Hello,

i have try to install this hack, but i get a 404 Message.

Can you help me, please? If i need vB Lite to use this Hack?

Here are the code in the .htaccess:

<files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

RedirectMatch 301 /archive$ http://www.the-web-matrix.de/archive/


My URL: www.the-web-matrix.de

I have find out the reason for my problem.

My Server haven't the core module (ForceType).
It is possible to use this hack without ForceTyp?

Hi, I had this hack installed about 15 days ago and I submitted to all the search engines aswell about 15 days ago. My archive still isnt showing up in the engines. Any idea whats wrong? How long should it take to show up? Here is a link to my archive. Tell me if its setup correctly. thanks http://www.superiormuscle.com/archive/

bump, any help guys?

As TECK explains, it can take months.

Uploading your archive URL to various sites is the first step. Then, you'll have to keep an eye out in the online users for the search engine spiders to hit your site. Even then, it can still take months before you are actaully published on their search engines. It really depends on the search engine, etc.

I submitted my site in early July, and it is not on any major search engines yet.

Bottom line is, we have to be patient for this to work. :)

Hope this info helps.

What was that fix again for the whois online locations saying 'unknown location' ?

ok thanks guys, i guess i will have to just wait. :( lol

eyh superiormuscle :)

Yeah, you have to wait, sorry :)

Not the fault of the hack, but the fault of google :)

Ok, i have rewirte the hack and it works great.

Thanks very much for this hack.

http://www.the-web-matrix.de/archive


Must i link to the archiv to be on the forum?

Help,
I tried another one of Tech's hacks (vbmicrostats) and things went wrong. I now get this error from the archive section when I try to go to a forum:
Parse error: parse error in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 944

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/sessions.php on line 205

I'm also getting this error on my Home Page
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/db_mysql.php:255) in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 1707

The forum still works but...

Can anyone please help with this?

Hello Teck.

I tried the hack here to remove the sessionhash from spiders but the hash still shows up, i tried no_sessionhash( 'mozilla' ); to test on IE, but sessions are still there... any ideas?

thanx.

nevermind, seems to be working now... weird.

Having problems with step 3 here...

STEP 3
Once you uploaded all files onto your server, you need to rename the following files:
- archive.txt to archive
- forumdisplay.txt to forumdisplay
- htaccess.txt to .htaccess
- showthread.txt to showthread

IMPORTANT
Do NOT rename the files locally then upload them! You must proceed with the files rename ONLY onto your server.

What do I rename those file extensions to? .php, .html, .htm or what? They have to have some sort of file extension and if I rename them to .php they will overwrite the existing vB ones. Also I can not name a file to .htaccess because it has to have some sort of a file extension as well. Can you help me with this step, Im a little confused.

Thanks
Chris

Chris just rename them to the file name....without any extension...

ie archive

Thanks for the help man, but when you try to rename htaccess to .htaccess it wont allow you to because of the period in front of it it thinks that you are trying to rename the file with a .htaccess extension and no file name so it wont allow you to have the . infront of it. Any solution to this?

you cant just rename the file to archive though otherwise when you go to www.yoursite.com/Forums/archive it wont bring up anything except for your archive file showing all the code and everything. I think I am very lost here. I have this whole thing figured out except for renaming these files. It you dont have any extension on the file it will be useless.

u may need to do it on the server if u access....or change your editor...so it allows u to save as .htaccess

I am also thinking that maybe I have apache set up wrong. I am really new to Apache but I understand as stated in the readme file for this archive that it says this...

The script uses Apache's ForceType directive. Most of Apache servers have it installed by default

I know I am using apache 1.3.28 and I am not sure if it has this installed by default? If anyone has any time could they explain to me what force type does? I couldnt find anything about it even on Apaches site.

Thanks
Chris

I am the server. I run my own server so I have access to it all right here. I am using Windows 2000 and I am running Apache 1.3.28 I have no idea why this is acting the way it is.

