DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[Dean C]

I'm not 100% on this but what does the W3C schema say about non-english characters in URI's?

[Greivog]

Is there a way to get this working on windows based servers?

Thanks

Paul

[peety]

Has the 301 permanent redirect issue been solved in this release?

[Nutz]

Is there any chance of getting the "Last Post" links on the forum home to be the same SEO format?

Thanks,
Mat

[xtreme-mobile]

how can we get it to convert the actual post them selves? can this be done cos all its doing on mine is the thgread titles not the actaual post?

any one know?

cheers

[mfizzel]

Dean C thank you so much for all of your work on this, I've yet to install (haven't upgraded to 3.5 from 3.0.x) but I'm following this thread very closely and this will be one of the first plugins I install for my 3.5 board.

I also look forward to your latest update of this code that you mentioned, I'd also be happy to donate towards this project - the time you spend on this is greatly appreciated :)

[yinyang]

this is working great for my forum titles. but the thread titles aren't showing the titles. any ideas what may be wrong?

[Nutz]

Got a link yinyang?

Thanks,
Mat

[mfizzel]

I installed it, it installed flawlessly.

My forum titles and thread titles are all now in .html format with proper thread titles, this is quite awesome :D...I've yet to run into any issues, but I've only been running it for today.

* mfizzel clicks install

[StarBuG]

Hi

Thank you for this plugin but there is an issue.

I have specified a subforum as a link.
The rewrite works just fine up to the link forum.
After that all urls are the normal forum urls with no rewrite.

take a look:
http://www.hiphop-battles.com/forum/index.php
(below "Beatbox Tutorials" it stops)

the issue is only present on the index page.

Any idea where the problem is?

[Dean C]

It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment :) And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread :)

[StarBuG]

It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment :) And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread :)

If you need more beta tester let me know ;)

[Glovebox]

Installed & promptly uninstalled. Even with the newest version it didnt list correctly any forums that are listed under forums that are links.

[mfizzel]

DC, if you could release a google sitemap hack that works with this, you'd be KING :D

[ILTK]

It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment :) And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread :)

Woot, last thing I was waiting for was the forum clean urls working when you have subforums as links in the cell headers, super :)

But, wouldnt the lastpost be tagged as duplicate though? - there is the clean url pointing to the thread, and then the lastpost is still php?

I guess it's easy to get around, you can just do a conditional and check if the visitor is logged in, if they are then show the lastpost links, if not, don't show them. I allready do that with the print-thread link, I have seen google bot spider the print-thread links even with rel=nofollow on it, don't know if it indexes it, but you never know.

[ILTK]

Subforums as links in the cell headers on forumhome still doesn't work.

After some messing around with different settings, as far as I can tell, as soon as you have a forum where you have it setup so the subforums shows as links in the tablecell below, AND you set the parent forum to 'act as forum=yes' then the rewrite will stop working from that point on.

This setup causes rewrite links to stop working:

Main forum (Act as forum=yes)
-- subforum1 subforum2 subforum 3
(Any forums below this point is also not rewritten no matter what settings)

If I have the same setup and set 'Main forum' in the example above to 'Act as forum=no' then everything works.

Hope this helps a little figuring out this bug.

EDIT: add to the above, if you have any subforum in the above setup where it is a link (Enter an url in 'Forum Link') then it also stops working.

[Zhen-Xjell]

We have second, third and forth tier subforums displaying and re-writing with no issues.

[ILTK]

We have second, third and forth tier subforums displaying and re-writing with no issues.

Try and add a subforum that is a link (Add forum, enter 'Forum Link')

Like this:

Main Forum
--Subfoum
---- ChildForum1 Childforum2(Link) <= Stops working from here and any forums after.

No biggie, I can live without that functionallity, I'll just ad the links I had like that to the navbar or something.

[StarBuG]

Try and add a subforum that is a link (Add forum, enter 'Forum Link')

Like this:

Main Forum
--Subfoum
---- ChildForum1 Childforum2(Link) <= Stops working from here and any forums after.

No biggie, I can live without that functionallity, I'll just ad the links I had like that to the navbar or something.

He has a working beta that is currently tested before release so be patient ;)

[Zhen-Xjell]

Try and add a subforum that is a link (Add forum, enter 'Forum Link')

Like this:

Main Forum
--Subfoum
---- ChildForum1 Childforum2(Link) <= Stops working from here and any forums after.

No biggie, I can live without that functionallity, I'll just ad the links I had like that to the navbar or something.

I understand, let me try it.

[Dean C]

Subforums as links in the cell headers on forumhome still doesn't work.

After some messing around with different settings, as far as I can tell, as soon as you have a forum where you have it setup so the subforums shows as links in the tablecell below, AND you set the parent forum to 'act as forum=yes' then the rewrite will stop working from that point on.

This setup causes rewrite links to stop working:

Main forum (Act as forum=yes)
-- subforum1 subforum2 subforum 3
(Any forums below this point is also not rewritten no matter what settings)

If I have the same setup and set 'Main forum' in the example above to 'Act as forum=no' then everything works.

Hope this helps a little figuring out this bug.

EDIT: add to the above, if you have any subforum in the above setup where it is a link (Enter an url in 'Forum Link') then it also stops working.

As I have said earlier in the thread, this bug has been fixed in the latest beta. I don't have time to release this beta right now but shall do in the next 1-2 weeks (unless someone wants to do my essays ;)).

[ILTK]

As I have said earlier in the thread, this bug has been fixed in the latest beta. I don't have time to release this beta right now but shall do in the next 1-2 weeks (unless someone wants to do my essays ;)).

Ah, sorry I read it as you had updated it allready

[Brandon Sheley]

this look good, i clicked install just so i can track it, more then likely ill try it :D

i went ahead and installed. .works great :) thx
and best of all, its not 150$..hehe

[RobK]

There's another bug, so it is no langer possible to join 2 threads in a new on with this extension installed ...

[Dean C]

There's another bug, so it is no langer possible to join 2 threads in a new on with this extension installed ...

I'm aware of this, I don't have time to look right now as I'm online in class, but I'm sure there's a nice little plugin location that we can use to solve this problem :)

[SB2002]

Installed, works perfectly on 3.5.1. I have one question though, on vbadvanced the individual news posts on the main page don't use the optimised code when you click on the news item, is there any way I can fix this or should I just leave it as is?

BTW, i have to say, great hack, thanks for bringing it to the masses for free :D

[yinyang]

Got a link yinyang?

Thanks,
Mat

yup, Studio City Forum (http://studiocityforum.com/) .

thanks for looking into it. i greatly appreciate it. the forums show up properly, but the threads don't. weird!

[Dean C]

Installed, works perfectly on 3.5.1. I have one question though, on vbadvanced the individual news posts on the main page don't use the optimised code when you click on the news item, is there any way I can fix this or should I just leave it as is?

BTW, i have to say, great hack, thanks for bringing it to the masses for free :D

The way I optimize this is on a per-need basis. vBadvanced is a third-party script and I have no idea how it works. If someone wants to look into what the THIS_SCRIPT constant is in the vBadvanced file and whether or not it uses its own global.php/init.php, and contributes code which follows the current structure, I'll include it in the release. But i'd rather not get into providing support for third-party addons :)

[Dean C]

yup, Studio City Forum (http://studiocityforum.com/) .

thanks for looking into it. i greatly appreciate it. the forums show up properly, but the threads don't. weird!

Your threads appear rewritten for me.

[gael11]

Sorry if the question have been asked but is it possible to rewrite this letters: ? ? ? because in french theirs are very used. Thanks ;)

[Dean C]

Sorry if the question have been asked but is it possible to rewrite this letters: ? ? ? because in french theirs are very used. Thanks ;)

If someone can find me any documentation on foreign characters in URI's i'll look into it.

[Zhen-Xjell]

If someone can find me any documentation on foreign characters in URI's i'll look into it.

