Yes, the purpose is to populate the cache. I works fine for us. Any correct link that returns a 200 will cause vBGT to get populate the cache. We use wget, as described and it works great for you.

I am not following your problem.

If it is not working, you need to post examples from your input and output file, as requested. Otherwise, how would we know if your input file to wget is correct?

Here it is:

detest2.txt

wget -b -O /dev/null -i detest2.txt -o links.txt

links.txt
For some reason it seems to save to /dev/null right now - I am calling wget from "httpdocs" = forum root

just wget http://www.myforum.org/showthread.ph...=2&language=ja

gives:

Here is another example:

If I click a link I can see vbenterprisetranslator_cache_xyz table increases - when I run wget the table dosent increase. wget simply has no effect on the cache in my end.

If I want to manully empty the cache at some point. Then I can simply "empty cache" in phpmyadmin for the 3 vbenterprisetranslator_cache tables?

Thanks.

It works for us, not sure why it does not work for you.

Anyway, if you get it to work for you, please post back your working wget code. Thanks for posting.

Cheers.

I will, surely would be easier that way.

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Typo in language= vbseo sitemap mod:

should be &amp instead of ? like this:

Hey KrisP,

You can always test it by sending the output to a file (or the screen) versus sending the output to /dev/null.

Pulling with wget is not any different than pulling with a browsers, etc, as you know well, so you can check it easily by sending the output to a file or the screen.

Hey KrisP,

Try this and see if it works for you...

wget -b -i detest2.txt -o links.txt

or

wget -i detest2.txt -o links.txt

Hello Again KrisP,

I just tested it with

wget -b -O testfile.txt -i detest2.txt -o links.txt

and it works fine....

I could see the translations in the testfile.txt

All was OK.

Piping the output to /dev/null does not stop wget from pulling the file and vBGT from translating it....

Cheers.

Yes writing to a file then the cache get filled! Problem is that this takes 20 times longer than downloading with "Website downloader for windows".

Unfortunately I started a large file with wget - it could take days.

Do you know how I could terminate a running wget job?

EDIT: Seems kill "pid nr" did the job.

Sorry, but that is ridiculous.....

Obviously, if you don't know how to kill a running process on unix/linux you don't have enough experience to actually know what you are talking about regarding performance.

There is no reason that wget runs longer than something else (especially a windoze platform), unless you have a configuration problem or are running on different platforms , different networks, etc, etc.

You are posting misinformation base on your lack of knowledge and experience, obvious by asking how to kill a running process.

Hey champ

wget fetches one link at a time serially that takes 1-5 seconds to load each while "Website downloader for windows" is downloading 20 links parallel at a time.

First of all, if you want wget to download 20 links in parallel, you can simply run twenty instances. If you want wget to download 100 links in parallel, you can simply run 100 instances, etc.

Second, most people do not want to put the type of load you are talking about on a production server. For example, our forum gets more than 4,000,000 page views a month, so there is NO WAY we would run any process that spiders 20 links in parallel (we even regulate how GoogleBot spiders our site).

As I said earlier KrisP, you don't understand the details and implications of what you are talking about. You don't understand the basics of performance management, system management, and seem to be a "windows user fan" who just wants to make a statement about how great windows it versus a unix/linux command line tool. So be it, but you are simply spreading misinformation here.

Of course, GoogleBot uses a variety of wget for all their spidering, so I guess you will argue with Google as well ;) I promise you Google does not use a windows spidering tool, ROTFL.

If you want to run 1000 parallel instances of wget, do it. Anyone who understands basic command line scripting could write this script in less than 10 minutes.

Like I said earlier you have a (1) configuration problem and you also have a (2) lack experience and knowledge issue, obvious by your posts. That is no problem. We are all glad to help you, but do not post misinformation here (please!) about how to use wget and how great windows is over unix/linux command line knowledge and expertise.

Use SQL to empty cache tables.

