permission;
}
if ( $forumperms['canview'] )
{
if ( empty( $forum['description'] ) )
{
$forum['description'] = 'No description available.';
}
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_categorytitle' ) . '";' );
if ( $forum['parentid'] != '-1' )
{
eval( '$forumtitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumtitle' ) . '";' );
}
eval( '$forumbits .= "' . gettemplate( 'archive_forumbit' ) . '";' );
$forumbits .= showforums( $forum['forumid'] , $spacer . '&nbsp; &nbsp; ' , $forumperms );
}
}
}

return $forumbits;
}

$showforumbits = showforums();
$showthreadbits = '';
$showpostbits = '';

$username = 'visitor';
if ( $bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0 )
{
$username = $bbuserinfo['username'];
}

$headertitle = 'Home';
eval( '$metakeytags = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_homekeytag' ) . '";' );

$navbar = $bbtitle . ' Archive';
$pagenav = '&nbsp;';
eval( '$pagetitle = "' . gettemplate( 'archive_homeinfo' ) . '";' );

eval( 'dooutput( "' . gettemplate( 'archive' ) . '" );' );

?>

[michaelab]

When I go to your archive blakkboy (at www.tru-essence.net/forum/archive/) I get:

Not Found
The requested URL /forum/archive/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.tru-essence.net Port 80

Which suggests to me it hasn't been installed correctly but I know very little about this hack so I wouldn't know what was wrong.

Michael.

[cirisme]

Yes a version for Vbulletin 3 would be much appreciated!
Not needed since vb3 includes its own :)

[blakkboy]

When I go to your archive blakkboy (at www.tru-essence.net/forum/archive/) I get:

Not Found
The requested URL /forum/archive/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.tru-essence.net Port 80

Which suggests to me it hasn't been installed correctly but I know very little about this hack so I wouldn't know what was wrong.

Michael.



alright so could someone let me know what ive done wrong

[DoMiN8ToR]

Not needed since vb3 includes its own :)

Yes, but it's not as nice as this one and it's not URL compatible...

[limey]

The vb3 archive imo is inferior to Teck's version. I personally wish I never upgraded, so if you are on the fence, thats my story for you.

[eoc_Jason]

I just did some URL rewriting to redirect my old archive from this (and another hack) to all go to the new vB3 archive... Search Engines and traffic haven't missed a beat....

Since the new & old archives use a different amount of pages & posts per threads, I didn't do exact page redirects, only threads...

Anyhow, here's my 4 rewrites... 2 for one other old archive hack , and 2 for this archive hack.


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/archive/forum/(\d+)-(\d+)
RewriteRule ^/archive/forum/(\d+)-(\d+) http://forums.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/f-$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/archive/topic/(\d+)-(\d+)
RewriteRule ^/archive/topic/(\d+)-(\d+) http://forums.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/t-$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forumdisplay/f-(\d+)
RewriteRule ^/forumdisplay/f-(\d+) http://forums.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/f-$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/showthread/t-(\d+)
RewriteRule ^/showthread/t-(\d+) http://forums.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/t-$1 [R=301,L]

[limey]

I just did some URL rewriting to redirect my old archive from this (and another hack) to all go to the new vB3 archive... Search Engines and traffic haven't missed a beat....




My way seems easier, am I missing something you are doing that I'm not?

RewriteRule showthread/t-(.*).html$ http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule forumdisplay/f-(.*).html$ http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-$1 [R,L]


Still wish we could get titles in the vb3 archive anyone figured that out yet?

[Vb-Hispano]

Migration a vb3.0 is possible?

thanks

[MogKnight]

Thanks for the hack, however, I'm having some problems...

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

it caches the archive index, and the main forum pages- but NO threads.

why is this? do I have to wait yet another month?

[MogKnight]

anyone know?

