Sorry if this has already been suggested (I didn't see it), but if some people are still having troubles running the scripts (seeing the actual threads and forums besides the forum listings) then try adding this line to the top of you .htaccess file:

AcceptPathInfo On

Now the hack works for me, where previously it didn't.

/me finally clicks install after getting it working!

I installed it, when can I expect google to show pages? With vb3 own archive it wasn't working so great, but i see that other forum software makes html pages wich get listed mutch better...

Do I have to be patient?

Yes.

HMM .. i think that google will reindex the pages with the new adress, if you add the 301 (page moved) header. and then there will be indexed pages like this: index.php?a=$1$2$3 .. or not?

i fixed it in 2 steps. at first, rewrite the old archives to the new format:
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)?(-[0-9]+)? t-$1$2.html [R=301]

and then rewrite to the real index.php:
RewriteRule ^t-([0-9]+)?(-[0-9]+)? index.php?a=t-$1$2 [L]


with this google will change the URIs from /topic/12345-1.html to /t-12345-1.html
in its index.

i changed the rules 2 days ago and now i am waiting for the next freshbot ...

Uploaded a new version???????????

What do I do with this???? How do I update??

Also --how do I make the index show in the "whos online" properly?

you just have to upload the changed files to install the new version.

or if more work would be required i would have mentioned it within the post i made when i released the new version

how do I make the index show in the "whos online" properly?

Well, as it doesn't use the normal forum directory, i was actually too lazy to write that part right now ;)

Is Apache absolutely necessary to make this work ?

Something I just noticed.........

vba CMPS pages are not listed. Is there some way to intergrate those? I am making alot of custom content on CMPS pages......It would be nice to have them listed.........