No worries mate, I have the code working in full already for foreign characters. I'll PM you the link to my site so you can see (the site is not yet ready for public release -- but close). I'll get that code to you Dean C.

[Zhen-Xjell]

It appears your account doesn't permit PMs nor emails.

[Zhen-Xjell]

It appears your account doesn't permit PMs nor emails.

I've done this work for Googletap: http://googletap.com and you can see it implemented here (in phpbb and phpnuke):

http://castlecops.com/f167-Unterst?tzung_f?r_Ad_Aware.html
http://castlecops.com/c42-Espa?ol.html

Actually...

One of my admins already posted the link publicly:

So here you go, the vBulletin implementation (remember, we're not "live" yet -- still setting up the logo, template, etc -- so take pity ;) ):

http://de.castlecops.com/forum/f7-unterst?tzung-f?r-ad-aware.html
http://de.castlecops.com/forum/t4-der-gro?e-test.html
http://de.castlecops.com/forum/t21-online-w?rterbuchdictionary.html

[Dean C]

Paul, pop in the vB.org chat and we can chat there (if I'm around). I don't want to just go changing the character class to (.*) purely for optimization reasons.

[Dean C]

No worries mate, I have the code working in full already for foreign characters. I'll PM you the link to my site so you can see (the site is not yet ready for public release -- but close). I'll get that code to you Dean C.

This isn't exactly what I'm looking to do. I know how to get it working with foreign characters, I just don't know what the W3C spec is on allowing such characters as ? in URI's :)

[Zhen-Xjell]

Paul, pop in the vB.org chat and we can chat there (if I'm around). I don't want to just go changing the character class to (.*) purely for optimization reasons.

What gave you the impression I'm using (.*)? I don't code that way.

I'm all hex on this one.

[yinyang]

Your threads appear rewritten for me.

OMG, that's the weirdest thing. can anyone also see if they appear rewritten for them? Studio City Forum (http://studiocityforum.com)

Dean C, do you have any idea why the forum headings appear rewritten for me, but the threads do not?

[Nutz]

Seems to work fine for me yinyang :/

Thanks,
Mat

[mfizzel]

OMG, that's the weirdest thing. can anyone also see if they appear rewritten for them? Studio City Forum (http://studiocityforum.com)

Dean C, do you have any idea why the forum headings appear rewritten for me, but the threads do not?

it works : http://studiocityforum.com/t6-any-good-babysitters-or-day-care.html

Maybe clear your cache/cookies?

[yinyang]

it works : http://studiocityforum.com/t6-any-good-babysitters-or-day-care.html

Maybe clear your cache/cookies?

that sort of worked. thanks for the suggestion. here's where it stands now, and can people who have this working, let me know if this is right.

on the forum home page, the forum names now come up in the URL. however, the thread titles in the URL in the last post section still show "showthreadX". however, in the forumdisplay, the thread titles show up in the url.

is that normal? if not, what else do you think i'm doing wrong?

[Dean C]

The last post URLs are not rewritten on purpose, please see previous posts for an explanation as to why :)

[yinyang]

The last post URLs are not rewritten on purpose, please see previous posts for an explanation as to why :)

:o

found it.
read it.
totally agree.

thanks!

[StarBuG]

One more question

I use the hack "Latest Threads on Forumhome"
(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83230)

How can I make these URLs be rewritten as well?

Or are they and only don?t show up because of the forum link bug?

[Dean C]

One more question

I use the hack "Latest Threads on Forumhome"
(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83230)

How can I make these URLs be rewritten as well?

Or are they and only don?t show up because of the forum link bug?

No idea, someone else will have to write that for you as I have no idea what the variable is for the threadbits for this hack. And as I've said before I have no intentions of supporting any other modification :)

[yinyang]

One more question

I use the hack "Latest Threads on Forumhome"
(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83230)

How can I make these URLs be rewritten as well?

Or are they and only don?t show up because of the forum link bug?

i think the same logic applies here as to the Last Post on why these URLS shouldn't be rewritten. in essence, they are technically most recent Last Posts.

[Dean C]

i think the same logic applies here as to the Last Post on why these URLS shouldn't be rewritten. in essence, they are technically most recent Last Posts.

Not really, but it's a modification for vB. This modification is for vB, not for its modifications ;) If i went and did the rewriting for every modification, I'd have no time :)

[vau7]

Found another Bug!

If i want to rate the a thread with this URL:

http://www.rapmatics.de/t384-quotein-bisschen-rapquotep-free-download6-trackskinkerlitzchen.html

there will be an 403 Error!

If I open up this Thread per its real URL everything is normal.

[ILTK]

Regarding the last post and other links that will be treated as duplicate content, imo it makes more sense to remove them alltogether for guests (Spiders) with conditional statments in the templates.

That's what I have done, all links that are php versions of the pages that the hack rewrites I have removed with conditionals for guests, takes a couple hours but well worth it.

I have also removed archives and external.php because they leak the php versions to, if someone grabs your feed then other spiders can follow the links to the php versions from wherever feed is used.

[Dean C]

Regarding the last post and other links that will be treated as duplicate content, imo it makes more sense to remove them alltogether for guests (Spiders) with conditional statments in the templates.

That's what I have done, all links that are php versions of the pages that the hack rewrites I have removed with conditionals for guests, takes a couple hours but well worth it.

I have also removed archives and external.php because they leak the php versions to, if someone grabs your feed then other spiders can follow the links to the php versions from wherever feed is used.

Remember not all guests are spiders. The last post even serves a function to guests who don't bother to register. As the new post indicators work off a cookie/session :)

[ILTK]

Yeah I know, but I'd rather downgrade slightly for guests and not risk dupe content, I have of course tried using the forums as a guest and evaluated the changes, and unless you know vbulletin well, you'd never know what was missing, if you do it right it's very small changes overall, like missing lastpost links/lastpost.gifs, just show last post dates instead with no link, sort links on forumdisplays I just downgraded to text instead of a link etc..

And hey, more reasons for real visitors to register :)

[kafi]

I would love to have this hack, but I need this for 8852-2 charset.

How do I accomplish this. There must be some way to tell that certain character si equal to another charakter like:
é = e

Thank you

[Dean C]

I would love to have this hack, but I need this for 8852-2 charset.

How do I accomplish this. There must be some way to tell that certain character si equal to another charakter like:
? = e

Thank you

I'm not going to set it up to allow foreign characters yet until I see documentation on how foreign characters are allowed in URLs.

[Okie]

Thanks and i hope the you add some of the VBseo feature :)

chick install :)

[vau7]

Found another Bug!

If i want to rate the a thread with this URL:

http://www.rapmatics.de/t384-quotein-bisschen-rapquotep-free-download6-trackskinkerlitzchen.html
there will be an 403 Error!

If I open up this Thread per its real URL everything is normal.


Did you read about this bug? It is not urgent for me, but if this Hack comes out from the betastate it should be fixed.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Did you read about this bug? It is not urgent for me, but if this Hack comes out from the betastate it should be fixed.

I tested rating a thread at http://de.castlecops.com/forum using this plugin (and modified to match a bit of http://googletap.com for foreign characters) with absolutely no issues. I can also merge threads with no issues either. I can't seem to replicate the bugs.

[vau7]

Rating at all is not a problem, just in a thread with a URL like this which has beeng generated in this case. I think there was an Problem because the user has used Quotes for the Title.

You can use the new URLs to move particular postings? I cant believe that.

[mfizzel]

Rating at all is not a problem, just in a thread with a URL like this which has beeng generated in this case. I think there was an Problem because the user has used Quotes for the Title.

You can use the new URLs to move particular postings? I cant believe that.

what do you mean you can't beleve that? Moving posts/threads works fine, what are you talking about?

[adventideas]

This plugin is working like a charm on our board, but the only problem i'm having with it is that it breaks up pages after 10 posts.