This code is given by vbSEO staff, because sitemap generator is owned by vbSEO. I'm using links in SEO style, so cannot tell you about results for links in language param style produced by sitemap generator. Do you see wrong results in sitemap? If no then it is ok. If yes then made the change an check it - also let us know about your results. I will gladly correct this code for sitemap generator if there is any bug :)

how would i go about then making it a dropdown option?

Change templates:
vbenterprisetranslator_flag
vbenterprisetranslator_flags_begin
vbenterprisetranslator_flags_end

Begin and end opens and closes div, and flag is one link. So you can customize it as you wish.

EDIT: &

Yes, if this change is not made all links i sitemap will look like this, fx. :

http:/www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=205435?language=en

instead of

http:/www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=205435&language=en

BTW: There is also the posibillity to generate default sitemap and then search/replace:

Find: </loc>
Replace: &amp;language=fi</loc>

(except first link <loc>http://www.mysite.com/?language=sv</loc> that must be changed back to ?)

And save as xx.xml for each language to get an overview of indexing different languages.

(of course you have to do this manually every time you want sitemap updated - or you can just do it the first time and then change to big sitemap later)

Is it possible to keep UI untranslated?

This is a much better way to do this.

I have a script that copies the vbseo_sitemaps and generates sitemaps for about 15 languages, moves them to their own subdirectories (one for each language) and then pings google after each one is updated.

From experience, the size of your forum makes a big (very big) difference in how you approach indexing translations in Google.

If you have a large forum with hundreds of thousands of post, you will hurt your traffic if you translate all languages and create sitemaps for all languages, because Google will not index all, and you will then have lots of links from low traffic languages.

It is better, for large sites, to only index the top 10 languages and definitely do not make all the flags viable or you will have less traffic than targeting the major languages with high Internet usage.

I see your point. However from my perspective I am doing a little experiment of creating some language specific domains (uploading a copy of the forum to these) - only showing one language per language specific domain. That is why I need seperate sitemaps. Hopefully this strategy will give good indexing.

I use language= links and this robots.txt to make spiders only spider the specific language (if some of you see a flaw in the sitemap, I would of course be very interested to know :) )

Googlebot should adhere to above, I am a bit unsure if there is syntax in above that other spiders will not adhere to.

I dont use the folder structure ("seo links") because I couldnt find a way to use robots.txt to narrow down to one language only using that type of links.

Cheers and Good Luck.

We do not use ?hl= or ?language= etc parameters because this is not good for SEO, so I can't help you.

We rewrite our links for optimal SEO and include the language parameter in the link structure like as:

http://www.site.com/zh-CN/blahblahblah.php

etc.

I guess if it was possible to mod the mod so source language also was put in a folder www.mysite.com/sourcelanguage/.... it would be an easy task to narrow down to one language only.

We also use separate sitemaps.

However, as I said, for big forums, this is not good to have many languages. Google will not index all the links and too many links from little used languages hurts search engine referral traffic.

Best is to have deep indexing in the most popular languages with the biggest Internet populations (and per capita income) versus "every language under the sun"..... if you want optimal results.

I suspect your forum is quite small, so never mind.

For big forums, this is very, very important.

I agree if already using vbseo and having a folder structure it would be best to keep the folder structure and not introducing extra language= extensions otherwise you would "spoil" vbseo.

But if not using vbseo - links already have extensions like ?p=18947 so introducing one more extension &language=en probably wont make a big difference I imagine.

your talking spanish to me lol...i have no idea how to do this kind of thing :(

Use not translated area - see mod description

See vB manual for template changes + look for HTML form tags + little javascript for onchange event. Enjoy seeking for new knowledge! :D

Hi GoTTI,

Your vB.org title reads "Coder/Designer" ....NPL-er is simply talking about editing an HTML file.

As a Coder/Designer, I am sure you can edit an HTML file and create a drop down menu, etc.

Cheers!