[clubplanet]

Had no problems converting this to work with the built-in vB3 archive. Just had to add these 2 lines to Apache's httpd.conf:

RedirectMatch permanent /showthread/(.*) /archive/index.php/$1
RedirectMatch permanent /forumdisplay/(.*) /archive/index.php/$1

All the Google links now work...

[parajsa]

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?

Runnin Vbulletin 2.3.5

:ermm:

[kaosmoon]

Thanks to you for the mod.

I know jack about programming and i got this to work. Talk about user friendly!

Thanks again, so cool!

[imageconstrux]

n/m - figured out a workaround...

[imageconstrux]

n/m - figured it out

[laeth]

hm, slight prolem. Mt ftp wont let me rename the archive file. When ever I rename the archive.txt file to just 'archive' it deletes itself, or once refreshed just renames itself to 'archive.txt'.

Any ideas? Does the archive vbulletin folder have anything to do with it?

[imageconstrux]

It seems that vB 2 has become the red-headed stepchild, since vB 3 came out. So I'm not the best guy to answer this, but if I don't, it's likely nobody will.

Does the same thing happen to the other files that you drop the .txt from?

[MRGTB]

I'm a little confused here, I have installed the useragent mod, but there is a section of code at the bottom of the mod that I need to add and the instuctions dont seem to tell you were to put it.

It seems to say it goes in online.php, can anbody help. Becuase I see nothing there in the code I posted below taken from the mod that I need to install, that tell you were to put it.

## No more changes to forum/global.php
## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##


## function for user ip address checking
## matches full/part of an ip address
## might be useful for people who dont have a .htaccess file
## or those who want to identify bots who dont supply a valid or a cloaked
## useragent. probably should be called on return of 0 from useragentcheck
## in online.php
##
## i think its unnecessary. also the ip address matching isnt great since php
## cant handle CIDR addresses so either you break the ip address up and match
## values or you use ranges (as below) which will also identify ip outside
## the allocated range
## ie crawler918.com
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-209-192-1
## 12.148.209.192/26
## /26 is 62 ip addresses identifying 12.148.209. means that you're blocking 254 ip
## address which will exclude non rogue ips.
## ip address have a tendancy to change and would result in a fairly bit list.

function useripaddresscheck( $match_addr, $addr_code )
{

$addr = array(
'12.148.209.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.148.196.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.175.0.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',

'63.148.99.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance',
'65.118.41.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance'
);

foreach( $addr as $useraddr => $addrurl )
{
if ( preg_match ("/^\d+$/", $useraddr) )
{
$useraddr = $addrurl;
$addrurl = "Web Robot";
}

if ( preg_match ("/^". preg_quote ($useraddr) ."\d+/i", $match_addr) )
{
$addrinfo = preg_split ("/\|\|\|/", $addrurl);
if (!($addrinfo[1])) {
$addrinfo[0] = "http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active.html";
$addrinfo[1] = "Web Robot ".$useraddr."*";
}

switch ($addr_code) {
case 0:
return 1;
break;
case 1:
return $addrinfo[1];
break;
case 2:
return '</a><a href="http://'. $addrinfo[0] .'" alt="'. $addrinfo[1] .'"><i>'. $addrinfo[1] .'</i>';
break;
}
}
}

}

## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##

[gsk8]

I recently upgraded to 3.5 and wondered if this upgrade "overwrote" and I would need to re-install? Thanks!

[Ch3W]

Hmm... can I add custom headers to this script? I'd like to include my site menu at the top. Thanks

Thanks

[Kiriaki]

Can i install it to Vbulletin 3.6.8?? is there something new to use??

[onehost]

Can i install it to Vbulletin 3.6.8?? is there something new to use??

hrmm, the last real post was back in 2004, scripts die out
quickly when modders do not support them anymore.

why would anyone setup a v2.2 on a v3.6.8 anyway...
I wouldnt even think it would work...

[peterle1]

Can i install it to Vbulletin 3.6.8?? is there something new to use??

What for, there is an archive already in vb?