Anybody else experienced this or know how to fix it? I tried to double the post #s from inside the admin, to see if it would just even it out but no matter how many posts I set it to display before splitting the page, it keeps showing only 10 posts inside a thread and then splits the page.

Thanks everyone.

[ChrisSy]

This plugin is working like a charm on our board, but the only problem i'm having with it is that it breaks up pages after 10 posts.

Anybody else experienced this or know how to fix it? I tried to double the post #s from inside the admin, to see if it would just even it out but no matter how many posts I set it to display before splitting the page, it keeps showing only 10 posts inside a thread and then splits the page.

Thanks everyone.

I also noticed problems with the posting pages

[adventideas]

I also noticed problems with the posting pages

Glad i'm not the only one then :)

It's a very good plugin. Splitting the pages after 10 posts is the only problem i'm having with it.

[vau7]

what do you mean you can't beleve that? Moving posts/threads works fine, what are you talking about?


And it works if you put the rewritten URL in the field for the thread the Posting has to be merged?

[adventideas]

This plugin is working like a charm on our board, but the only problem i'm having with it is that it breaks up pages after 10 posts.

Anybody else experienced this or know how to fix it? I tried to double the post #s from inside the admin, to see if it would just even it out but no matter how many posts I set it to display before splitting the page, it keeps showing only 10 posts inside a thread and then splits the page.

Thanks everyone.

Bump for an answer :)

[Dean C]

The perpage setting is hardcoded in the .htaccess file. This cannot be avoided unfortunately due to the way vB outputs its pagenav URLs, so if you want to change it find where it says pp=10 in the .htaccess file and change the 10 to the value you want :)

[adventideas]

The perpage setting is hardcoded in the .htaccess file. This cannot be avoided unfortunately due to the way vB outputs its pagenav URLs, so if you want to change it find where it says pp=10 in the .htaccess file and change the 10 to the value you want :)

Thank you :)

[kafi]

I'm not going to set it up to allow foreign characters yet until I see documentation on how foreign characters are allowed in URLs.

But I do not think that url needs foreign chracters. At least in my language we have same letters as english, but we use additional punctuation marks to differ some letters from each other (latin2),

than I only need to translate for url rewrite this letters into normal letter without punctuation symbol. For example ?=a ?=i ?=e

pls .-)

[Dean C]

But I do not think that url needs foreign chracters. At least in my language we have same letters as english, but we use additional punctuation marks to differ some letters from each other (latin2),

than I only need to translate for url rewrite this letters into normal letter without punctuation symbol. For example ?=a ?=i ?=e

pls .-)

Well that is something different :) But what use is it having an english character set in your URLs when your site is foreign? Your search engine users will be searching in google, yahoo or msn etc using foreign characters and your URLs will not have these characters so the benefit is lost.

[adventideas]

Hey Dean C, is there a way to remove the hardcoded post # from the htaccess, or is that a must, in order to make this plugin work?

[mikehawk]

Is there anyway to make this work for individual threads?

[Dean C]

Hey Dean C, is there a way to remove the hardcoded post # from the htaccess, or is that a must, in order to make this plugin work?

The post# is not hardcoded anywhere

[Dean C]

Is there anyway to make this work for individual threads?

If you mean only specific threads, then not with this plugin.

[adventideas]

The post# is not hardcoded anywhere

Ah sorry, maybe I should have worded my post correctly.

What I was trying to say was this..

showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

Is there a way to remove pp=10 and still have the plugin work just as well or is that not possible?

[Dean C]

Ah sorry, maybe I should have worded my post correctly.

What I was trying to say was this..

showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

Is there a way to remove pp=10 and still have the plugin work just as well or is that not possible?

No, just change the value to the setting of your board.

[mikehawk]

If you mean only specific threads, then not with this plugin.

Thanks for the script, it works perfectly. I just think it work well if it were for specific threads because then search engines would spider them better right?

For my site, most threads are news articles which would make the proposed hack ideal.


Anyways thanks for the hack! :nervous:

[kafi]

Well that is something different :) But what use is it having an english character set in your URLs when your site is foreign? Your search engine users will be searching in google, yahoo or msn etc using foreign characters and your URLs will not have these characters so the benefit is lost.

Because also Google and other robots translate these letters and they equal them.

Also lot of people do not use punctuation symbols, they got used to write emails without punctuation, because it cause troubles for email clients to read them.

Then I suppose crawlers started to equal those letters, because sometime they are in use and sometime they don't.

Nobody use foreign characters in URLs anyway.

[Greivog]

Sorry, I cant find my thread on here, its got so busy :)

Is there a way to get this working on a win2003 server?

Thanks

Paul

[Dean C]

Thanks for the script, it works perfectly. I just think it work well if it were for specific threads because then search engines would spider them better right?

For my site, most threads are news articles which would make the proposed hack ideal.


Anyways thanks for the hack! :nervous:

Nope, you want all your content indexed! :D

[Dean C]

Sorry, I cant find my thread on here, its got so busy :)

Is there a way to get this working on a win2003 server?

Thanks

Paul

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mod_rewrite+IIS&btnG=Google+Search

No idea, good luck ;)

[D|ver]

Dean is it possible an integration for vba CMPS and vba Gallery ?

yeah a integration for at least the latest threads box in the cmps would be so great :)

[mfizzel]

yeah a integration for at least the latest threads box in the cmps would be so great :)

how many times does he have to state he isn't coding this for other hacks?

[kafi]

Because also Google and other robots translate these letters and they equal them.

Also lot of people do not use punctuation symbols, they got used to write emails without punctuation, because it cause troubles for email clients to read them.

Then I suppose crawlers started to equal those letters, because sometime they are in use and sometime they don't.

Nobody use foreign characters in URLs anyway.

Dean,

can you give some idea how to make this possible. Maybe some code for one letter and I will do (equal) on other letters myself .-)

[Dean C]

Dean,

can you give some idea how to make this possible. Maybe some code for one letter and I will do (equal) on other letters myself .-)

I'll consider looking into it.

[Moncal]

This has screwed up my forums so bad.

Although I guess it is really my fault because I should have backed up my database before I began.

[Dean C]

This has screwed up my forums so bad.

Although I guess it is really my fault because I should have backed up my database before I began.

This is impossible because it makes no changes to your database whatsoever.

[Lizard King]

Dean there is one issue i am consedering. There is no way for me to uninstall or deactivate this plugin since it is not visible in plugin manager etc... Is there a query which will uninstall it ?

[mfizzel]

Dean there is one issue i am consedering. There is no way for me to uninstall or deactivate this plugin since it is not visible in plugin manager etc... Is there a query which will uninstall it ?

Click Plugin-Manger and delete it - then remove the lines you added in your .htaccess file

*EDIT - I just reread your post, you stated it's not visible in your plugin-manager but it should be...just checked my admincp and it's there for me.

[kafi]

This is not to push preasure on you....

but your support rock! I see you very active here. You should develop this and be a good competitor to VbSEO .-)


I'll consider looking into it.

[mfizzel]

DC, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.

I asked T2DMan if he was ever going to make his google sitemap mod compatible with your rewrite hack, basically he says it's more damaging to have this installed than to not have it.

His words exactly :

Meantime, I dont want to add any credibility to a rewrite script that I consider is so half done that its worthless, and in fact damaging.


What are your thoughts on that? I certainly don't agree with him.

[tamarian]

basically he says it's more damaging to have this installed than to not have it.

It is damaging, but not to you, to a specific company who wants your money for an encoded script, with some serious privacy issues. :)

[Dean C]

DC, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.

I asked T2DMan if he was ever going to make his google sitemap mod compatible with your rewrite hack, basically he says it's more damaging to have this installed than to not have it.

His words exactly :




What are your thoughts on that? I certainly don't agree with him.

