Also if you've set "Hide Private Forums" they won't even get the forums permission page as they won't even be able to see the forum!

Think of a web crawler as a Guest visitor.

I have the following in my .htaccess

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]

Kept getting 500 errors or 404 errors.

Are there any other commands which I need to include in the .htaccess?

Thanks

anyone got this hack working via .htaccess?

well thanks to auto, I got this working. Anyways I have my forums setup like www.mydomain.com/forums so the following is my .htaccess file

Thanks steven.

Your .htaccess works. No more 500 or 404 errors now. But I noticed that your thread url is in the format of

http://domain.com/forums/t100.html

My thread url is in the format of

http://domain.com/forums/t100/s.html

and it leads to a 404 page as i am using fastforward's hack instructions for step 2 and 3.

May i know what did you use to replace (step 2 & 3)

<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/s$session[sessionhash]">$forum[title]</a>

<a href="$bburl/t$thread[threadid]/s$session[sessionhash].html">$thread[title]</a>



Thanks a lot.
Byron

byron I PM'd you.

* Byron walking up to the podium. *

Firstly I would like to thank Fastforward for writing this and thanks to steven and auto for the .htaccess.

* Speech end. *


Feedback to those using the .htaccess method.

I have got it running by removing the "s$session[sessionhash]" part in step 2 & 3, using hard coded url for all instances of $bburl and using the the following in my .htaccess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/?$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=15&pagenumber=$ 2 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&daysprune=1000&sortord er=&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=40&pagenumber=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^[ft]([0-9]+)/s([^/]*)/(.+)$ /$3 [L]

Step 2 & 3

<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/">$forum[title]</a>

<a href="$bburl/t$thread[threadid].html">$thread[title]</a>

That's all.



Wait. That's not the end. Need to confirm.

To Fastforward and the rest : Did i miss out anything by using the above .htaccess and removing the "s$session[sessionhash]" in step 2 &3?


Thanks. Cheers to vB. :)
Byron

i dont get it

i downloaded the install txt

what the hell is httpd.conf ? :)

and I dont get any of the other instructions either

can someone make a dummys guide of it for me ??

thank you

I`ve implemented the hack temporarily through .htaccess , and it seems to works great. Especially seeing that PR* only drops one level from inedex to any thread. Currently it drops two from index to category, but this is unnecessary, and can be fixed by just deleting this slash:
<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/">$forum[title]</a>
<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>

One thing I would really like to see implememnted into the hack, is the code for rewriting the path to the next pages of threads listed, like
"Pages (3): [ 1 2 3 > "
would get SE friendly. The current code is quite wast and it`s dynamic so I don`t know if it`s possible, is it?

Like
http://www.radiomute.com/forumdispla...5&pagenumber=2

could be transformed into http://www.radiomute.com/f261000252 ?

Then all threads would be crawled :D

*PR= Page Rank, used by google as the main meassure of page importance. The higher, the better!

I read the whole thread from the beginning and I'm confused now. I really want to install this hack, but everyone is saying something different. What is the easiest way to implement this hack? I can do it via httpd.conf. I'd really appreciate it if someone could post the final instructions.

Thanks