How does it handle the old UNfriendly URLs? Why they still work?

I am just concerned that they will show 404 error.

Thanks

Excuse me, but can you be more clear? Have you got a 404 error displaying forums/thread? If yes you must set-up the .htaccess file. Have you done it?

I do apologise if I had been unclear. I have yet to install, so this is more of pre-install question.

I would like to know what happens to the old links e.g. /showthread.php?t=962 after installing the add on. Will they still work? Coz I have a lot of old links pointing to many threads using the traditional showthread url.

Hope this is clearer:)

Ok. Now i have understood. All the link that pointed to the "old" urls, are redirect to the new one using a php-301-redirect.
You can see, to exemple im my forum:
http://www.techforum.it/showthread.php?t=858 is automatic redirect to
http://www.techforum.it/f47/tfseo-un...bulletin-t858/

Link to showthread etc will counted from google. Don't worry. You can find more about this here.

Can i have your site url so i can see if all work corectly?


Thanks

<font color="red">UPDATED</font>: Plugin now replace strange character in the url.

I installed today..it works fine..

http://tinyurl.com/2bssye

can I display forum name instead f11, f10 etc?

Thank you for install.
No. But if the plugin will be popular, i can think to introduce this option. PS: i preferr the "fxxx" option, the forum will have a good seo too, it will not load on the server and you can change without problem the name of the categories.

UPDATED: Fix two bugs (due to a failure to load a template, thread/forums with many page) and improved support for character replacer!

It'd be nice if instead of 404 error on bad thread URL it showed you the

"No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

page...

You can set it by .htaccess file. Add this line:

superjeff...

This is nice, however I can't get it to work properly. The links successfully are rewritten in vBulletin, however it is as if my .htaccess file is completely ignored. I have it placed in the forum directory. Do you have any suggestions? I keep getting "Page Not Found" errors when I try to browse to a rewritten URL.

Thanks

Your hosting allow .htaccess file? Some don't support it (but you shuld have a 500 server error). Have you try other ".htaccess files" in you site? I can't do nothing if it is your hosting..

Yeap, host supports .htaccess. I also contacted them in case there is something I might be forgetting to do. Just wanted to verify here as well if there is anything special I should do.

Thanks

No.. ther is nothig :(

Thanks for verifying, I will leave it up to them to figure out then :)

It also didn't work for me either

I placed it in my .htaccess in public_html

It rewrote the URLs, but I got 404 error when I went to them.

1: Is public_html the base url of your forum (where you have index.php)
2: Have you ever try to configure another .htaccess file (is this the only that don't work)?

Try to add this at the start of your .htaccess file:

Excellent modification but I have a few suggestions (don't know if they've been said already)...

- Forum title within the forum urls
- Url rewrite for member profiles

My members have noticed a bug. When they try to click the "last post" gif in threads which have multiple pages, it doesn't go to the last post on the last page.

I'm running v3.6.4

Also, the latest posts in cyb advanced forum stats are not rewritten.

Too many imperfections in this modification. *uninstalled*

<font color="red">UPDATED</font>: Fixed 3 bugs (view CHANGELOG)

The "last post" button seems to be ok now... but when you click the "last page" link on a long thread, it will not go to the LAST page.

I have fixed it with the last version, it was a little bug with the .htaccess file. Have you update it?
EDIT: navigating in your forum, i have find another bug: I will fix tomorrow :)

Oops, I updated everything EXCEPT the .htaccess.

Thanks! Will be waiting for that other fix.

Also, now when I click the "last post" button on a thread with only ONE page, I get a 404 error. Threads with multiple pages are fine.

I'm sorry but today i have to study a lot. I hope for tomorrow or this evening :)

Ok, I'll just disable the mod until then.

I use 3.6.8 w/ VBA.

With 301 Redirect
Do you want that TfSEO use a 301 with old urls? = YES I get the following error:

The page isn't redirecting properly

I will provide more info soon.

PS: It does work with this option off :)

Have you fill out the "Base URL of your site" admincp option?

<font color="red">UPDATED</font>: Fixed 2 bugs (view CHANGELOG)

Hi,

I have a problem
my forum is located in a folder inside the main for example http://www.domain.com/forum

how should I edit the .htaccess ?

I did the following but it does not work,

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/$ /forum/showthread.php?t=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)\/$ /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)\/([a-z]+)([0-9]+).html$ /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/([a-z]+)([0-9]+).html$ /forum/showthread.php?t=$3&page=$5 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/post([0-9]+).html$ /forum/showpost.php?p=$2&postcount=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/sendmessage.php?$ /forum/sendmessage.php [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)\/misc.php$ /forum/misc.php [QSA,L]


If anyone can throw a line on how to fix it, will be appreciated

Try to put the .htaccess file without your modification in the forum root. EX: yoursite.com/forum/.htaccess

Wow that was a quick reply,
well I tried that at first but it did not work :(

And have you ever try to configure an htaccess file? Does your server support it? Have you got Apache? It is very strange but you are not the firts one..

yep do you have MSN messenger or skype I can give you access, to check it out

nevermind I installed already the Vrewrite is works good on subdirectories.

And no problem on vrewite with htaccess? Stange..

How do I uninstall it (in case I want to)?
I just undo all changes and uninstall the product,and everything is back to 'normal'? :)

Yes, but remember to invert the link (with 301 redirect via htaccess)

Can't seem to fix the last post button?