At the moment it's in beta, of course there are problems. But all these issues are fixed in the version I shall release soon :D

[Okie]

I have installing this hack today and i'm very happy with it ..

[Dean C]

It is damaging, but not to you, to a specific company who wants your money for an encoded script, with some serious privacy issues. :)

Last time I checked my scripts weren't encoded ;)

[Zhen-Xjell]

Last time I checked my scripts weren't encoded ;)

First, kudos to Dean C for working on this and enabling all those who wish to get away from an encoded schema (look at vbulletin... people will pay for commercial, but do you need to encode the product?).

Second, I've made my own modifications (as I said before) and I love it.

Thirdly, I have no issues with it. Browse around, check it out: http://de.castlecops.com/forum. Alls well in wonderland.

[Dean C]

First, kudos to Dean C for working on this and enabling all those who wish to get away from an encoded schema (look at vbulletin... people will pay for commercial, but do you need to encode the product?).

Second, I've made my own modifications (as I said before) and I love it.

Thirdly, I have no issues with it. Browse around, check it out: http://de.castlecops.com/forum. Alls well in wonderland.

Kudos to CastleCops ;) I refer all the people dumb enough to get spyware to you guys with a nice big HijackThis Log heh

[Zhen-Xjell]

Kudos to CastleCops ;) I refer all the people dumb enough to get spyware to you guys with a nice big HijackThis Log heh

:D There can never be enough kudos flying around. Again, you're a testament to open coding and enabling vbulletin to go SEO for so many (including us). As to the malware stuff, we just released this today, hope it helps: http://castlecops.com/a6341-Malware_Removal_and_Prevention_Procedure.html.

Keep up the good work Dean C. I love it!

[Dean C]

Kafi: Please could you navigate to my website and send me an email through my contact form using your email. I'll send you a reply with the latest version I'm working on, which should fix the foreign chars issue :)

[Zhen-Xjell]

Kafi: Please could you navigate to my website and send me an email through my contact form using your email. I'll send you a reply with the latest version I'm working on, which should fix the foreign chars issue :)

Speaking of which, did you want the hex?

[Dean C]

Speaking of which, did you want the hex?

Well I noticed on castlecops you still have the foreign chars in the actual URI's. My problem with that is that no-one showed me evidence that these chars are actually valid in a URI. I've changed a lot since then but I used this function to convert foreign chars to their english equivalent:


// function to replace foreign chars with their english equivalent
function remove_accents($text)
{
$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
foreach($trans as $literal =>$entity)
{
if(ord($literal) >= 192)
{
$replace[] = substr($entity, 1, 1);
$search[] = $literal;
}
}
return str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
}

[Zhen-Xjell]

Well I noticed on castlecops you still have the foreign chars in the actual URI's. My problem with that is that no-one showed me evidence that these chars are actually valid in a URI. I've changed a lot since then but I used this function to convert foreign chars to their english equivalent:


// function to replace foreign chars with their english equivalent
function remove_accents($text)
{
$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
foreach($trans as $literal =>$entity)
{
if(ord($literal) >= 192)
{
$replace[] = substr($entity, 1, 1);
$search[] = $literal;
}
}
return str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
}


You need to take a look at IRIs and the URI-> IRI mapping (international resource identifier).

[Dean C]

You need to take a look at IRIs and the URI-> IRI mapping (international resource identifier).

After a quick browse around google and reading up, it seems as it's a work-in-progress and not yet fully implemented/supported in the development world?

[openmind]

Great hack but I'm having a little trouble using it on Windows 2003 IIS6 and using the ISAP Rewrite dll (http://www.isapirewrite.com/)

Basicaly it does the same job as the Apache equivalent through a ini file in the web root.

This is my httpd.ini file:
[ISAPI_Rewrite]

RewriteRule /forums/archive/([^/.?]+\.html) /forums/archive/index.php\?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /forums/(^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html) /forums/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /forums/(^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html) /forums/showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

[I,L]
The archive works perfectly but I'm getting 404's when I try to activate your plug in. I "think" its got something to do with the rule as I have had to add /forums/ to the condition as my config file is in the web root...

Can you help at all?

[JTyson]

If you post the htacces file for this hack at the isapirewrite forums they should be able to help you convert it to there syntax.

* JTyson anxiously awaits an update on this hack :)

[Zhen-Xjell]

After a quick browse around google and reading up, it seems as it's a work-in-progress and not yet fully implemented/supported in the development world?

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

[openmind]

If you post the htacces file for this hack at the isapirewrite forums they should be able to help you convert it to there syntax.

* JTyson anxiously awaits an update on this hack :)

Sorted. The amended rules are below:
RewriteRule /forums/f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ /forums/forumdisplay.php\?f=$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /forums/t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ /forums/showthread.php\?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

[I,L]

Clicks install :D

Just realised that \ is not showing up in the code block above so for example /forums/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 should be /forums/forumdisplay.php\?f=$1

[TruthElixirX]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but I am having a problem choosing styles in IE.

Whenever I try to change the style while viewing the thread I get the same style because the static URLs don't allow &styleid=# on the end.

I am very glad you are updating this! Thanks very much.

[Dean C]

Great hack but I'm having a little trouble using it on Windows 2003 IIS6 and using the ISAP Rewrite dll (http://www.isapirewrite.com/)

Basicaly it does the same job as the Apache equivalent through a ini file in the web root.

This is my httpd.ini file:
[ISAPI_Rewrite]

RewriteRule /forums/archive/([^/.?]+\.html) /forums/archive/index.php\?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /forums/(^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html) /forums/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /forums/(^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html) /forums/showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

[I,L]
The archive works perfectly but I'm getting 404's when I try to activate your plug in. I "think" its got something to do with the rule as I have had to add /forums/ to the condition as my config file is in the web root...

Can you help at all?

I've never used an IIS module in my life, so I have no plans on supporting it. You're on your own I'm afraid :)

[Dean C]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but I am having a problem choosing styles in IE.

Whenever I try to change the style while viewing the thread I get the same style because the static URLs don't allow &styleid=# on the end.



I am very glad you are updating this! Thanks very much.

Yeah that's an unfortunate consequence I'm afraid :) Change it via your UserCP.

[jayhawk785]

Dean,

Does your latest version address URLs using "showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=2384" - or is that just not possible? I always use those to see new posts....

[Dean C]

Dean,

Does your latest version address URLs using "showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=2384" - or is that just not possible? I always use those to see new posts....

There is no issue here. That URL serves a function. It redirects to a page with an anchor on with the most recent post. There is no reason whatsoever to rewrite this URL.

[mcleodc]

posted in error sorry

[Zhen-Xjell]

There is no issue here. That URL serves a function. It redirects to a page with an anchor on with the most recent post. There is no reason whatsoever to rewrite this URL.

Those things are basically for aesthetics. It helps the user see the topic of the thread they are going to, especially if its offsite.

[Moncal]

This is impossible because it makes no changes to your database whatsoever.

I don't know how it happened, but it most certainly did.

When I tried to import the plugin I got a blank white page in admincp that told me that there was an error and that I was either using a vB 3.5.1 file (which I wasn't) or that I needed to upload tools.php and rebuild the cache. When I and everyone else got completely locked out of my forum (including admincp).

Floris came to the rescue and got it fixed today.