Ok nevermind I got the .htaccess to work with my FTP and it let me rename it to .htaccess Anyways check out my site now at www.vorspann.net/Forums/archive and take a look. It will simply show you the archive.php file in text. Does anyone know whats going on here. I think possibly I may have my Apache set up wrong. All my other pages work but this one doesnt and I am just guessing but when I look at the .htaccess file I notice that it redirects you when you go to the archive page by using the $archive variable. My guess would be it is not doing this becauser perhaps I have not set up Apache to read my .htaccess file in the directory it is in? Does that sound right to anyone? I am still not sure though because my Apache httpd.conf file says this...

AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by
# Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization
# information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment
# these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of
# .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above,
# be sure to make the corresponding changes here.
#
# Also, folks tend to use names such as .htpasswd for password
# files, so this will protect those as well.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

Just rename it "remotely" using an FTP client. Most FTP clients will let you right-click (or control-click on the Mac) to bring down an option for "rename".

You will NEED to have the period in front of the file name. This is crucial.

HA I got it! I had this line in Apache wrong...

# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride None

I had to change it to AllowOverride All. Is that safe to have it override all by the way? Now I just have to figure out where I change this...

Before you run the vbarchive.php script installer, you must make sure how the {imagesfolder} replacement variable is set.
If you have it set to the full URL, you will need to edit the script installer and replace any:
$bburl/{imagesfolder} with {imagesfolder}.

Does anyone know what all templats or folders that is in cause my main image is not showing up because of this

Anyone know how to make the ARchive visible to guests but the forum not open to guests?

Interestingly enough, during my upgrade to v2.3.2, I lost many of the templates; I had to re-install them manually, and everything worked again. *shrug* Not sure if anyone else had this problem.

Kaelon

Is explained in the readme file... simply run again the installer, no need to install them manually. The modified templates will not be overwritten, so you don't lose any mods.

Ya, it is.

I've had five sessions of spider visits today for a total of 92 spiders. This hack is the best.

Please help me guys...
I ?ve installed it, now i?t works but doesn?t realy works...

http://www.hardtalk.info/forum/archive/ This show all categorys from my forum, on the html site works fine, but if i click a link i become the error message:

No forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the

What?s wrong?

Why is it that I have this hack installed and the archive works great and all however it did not make my current posts and links in my forum to be search engine index-able. For example the links still look like this... http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showt...hp?threadid=16

Dont try clicking on that right now as my DNS server is down and I am in the process of fixing it.

Thanks
Chris

My online.php is still full of 20 unknown locations:

http://nexusportal.net/showthread/ne...r4_c21_f2.gif?

Teck, simple answer as to what is causing it woyuld be helpful. Do you advise rehacking somewhere or reinstalling templates? It makes no sense as to why it is happening. :(

I have no idea why the crawlers would go to your images, it's ilogic.

The same thing happened to me when I closed my board for a few hours :) ^^

/edit

nm I got it work :)

Okay, I'm going to rehack from scratch. Maybe I missed something somewhere. Strange as I've applied this hack 5-6 times....

Rehacked and nothing. :(

AltaVista's spider registers as going to archive, not many others though. I'm scared that my archive isn't getting spidered correctly....

Why is it that I have this hack installed and the archive works great and all however it did not make my current posts and links in my forum to be search engine index-able. For example the links still look like this... http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showt...hp?threadid=16

Thanks
Chris

Does the new search engine archive that is part of VB3 work as well as this hack? If not will this hack wirk with VB3?

I'm spidered up the ying-yang and I'm scared to death of upgrading to VB3 and losing all of my search engine positions.

You misunderstand what the hack does. And I don't see the archive:

http://www.vorspann.net/forum/archive/

One thinks you should reread the first post.

Well, my archive just gets worse and worse. Crawlers are now hitting pages as:

http://nexusportal.net/showthread/t-1189.html?

Complete with sessionhash. :(

You have the wrong link NexDog. My Forums are in a Forums folder not Forum, notice the S. Therefore the link is www.vorspann.net/Forums/archive/

Now what I am wondering is then why are the pages on this site all indexable and same with lots of other sites like www.evolutionm.net They all look like this...

http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthr...threadid=38799

Why aren't my sites pages like that?

Chris