When I add those lines to my htaccess:

My index is no longer the forum and appears by default vbulletin blog, I have to make my first page remain the forum and not the Blog? thanks:)

Hello NLP-er ,
It also in the Internet Explorer , and there are a bug in firefox when you choose a language and you move to other page the language will return to the default forum language , in Internet Explorer or Avant , the language keeps the same .
Thanks ,
Zi55

And do you have any issues with mod on actual configuration? Also - you can always just change 1st rule :) I do not advise to change your own forum structure. Mod is for forum nod the other way ;) So just look for solution which will allow you to use mod on forum as it is :)

Added in TODO list - thanks for note :):up: I will check it.

Thank you

Installed and work fine, but when i do search on google i got description translate problem

Thank you again

Please give me your forum link. Also - does on forum you see such mess? If not then everything is OK on your side. What you see in browser is seen by Google bot. If you see good content, then Google bot see good content.

Hi,

I see good content but if you check page Source you will see description problem ( the same google )


Thanks for reply

when i enable this mod i get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbet_getSupportedTranslations() in /home2/makingf1/public_html/ladiesletsride/forum/global.php(400) : eval()'d code on line 379

Ouch! Any ideas what happened to your meta data? Any theories?

Yes I see the issue. I will have to look at it closer. Please send me again detail about it but in PM. I will also need access to your AdminCP, and FTP (DB will be not needed, since I will just disable cache to make sure that I see actual results).

You did not uploaded files to FTP. Please follow installation instructions.

Hi all.

About news - I have corrected several little bugs in vBET2.x, but not ready to release yet.

Working hard on 3.0.0 and right now. I have already implementedfull support for user default language. It means that posts can be written in different languages, user just writes post and mod handle everything what needed to appropriately translate it even if it is not in forum default language. It already supports even AJAX quick edit.

Also RSS are translated.

And one fantastic news - vBET 3.0.0 working with vbSEO will have TRANSLATED URL's for threads!!! So if you have right now thread title in URL it will be translated :D

3.0.0 comes forward, but still lot to do. Translation of: PM, visitor messages, mails from administration... It is lot. In fact it is too much. I'm working full job on this mod right now. Also when it will be ready there will be lot of issues with possible configurations on users forums. Right now 2.x take me lot of time with people who cannot handle some thinks, or just with some bugs. In 3.0.0 there will be lot, lot, lot, lot more. I'm not able to test myself all possible issues with 3.0.0 In fact I think I will have to hire someone to help me with those issues. I will have to also set up separate open vB forum for with vbSEO - it means costs for 2 licenses, server, domain... Right now it becomes less fun and more like job. Job with expenses.

That's why I decided that 3.0.0 will be paid. I didn't decided yet how much. I know that licenses will be similar to existing products. It means lifetime license for usage, yearly license for update, and separate license for credit link removal. 2.x will stay free, will be still supported and bugs will be corrected as those appear :)

As I wrote 3.0.0 costs me right now. And I wouldn't be able, or it would be hard for me, or I wouldn't be interested to cover those costs and spend so much time (and I think that 80% is still to do) - I wouldn't be able to do this without all great guys/girls who donated me. No mater does somebody send few box or hundreds dollars (at some point it does matter ;)) - each one was a signal for me that I'm doing good think and going in good direction. That's why - anyone who donated me in this project till this moment, will get 1 free usage license and 1 free credit link removal license for 3.0.0 :)

imported_silkroad, Megatr0n, KrisP, nectons, CareyCrew, ghisirds, vitoreis, dai-kun, cyc (you donated twice and will get licenses twice :)), mosz, CThiessen, actolearn, jaconi, andie215, yahoooh, bollie, chick
You all will get free usage licenses for 3.0.0 as soon as it will be ready :) I just want to ask you about one think - please leave the credit link for 1 month. After this time I will give you free license for credit link removal :)

I will create open forum for vBET3.0.0 very quickly. I just have to buy licenses (already have domain), install everything, configure, prepare forum structure, maybe find out some logo and layout other than default :) If somebody wants to help me with that It would be great. If not - default vB logo and layout is also good at the begging ;)

As I wrote there is still lot of things to do in 3.0.0 but right now it is ready enough to show it to the world :) I will let you know when forum will be ready :)