[harry1951]

*clicks install*

[glassy]

I was wondering if it is possible to make the urls of my threads / categories

www.url.com/t/32343.html and www.url.com/f/4.html

I have tried myself and got it all working except from when you click links (wherever there is /t/ or /f/) the link does the following www.url.com/f/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=4

Any help would be great otherwise sorry to bother you :p

[Dean C]

glassy - I've no plans to implement that URL structure. Sorry :)

[mikehawk]

attn: This is not compatible with the DC SEO vB database indexer for Yahoo and Google. :ermm:

[Dean C]

attn: This is not compatible with the DC SEO vB database indexer for Yahoo and Google. :ermm:

Sorry? I haven't wrote such a thing? :)

[mikehawk]

Sorry? I haven't wrote such a thing? :)

lol, well I guess that is why they do not work together. :nervous:

[Zhen-Xjell]

Example on foreign char returns:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Unterst%C3%BCtzung+f%C3%BCr+Ad-Aware&btnG=Google+Search

[Dontom]

Hello,
I intend to use this on a german forum - we use umlauts there (a,?,?,?) - will the code from here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=819625&postcount=348) replace them by their english equivalents? (ae, ue, oe, ss)

Thanks
Thomas

[Zhen-Xjell]

Hello,
I intend to use this on a german forum - we use umlauts there (a,?,?,?) - will the code from here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=819625&postcount=348) replace them by their english equivalents? (ae, ue, oe, ss)

Thanks
Thomas

Hi Dontom, I use Dean's code too, and the umlaut's are preserved:

http://de.castlecops.com/forum

[Dean C]

Hello,
I intend to use this on a german forum - we use umlauts there (a,?,?,?) - will the code from here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=819625&postcount=348) replace them by their english equivalents? (ae, ue, oe, ss)

Thanks
Thomas

The latest version replaces foreign characters with their english equivalent. But I have yet to decide whether to replace foreign chars or not yet :) Please bare in mind I have not yet released the latest version.

[Dontom]

Thank you both for your answer! I will wait then for the next version
Thomas

[descds]

OK i tried this but for some reason i couldn't get it to work.

I already have SEO friendly url's running in my subdreamer part of the site so i uploaded the plugin and put the copied

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

To my already established .htaccess file

Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

so i ended up with

Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

It was working in as much to say that the forum links changed to html links but clicking them resulted in a page not found.

So i thought maybe its the base url as my forums, like many, are in the /forum/ directory of the root.

So i removed that, still the same. So i changed too

RewriteBase /forum

Still the same

and tried

RewriteBase /forum/

Still the same. What did i do wrong ? :)

[Dean C]

It's not that simple descds. This rule redirects everything (which is a bad thing), but I won't get into a discussion on poor usage of mod_rewrite now:


RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php


This will send every single URL you type to index.php. Why it's doing that I have no idea. This should be a temporary fix for you though:


Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]


Give it a try anyway :)

[descds]

It's not that simple descds. This rule redirects everything (which is a bad thing), but I won't get into a discussion on poor usage of mod_rewrite now:


RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php


This will send every single URL you type to index.php. Why it's doing that I have no idea. This should be a temporary fix for you though:


Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]


Give it a try anyway :)


Thanks Dean but it didn't work :( My SEO friendly urls for subdreamer worked perfectly well but the forum ones results in a page not found on clicking ...

Any other ideas ?

[Dean C]

Do you have subdreamer and your forum in the same directory?

[ginger22]

Some questions about this hack:
1. Bug in thread, when it displayes pages, i.g. page2 have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/t109-p2-what-is-the-point-of-this-forum.html and page 3 of 3 have - http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/showthread.php?t=109&page=3&pp=10
why?
2. How about "Last post" in forum index? it have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=291, but i want to have hack this too.

P.S. Sorry for my English.

[descds]

Do you have subdreamer and your forum in the same directory?

No dean. Subdreamer is off the root and the forum is in forum/

[Dean C]

No dean. Subdreamer is off the root and the forum is in forum/

Then put just put the .htaccess file that is in the original zip in the forum directory ;)

[Dontom]

Dean, any idea when you might publish the latest version? I am still waiting due to the german umlauts...

thanks
Thomas

[descds]

Do you have subdreamer and your forum in the same directory?


Woohooo dean your the man. Works like a charm :)

Can i send this information to the subdreamer community ?

Also is there anyway i can make you a small donation ?

Thankyou once more ... This is as good as VB SEO and acheives all i wanted. And at least i can see what this is doing :)

Thanks once more.

**descds** clicks install ..

[Dean C]

Dean, any idea when you might publish the latest version? I am still waiting due to the german umlauts...

thanks
Thomas

No idea at the moment. I'm going to try and bundle the latest beta this weekend and send it to a few foreign boards for testing :)

[Dean C]

Woohooo dean your the man. Works like a charm :)

Can i send this information to the subdreamer community ?

Also is there anyway i can make you a small donation ?

Thankyou once more ... This is as good as VB SEO and acheives all i wanted. And at least i can see what this is doing :)

Thanks once more.

**descds** clicks install ..

You can send the information there way sure :) The rewriterule is terrible and the everything atom should only be used on very rare occasions. Also the rule should have a $ at the end but that's another issue for another day ;)

I would be most grateful for a donation. Just send me an email (www.deanclatworthy.com/contact/) via my website and I'll reply with my paypal details.

[Dean C]

Some questions about this hack:
1. Bug in thread, when it displayes pages, i.g. page2 have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/t109-p2-what-is-the-point-of-this-forum.html and page 3 of 3 have - http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/showthread.php?t=109&page=3&pp=10
why?
2. How about "Last post" in forum index? it have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=291, but i want to have hack this too.

P.S. Sorry for my English.

1) I'm not aware of any bugs with the paging system. If anyone could show me a live example I'll look into it.

2) Please read earlier in the thread for the reason why I am not going to rewrite the lastpost URL.

[descds]

You can send the information there way sure :) The rewriterule is terrible and the everything atom should only be used on very rare occasions. Also the rule should have a $ at the end but that's another issue for another day ;)

I would be most grateful for a donation. Just send me an email (www.deanclatworthy.com/contact/) via my website and I'll reply with my paypal details.

Thanks again dean. I know i have a bit of a cheek here and all but can you offer them any advice ?

I haven't spoken to them and only use their software so please don't see it as those asking. I'm just curious how it could be made better and would pass on the info ..

Also one minor cosmetic issue with the plugin

When you view who's online if a user is in a thread you get

Unknown Location
/forum/f18-movies-on-dvd.html

I'm certainly not going to loose any sleep over it though :) Maybe something to look at for the next release ..

[Dontom]

No idea at the moment. I'm going to try and bundle the latest beta this weekend and send it to a few foreign boards for testing :)
Can I send you an application for beta testing via your website? I runb two foreign forums, one of them a bigboard
Thomas

[Nutz]

Dean C any chance you can come on to the vB.org chat?

Thanks,
Mat

[Dean C]

Thanks again dean. I know i have a bit of a cheek here and all but can you offer them any advice ?

I haven't spoken to them and only use their software so please don't see it as those asking. I'm just curious how it could be made better and would pass on the info ..

Also one minor cosmetic issue with the plugin

When you view who's online if a user is in a thread you get

Unknown Location
/forum/f18-movies-on-dvd.html

I'm certainly not going to loose any sleep over it though :) Maybe something to look at for the next release ..

Sorry I don't have time to have a look into the software :) You'll have to take that up with them. As for the who's online issue, it's fixed in the next version.

[descds]

Sorry I don't have time to have a look into the software :) You'll have to take that up with them. As for the who's online issue, it's fixed in the next version.

understandable dean, but i had to ask :)

Thanks again for a great hack, its much appreciated ..

[Makaveli105]

not sure if this has been mentioned...

in Forum display, if you try to change the style using the dropdown at the bottom, it doesnt work, it just reloads the page.

im also having trouble with the whos online which is well known by now

Thanks Dean, Great hack!

[Lizard King]

There is a fix for whois online within the thread. I advise you to check and install that ;)

[Makaveli105]

oh, alright, ill check it out :), thanks, has anyone else had the changing styles problem?

[Dean C]

oh, alright, ill check it out :), thanks, has anyone else had the changing styles problem?

Yep and unfortunately it can't really be fixed.

