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gmarik
03-13-2004, 08:44 PM
I would want to have in the place of
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56)
something like:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine)

In the forum info DB a new field would be added "searchenginefriend" where the board 56 would have medicine written and my Apache would do the rest with mod_rewrite or something of that kind. Is it possible with vB3?
filburt1
03-13-2004, 09:00 PM
I would want to have in the place of
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56)
something like:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine)

In the forum info DB a new field would be added "searchenginefriend" where the board 56 would have medicine written and my Apache would do the rest with mod_rewrite or something of that kind. Is it possible with vB3?
Inefficient to query, but also tedious to rewrite. The queryless route:

RewriteRule /forum/medicine /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56
gmarik
03-13-2004, 09:20 PM
Something more automatic? Any idea?
gmarik
03-13-2004, 10:24 PM
Inefficient to query, but also tedious to rewrite. The queryless route:

RewriteRule /forum/medicine /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)fid/(.*)$ $forumdisplay.php?f=$2
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^chat forumdisplay.php?f=10

does not work for "chat" ... any ideas what is wrong with the above examples
filburt1
03-13-2004, 10:32 PM
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)fid/(.*)$ $forumdisplay.php?f=$2
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^chat forumdisplay.php?f=10

does not work for "chat" ... any ideas what is wrong with the above examples
I would avoid doing this entirely. You are emulating directories and all of your images (and in my experience, even quick reply in vB3, of all things) gets broken.

Look at the links at my forum to see what I did as per an SEO suggestion of one of my moderators. It preserves the ID so that doesn't result in any queries.
gmarik
03-14-2004, 05:36 AM
Filburt, no images are broken!