My problem exactly! And when I try to execute forum and topic as php's (ex. http://64.224.111.213/forums/archive/forum.php/15.html,) I get a CGI error:

"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"

I'm not well-enough versed to figure this out on my own. So - all help is welcome. Thanks!

ok my sub links arnt working it indexes the first page.. but then after that it comes up with 404 errors..

ive done the override acess thing in apache still aint working :(

http://www.lcdmod.com/forums/archive

Thanx
Crocket

Great to hear ;) Wait until when google updates at the end of the month, your forums will be swarming with users ;)

Sounds like you're running PHP in CGI mode?I don't think my hack will work in that conditions. I haven't tested it for that. Sorry.

Perhaps too much javascript or something. Google didnt spider vbulletin.com's archive either, been 2 months now. So that says something :/ *cough* vb3s new archive is useless. If you copied their code, then maybe that's the reason why google isn't spidering your site too

vb code is activated automatically in the archive. Everything works properly (colors, sizes, ect.).

Jborque posted a good fix for this. It has something to do with http.conf:

Ok, I figured it out.

The issue is that the directory has to have "AllowOverride" set for the archive directory. This needs to be done within the httpd.conf file.

Some people here are probably using virtual hosts and they tend to set up their servers so that users can override options in any directory. Apparently the default apache installation doesn't do this.

A couple of links I found helpful while researching this:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/stopping.html

This is a great hack!

Jim

Hope this helps you.
SkuZZy

google always goes to my forums, but it usualy goes to like the register page, and not my archive even though i have links to my archive on the main page :(

It WILL eventually. Google doesn't deep spider until certain parts of the month. Just wait. Google usually deep spiders 5 days after the dance and it started on the 1st. So that says it all ;)

Did it work? Google appears to be gearing up!