Edit:

Hmm actually I have an idea :)

[Makaveli105]

:D good luck with it, if it can't be fixed it can't be fixed, still a great hack :)

[descds]

There is a fix for whois online within the thread. I advise you to check and install that ;)

thanks that did it :)

It doesnt re-write the urls to html in who's online though and has the older php relevance. I assume that was intentional ? How would that effect spiders ? if at all ..

Clicking the url to a thread a user is viewing sends them to the

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

instead of

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html

I personally think a rewrite of all urls would help avoid confusion here. Users are seeing two types of urls in different situations and i know it is only really cosmetic but it would make it look uniform.

So the last reply and who's online SEO friendly urls would just make it look and feel more intergrated ...

But either way its an outstanding hack and i'm happy to use it.

[Dean C]

thanks that did it :)

It doesnt re-write the urls to html in who's online though and has the older php relevance. I assume that was intentional ? How would that effect spiders ? if at all ..

Clicking the url to a thread a user is viewing sends them to the

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

instead of

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html

I personally think a rewrite of all urls would help avoid confusion here. Users are seeing two types of urls in different situations and i know it is only really cosmetic but it would make it look uniform.

So the last reply and who's online SEO friendly urls would just make it look and feel more intergrated ...

But either way its an outstanding hack and i'm happy to use it.

This is semi-fixed in the new version. I've just thought of a way I can rewrite the URLs. But at the moment all old URLs are 301-redirected to the new URLs, with no negative consequence.

[descds]

This is semi-fixed in the new version. I've just thought of a way I can rewrite the URLs. But at the moment all old URLs are 301-redirected to the new URLs, with no negative consequence.

if you mean that clicking

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

should redirect and show as

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-o...ing-future.html (http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html)

it doesnt :)

clicking http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 results in seeing http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 ...

Is that what its supposed to do or is something i have here wrong ?

[Dean C]

Yes that's what I meant, but read what I said again. It's fixed in the new version ;) Which I have yet to release!

[descds]

Yes that's what I meant, but read what I said again. It's fixed in the new version ;) Which I have yet to release!

no problems dean :)

Just wanted to clarify incase i had something wrong this end ..

Keep up the good work ..

[Zhen-Xjell]

kutgw Dean

[futuregizmo]

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

[futuregizmo]

another question, which sitemap generator hack can we use for this one? apparently the vbseo google/yahoo sitemap generator doesn't work for this and im wondering which one is compatible for this vb url rewrite hack?

[descds]

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

No i tried this and moving with the SEO url works fine. I moved a thread from one forum to another and back again without any complications ...

[Dean C]

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-online-dvd-rental-grows-ever-stronger-with-an-expanding-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-o...ing-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

Yes I'm aware of this.

another question, which sitemap generator hack can we use for this one? apparently the vbseo google/yahoo sitemap generator doesn't work for this and im wondering which one is compatible for this vb url rewrite hack?

I have no idea at all. As said earlier in the thread, on many occasions I do not plan to support any third-party addons, as I don't have the time :)

[futuregizmo]

thanks Dean for the reply on the sitemap generator, i'll just go find out which ones are compatible with your hack.

descds, im referring to moving posts from one thread to another, not moving threads from one forum to another. ;)

[descds]

thanks Dean for the reply on the sitemap generator, i'll just go find out which ones are compatible with your hack.

descds, im referring to moving posts from one thread to another, not moving threads from one forum to another. ;)

Apologies, misread that :)

[vau7]

But why do i get these permission - errors?
If i deactivate this plugins no mor 403 - Errors appear.
Its just in some Threads (perhaps beacause of Umlauts?).
In this Threads all Images (Buttons, ect...) wont be loaded and you cant answer or rate a Thread...

[jlaine]

1) I'm not aware of any bugs with the paging system. If anyone could show me a live example I'll look into it.

2) Please read earlier in the thread for the reason why I am not going to rewrite the lastpost URL.

I believe what he's saying (and I'm experiencing it also) - is that if you have a multiple page thread it doesn't seem to keep track of the proper amount of pages anymore.

IE: there is a thread with 63 replies on it on my forum right now - having 10 replies per page (if you are going by forum default) should net 7 pages - the forumdisplay only shows 5 total, and when you click on page 5 and load the thread the other 2 pages are visible then at the top of the thread.

I swear you discussed this earlier though - but I may have been reading something else.

Oddly enough though - my users are having no issues changing styles via the quick change box...

[Dean C]

Ah I see what you mean now jlaine - I'll have a think ;)

[Lizard King]

Dean is there a query to uninstall this hack ?
I asked this 3 times before. It is not showing in my product manager and i cannot uninstall it but i want to uninstall it.

[jlaine]

Dean is there a query to uninstall this hack ?
I asked this 3 times before. It is not showing in my product manager and i cannot uninstall it but i want to uninstall it.

He already responded, there is no query to uninstall, it's in the plugin manager... browse for it and uninstall then remove the .htaccess edits...

[Dean C]

Dean is there a query to uninstall this hack ?
I asked this 3 times before. It is not showing in my product manager and i cannot uninstall it but i want to uninstall it.

If it's not showing up in your plugin manager (which I have no idea why), then I can't offer you much more advice. I don't know the table structure of the plugin table offhand, but someone who does can offer you a query like:


SELECT pluginid FROM plugin WHERE name LIKE '%SEO%';


Which will give you the IDs of the plugins you want to delete. But the above query will not work as I don't know the fieldnames. If someone can provide that then I can offer assistance in removing it :)

[Brandon Sheley]

i've uninstalled this, it's been a month and no search engin I've found has my links as the thread-title-name.html :(
it's a great idea, but doesn't work, at least for me

[Bubble #5]

i've uninstalled this, it's been a month and no search engin
It can take up to two months before a site is updated, but suit yourself :rolleyes:

[JTyson]

i've uninstalled this, it's been a month and no search engin I've found has my links as the thread-title-name.html :(
it's a great idea, but doesn't work, at least for me

Im starting to see results after about a month, you have to remember that search engines dont update straight away, click the following link then replace with your domain to see

Clicky (http://www.google.com.au/search?q=inurl:www.fuo-motorsports.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&filter=0)

[JTyson]

PS alot of the listings in the link above are for this same URL format applied to the ecDownloads hack

[Bubble #5]

It's fixed in the new version ;) Which I have yet to release!
Hi Dean. Is there a guess-timate as to when that might be released? Just wondering...

[Zhen-Xjell]

@Dean C, I'm not sure I read this before in the thread. I just noticed now that when attempting to change a language inside a forum or thread the lang param is pushed to the end after the .html:

http://de.castlecops.com/forum/f3-hilfestellungfaq.html?langid=1

Therefore its not being parsed correctly by modrewrite.

This still a bug?

TIA

[Dean C]

It's the same with any additional get parameters applied to the URL. They cannot be parsed using mod_rewrite. I think I may have a way around this, but i'm a little overloaded with work right now, so won't do for a little while :)

[vau7]

But why do i get these permission - errors?
If i deactivate this plugins no mor 403 - Errors appear.
Its just in some Threads (perhaps beacause of Umlauts?).
In this Threads all Images (Buttons, ect...) wont be loaded and you cant answer or rate a Thread...


What about this? No Comment for this failure? My fault?

[Zhen-Xjell]

It's the same with any additional get parameters applied to the URL. They cannot be parsed using mod_rewrite. I think I may have a way around this, but i'm a little overloaded with work right now, so won't do for a little while :)

No worries mate, I'll fix it for CCde.

[FindYourHost]

I've searched this thread but couldn't see it, I've found a small bug.

If you have any forums acting as a link, any forums listed after the link are displayed as .php remove the link and all the others turn to .html.

Also, index.php doesn't act as index.html

[Dean C]

What about this? No Comment for this failure? My fault?

I've said this on several occasions, do not run this modification on a foreign board yet. I have no idea what the problem is offhand. I'm still working on adding a few features and bug fixes. Hopefully I'll find some time this weekend to send a few people the private beta.

[Dean C]

I've searched this thread but couldn't see it, I've found a small bug.

If you have any forums acting as a link, any forums listed after the link are displayed as .php remove the link and all the others turn to .html.

Also, index.php doesn't act as index.html

Yep this is fixed in the new version that will be out shortly :)

[vau7]

I've said this on several occasions, do not run this modification on a foreign board yet. I have no idea what the problem is offhand. I'm still working on adding a few features and bug fixes. Hopefully I'll find some time this weekend to send a few people the private beta.


Ahhrrm, you think its because of the umlauts. But there are now some titels having quote-signs ( " or ' ) and no umlauts in it, where the Problem is appearing.
Perhaps it'll help you to figure it out.

[Snake]

Can we have URLs like forumtitle.html instead of f1-forumtitle.html I wonder?

[Zhen-Xjell]

Can we have URLs like forumtitle.html instead of f1-forumtitle.html I wonder?

The number is used to get the correct forum. Otherwise, you'd have to search your forum names and find a precise match. Then pull the number and show it. If you have dupe forum names, you have a problem.

[Dean C]

Ok the latest version is ready. I would like 2 testers who run foreign boards, and two who run english boards. Your board should have over 10,000 posts. If you want to help me test this out, then please email me via my website here (http://www.deanclatworthy.com/contact/).

[TruthElixirX]

While I have no live board to test it on or a board with 10,000 posts I am very grateful for this soon to be release product. Thank you very much.

[vau7]

I've got nearly 9,000 but i wrote an email in good hope...

[Dean C]

I've got nearly 9,000 but i wrote an email in good hope...

Sent you a copy.

[Glovebox]

Sent you an email too, 31,000

Adam

[vau7]

Sent you a copy.


sent you an answer ;)

[Dean C]

Fix for anyone running the beta. Replace the DC SEO vBulletin URL Rewrite (WOL) plugin with this content:


if(eregi("^f|forum([0-9]+)-(.*).html$", $filename, $fmatch))
{
$filename = 'forumdisplay.php';
$values['forumid'] = $fmatch[1];
}

if(eregi("^t|thread([0-9]+)-(.*).html$", $filename, $tmatch))
{
$filename = 'showthread.php';
$values['threadid'] = $tmatch[1];
}

[croportal]

i want also to have member rewrite how can i do that

example now is like this http://www.croportal.net/forum/member.php?u=4817

and i want to have like this http://croportal.net/forum/member/michele

how can i do that.

i use this plugin also

[kafi]

I have replaced it. Do not know what it is supposed to fix but it is not fixing my problem:

1. rewritten forums are not showing up (requested url not found)
2. showthread.php is working as it was untouched...

[croportal]

I have replaced it. Do not know what it is supposed to fix but it is not fixing my problem:

1. rewritten forums are not showing up (requested url not found)
2. showthread.php is working as it was untouched...


you telling that to me, or???

[kafi]

you telling that to me, or???

No it is to post one earlier to your .-)

[vau7]

I've replaced it, too. But no change in the WOL

[Dean C]

I have replaced it. Do not know what it is supposed to fix but it is not fixing my problem:

1. rewritten forums are not showing up (requested url not found)
2. showthread.php is working as it was untouched...

As I said in my email, I think you have configured the .htaccess file incorrectly. Also you have not uploaded seourls.php. Please follow the instructions exactly as the readme.txt states.

[Dean C]

I've replaced it, too. But no change in the WOL

Can you make your WOL accessible by guests for 24-48hours for me.

[croportal]

DEAN C, can u help me please ist very important

and i have one question for you also.

on google i have notice that my forum is not listed, only forum but thread its not, what is the problem

see this http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=hr&c2coff=1&q=site%3Acroportal.net%2Fforum&btnG=Tra%C5%BEi&lr=

just forum like this http://www.croportal.net/forum/f72-download-zone-sport.html

and thread like this is not http://www.croportal.net/forum/t4976-fiorentina-milan.html

[Dean C]

croportal - your threads are on that page, and also on the other pages. The new format probably has not yet been indexed. It can take google up to 3-4months to reindex your content when URLs change.

[croportal]

croportal - your threads are on that page, and also on the other pages. The new format probably has not yet been indexed. It can take google up to 3-4months to reindex your content when URLs change.


okay, thank you very meach Dean

can u tell me what with the members????

[Dean C]

okay, thank you very meach Dean

can u tell me what with the members????

Yes, I have no intention of rewriting the URLs for user profiles.

[croportal]

okay can u tell me, if a use archive for vbulletin isn that a duplicate content

and how can i move .html in my urls i just want to have text without .html extensions

[vau7]

Can you make your WOL accessible by guests for 24-48hours for me.


send you an testaccount.

[Dean C]

okay can u tell me, if a use archive for vbulletin isn that a duplicate content

and how can i move .html in my urls i just want to have text without .html extensions

Sorry I don't have time to support tailoring this modification to individuals.

[croportal]

okay can u tell me just one question, can i or i cant use a archive for vbuletin because is it duplicate contenet than

[Zhen-Xjell]

okay can u tell me just one question, can i or i cant use a archive for vbuletin because is it duplicate contenet than

Seems to me that is your choice croportal. :)

[croportal]

Seems to me that is your choice croportal. :)


hm...i dont know...some people here bether understand that than me.

i dont know is it that god or????

[Zhen-Xjell]

hm...i dont know...some people here bether understand that than me.

i dont know is it that god or????

That's for you to decide croportal. Such are the things in running a website.

[kafi]

okay can u tell me just one question, can i or i cant use a archive for vbuletin because is it duplicate contenet than

Ok Dean you right,

I have missed /forum in .htaccess file, but that is only one I missed from your instructions.

It is too late and I see "forum" everywhere :-)

I am still getting error:
The requested URL /home/www/blabla.com/www/forumdisplay.php was not found on this server.

I have seourl.php on right place (forum root) also forumdisplay.php. Isnt there a problem with missing number of forum after forumdisplay.php? Reguralery it would show forumdisplay?id=xx

[Dean C]

Ok Dean you right,

I have missed /forum in .htaccess file, but that is only one I missed from your instructions.

It is too late and I see "forum" everywhere :-)

I am still getting error:
The requested URL /home/www/blabla.com/www/forumdisplay.php was not found on this server.

I have seourl.php on right place (forum root) also forumdisplay.php. Isnt there a problem with missing number of forum after forumdisplay.php? Reguralery it would show forumdisplay?id=xx

I can't do anything unless your site is online and the plugins are active. If you don't want to run this on a live site then say, and i'll exclude you from the private beta. But I need this online for the weekend so I can run tests.

[Moncal]

After upgrading to vB 3.5.1 this mod works great. Thanks a lot.

*Moncal clicks install*

[kafi]

I can't do anything unless your site is online and the plugins are active. If you don't want to run this on a live site then say, and i'll exclude you from the private beta. But I need this online for the weekend so I can run tests.

Dean, ok it is live now!
I just wanted to be sure that there is not my mistake involved in install .-)

I also want to make sure about "root directory":
- after my ftp connection i will get to the directory with folder "www". Index page and all script has to be put in this folder ... for exemple: www/index.html is for hompage of my domain. Relative url is /home/www/mysite.com/www/.

As I understand your instructions you are saying 3/ Upload the .htaccess file to your forums root directory.
than I have put .htaccess to "www/" which I supposed to have as "forum root"

Just in case I have copied .htaccess also to my ftp root (but nothing has changed). If this harm, I will delete one of them, tell me which one .-)

[kafi]

Dean, ok it is live now!
I just wanted to be sure that there is not my mistake involved in install .-)

I also want to make sure about "root directory":
- after my ftp connection i will get to the directory with folder "www". Index page and all script has to be put in this folder ... for exemple: www/index.html is for hompage of my domain. Relative url is /home/www/mysite.com/www/.

As I understand your instructions you are saying
than I have put .htaccess to "www/" which I supposed to have as "forum root"

Just in case I have copied .htaccess also to my ftp root (but nothing has changed). If this harm, I will delete one of them, tell me which one .-)

If i go through quick links and try Today's post, i will get the list with threads.

Urls of threads are rewritten but not accessible also...

Urls of threads from forumhome are accessible but not rewritten...

Please help, because 80% of my forum is not accessible.

[kafi]

If i go through quick links and try Today's post, i will get the list with threads.

Urls of threads are rewritten but not accessible also...

Urls of threads from forumhome are accessible but not rewritten...

Please help, because 80% of my forum is not accessible.

are we testing this or not????

[Snake]

The number is used to get the correct forum. Otherwise, you'd have to search your forum names and find a precise match. Then pull the number and show it. If you have dupe forum names, you have a problem.

Bah could you make this is a feature for the next version please, eh Dean?

[Dean C]

Bah could you make this is a feature for the next version please, eh Dean?

I have no plans to do it. Sorry.

[Dean C]

are we testing this or not????

Sorry, I've just driven home from uni. I sent you an email.

[Snake]

OK the hack is working fine for forum title's but not thread titles. Have a look here - www.metalgearforum.net.

Any idea?

[kafi]

OK the hack is working fine for forum title's but not thread titles. Have a look here - www.metalgearforum.net.

Any idea?

Thread are not rewritten here:

- from forumhome (but then if you follow certain number of page it is rewritten)
- from search result
- from my latests threads (but ok this is separate hack)

[SuperFly]

anyone know what to change so instead of
member.php?u=8
it would be like
member=SuperFly.html

Or something like it?

[Snake]

Bah I'm not really impressed about this hack so I have just uninstalled it. I'm going to save up money and purchase vBSEO soon.

[Dean C]

anyone know what to change so instead of
member.php?u=8
it would be like
member=SuperFly.html

Or something like it?

Sorry I have no plans to rewrite member profiles, as a) they are not enabled to spiders by default, and b) what value is it, to you, to show a users information to a search engine?

[Dean C]

Bah I'm not really impressed about this hack so I have just uninstalled it. I'm going to save up money and purchase vBSEO soon.

Good for you :) It's beta, if you don't want bugs, don't install a beta.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Hey dean, no worries, good product you got.

[Dean C]

Just need to find a reliable, cross-platform way of translating these accented characters now ;) It works for german, french by the looks of it. But not slovakian.

[Glovebox]

Sent you an email too, 31,000

Adam

Still heard nothing.

[Dean C]

Still heard nothing.

Whoops sorry, sending right now :)

[Glovebox]

Dean, didnt work at all im afraid, getting 500 server errors.

[Dean C]

Dean, didnt work at all im afraid, getting 500 server errors.

Email me the .htaccess file that you used :)

[Dean C]

Dean, didnt work at all im afraid, getting 500 server errors.

Ok I'm afraid I have to go home now. Here's a quickfix (assuming you are having the same problem as kafi). Open up the .htaccess file and find this line:

RewriteEngine On

Below it add:
RewriteBase /

[Glovebox]

Couldnt get it to work either, I've sent you the .htaccess I was using. gone back to using the release for now.

Adam

[Kusadasi-Guy]

Dean;
i have changed your plugin lil bit and i am using now.
the difference is showthread URLs, i dont like the idea of putting titles to URLs; instead, i am using it as /threadXYZ.html

in this upcoming new version, will you give us opportunity to set the urls?
(title.html or threadX.html)

[Dean C]

Dean;
i have changed your plugin lil bit and i am using now.
the difference is showthread URLs, i dont like the idea of putting titles to URLs; instead, i am using it as /threadXYZ.html

in this upcoming new version, will you give us opportunity to set the urls?
(title.html or threadX.html)

The whole idea is to get keyword relevance in your URLs. Having it appear just as a HTML file would have very little advantage to you. So to answer your question, no.

The only configurable option in the new version will be whether to use t1-title.html or thread1-title.html :)

[Dean C]

Couldnt get it to work either, I've sent you the .htaccess I was using. gone back to using the release for now.

Adam

I've had this problem with 3/4 of my testers now. I managed to fix it on one site but not the other two. I'll have to get stuck into the apache documentation as noticably you are using Apache1, and so is he :)

[croportal]

Dean C, why are new post in showthread and not in .html extensions

[vau7]

Something new, about the WOL?

[Dean C]

Something new, about the WOL?

I can't replicate it on localhost with the fixed code I gave you. Also please could you let me know if you're using Apache1 or 2 vau7 :)?

[vau7]

HeyDean,
i am using apache 2.0 Handler.

Ask if you need some more Infos.

[hex1848]

Has anyone had any problems with the rewrite not working towards the end of the page? Take a look at http://www.cigarsmokers.com. At the beginning of the third category (specifically the cigarsmokers.com cat) the rewrite just stops working.

The only thing I can think of is that the sub forum links right above the category are messing things up.

Aside from that, thanks for the great plug-in. I just upgraded to 3.5.1 from 3.0.7 and it sure beats the heck out of all the template modifications I was doing to accomplish basically the same thing.

[mili]

Does anyone have an issue with server load going sky high with this mod?

mili

[Brandon Sheley]

Im starting to see results after about a month, you have to remember that search engines dont update straight away, click the following link then replace with your domain to see

Clicky (http://www.google.com.au/search?q=inurl:www.fuo-motorsports.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&filter=0)

i may give it another shot then :squareeyed:
like i said, its a great idea. i do love the way it looks, but i get search bots on my site alot, and hadn't seen any results on google/yahoo/ or msn

[irishblacknight]

Thanks for the plugin - it's very tasty.

Two queries / issues:

1 - Shortcuts ie. creating a forum that links to a site. If I put one of those in the plugin stops working completely.

2 - Thread tools - One of our moderators is reporting issues with thread tools ie. for merging threads etc. Is there anyway around this?

[hex1848]

Thanks for the plugin - it's very tasty.

Two queries / issues:

1 - Shortcuts ie. creating a forum that links to a site. If I put one of those in the plugin stops working completely.

That's got to be the same issue I'm having. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?

[Dean C]

hex + irishblackknight - these two bugs are fixed in my latest version. I have a few people testing it for me.

[irishblacknight]

Dean C - the thread tools one as well? :)

[hex1848]

I would be more then happy to test it for you as well if you can send me a PM with a place to download it.

[Dean C]

Dean C - the thread tools one as well? :)

Yep.

[Sandibeck]

Just need to find a reliable, cross-platform way of translating these accented characters now It works for german

How do i rewrite a german board correctly ? And how do i rewrite the last posts on first page ? Thanks for help and sorry for my bad english

My board

www.notebookforum.at

[Dean C]

How do i rewrite a german board correctly ? And how do i rewrite the last posts on first page ? Thanks for help and sorry for my bad english

My board

www.notebookforum.at

If you wait for the next version it'll work correctly on german boards. Also as stated on several occasions in this thread already, I will not be rewriting the lastpost links on the first page. Search if you want the reason.

[bitblaster]

I have it installed... but I am having a problem... I think I have mod_rewrite enabled but it does not appear to be working properly.

Please PM me with info on setting it up if you can, server is running Fedora Core 4.

Thanks

[Dan]

What version of apache are you using bitblaster?

[Dean C]

There are no apache issues with this version dan. That was just with the beta we tried on your forums (which will be the next publically available version).

[Dan]

Well still it could be an apache specific problem Dean ;)

[COsborne]

I am running this plugin on my vb3.5.1 and users are driving me crazy with complaints that when they click last page it doesn't take them to the last page.

example:
http://www.theforumlounge.com/f14-shootin-the-breeze.html

DAK's Daily WTF pics
Trolling Pbase

Both of those do it. Any suggestions of what is wrong?

[Dean C]

What are you talking about. What is clicking last page?