Hello, has anyone else got problems with downloading the hack? My Gozilla only tries to download attachments.php which is 0kb :confused:

Probably a stupid question, but where do you find the httpd.conf file? It's not listed in my directory that I can find. Is this hack something that will work on a hosted server?

If you're on a shared server then just put the commands in a .htaccess file.

Where should the .htaccess file go? Forums directory?

Yes

Amazing Release. :eek:
Could pls. somebody post the endversion of it.

I've tryed a little bit arround, but is don't work for me.

Thank you in advance. :)

How does this hack handle private forums?

@RobAC:

The Spiders are not registered on your Forums, ans they don't have the necessary permissons. They can not spider inside your private Forums. They can only spider in your public forums.

PS. I'm still waiting for the final release of this hack.

I don't have a full understanding of how the overall permissions would work as it relates to search engine spiders etc.

I understand that the spiders are not "registered" on the forums, but if they "spider" the threads/forums, what is to prevent them from spidering the threads in a private forum?

RobAc: The spiders visits the pages just the way we do. If we click the link to the private forum, then we will be presented with a password verification form; we don`t know it so we leave. This is the same with robots/spiders, they leave when they can`t go any further.

Also if you've set "Hide Private Forums" they won't even get the forums permission page as they won't even be able to see the forum!

Think of a web crawler as a Guest visitor.

I have the following in my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?threadid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]

Kept getting 500 errors or 404 errors.

Are there any other commands which I need to include in the .htaccess?

Thanks

anyone got this hack working via .htaccess?

well thanks to auto, I got this working. Anyways I have my forums setup like www.mydomain.com/forums so the following is my .htaccess file

Thanks steven.

Your .htaccess works. No more 500 or 404 errors now. But I noticed that your thread url is in the format of

http://domain.com/forums/t100.html

My thread url is in the format of

http://domain.com/forums/t100/s.html

and it leads to a 404 page as i am using fastforward's hack instructions for step 2 and 3.

May i know what did you use to replace (step 2 & 3)

<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/s$session[sessionhash]">$forum[title]</a>

<a href="$bburl/t$thread[threadid]/s$session[sessionhash].html">$thread[title]</a>



Thanks a lot.
Byron

byron I PM'd you.

* Byron walking up to the podium. *

Firstly I would like to thank Fastforward for writing this and thanks to steven and auto for the .htaccess.

* Speech end. *


Feedback to those using the .htaccess method.

I have got it running by removing the "s$session[sessionhash]" part in step 2 & 3, using hard coded url for all instances of $bburl and using the the following in my .htaccess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/?$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=15&pagenumber=$ 2 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&daysprune=1000&sortord er=&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=40&pagenumber=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^[ft]([0-9]+)/s([^/]*)/(.+)$ /$3 [L]

Step 2 & 3

<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/">$forum[title]</a>

<a href="$bburl/t$thread[threadid].html">$thread[title]</a>

That's all.



Wait. That's not the end. Need to confirm.

To Fastforward and the rest : Did i miss out anything by using the above .htaccess and removing the "s$session[sessionhash]" in step 2 &3?


Thanks. Cheers to vB. :)
Byron

i dont get it

i downloaded the install txt

what the hell is httpd.conf ? :)

and I dont get any of the other instructions either

can someone make a dummys guide of it for me ??

thank you

I`ve implemented the hack temporarily through .htaccess , and it seems to works great. Especially seeing that PR* only drops one level from inedex to any thread. Currently it drops two from index to category, but this is unnecessary, and can be fixed by just deleting this slash:
<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]/">$forum[title]</a>
<a href="$bburl/f$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>

One thing I would really like to see implememnted into the hack, is the code for rewriting the path to the next pages of threads listed, like
"Pages (3): [ 1 2 3 > "
would get SE friendly. The current code is quite wast and it`s dynamic so I don`t know if it`s possible, is it?

Like
http://www.radiomute.com/forumdispla...5&pagenumber=2

could be transformed into http://www.radiomute.com/f261000252 ?

Then all threads would be crawled :D

*PR= Page Rank, used by google as the main meassure of page importance. The higher, the better!

I read the whole thread from the beginning and I'm confused now. I really want to install this hack, but everyone is saying something different. What is the easiest way to implement this hack? I can do it via httpd.conf. I'd really appreciate it if someone could post the final instructions.

Thanks

I've installed this, with Byrons mods and it worked fine for many browsers, except Netscape 4.7. It doesn't download the images and show image coding errors.

I've removed it until I can find a work around. Any ideas?

With auto's help, I got this installed and working on my board :)

My question is why doesn't it work if I use the sessionhash part of the url? If I strip that out, it works fine. With it, I get page not found.

(I am using .htaccess)

Amy

Has anybody goes who's online straightened out to recognize these urls?

Amy

not yet.. i just leave as is

rats. :D Looks like I have some work to do then huh?

Amy

Ok. This is HIGHLY experimental, but I think I have who's online fixed.

In online.php find:
add after:

Thus far, it's working on my board. But I promise nothing. :D

Amy

amykhar: I see that you`ve gotten the hack to work on threads that contain more pages. My additional pages in threads doesn`t respond to the hack.
The original code was:
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=15&pagenumber=$ 2 [L]

Could you please paste in the code you are using?

I got mine from Auto :)

Amy

Yay! It seems to have worked. Google just spent a very long time crawling my board. :)

I still haven't gotten myself back to Netscape compatiblity though. Did anyone find a way to do it without requiring all the templates to be edited?

Amy

my forum has 24,000 - 26,000 pages indexed by google :D

Does the first post of this hack work? Or do I need to read through all thep ages and install fixes ti run this on 2.2.1? Thanks

Eva, do you get complaints from Netscape users? I got a few from 3.x users so I removed the hack.

Might put it back again, and create a seperate template for Nutscape 3.x users, but if I can fix it, it would be much better.

I tried the one from this post, and it worked great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...131#post190131

Only problem is for Netscape 3.x users, ifor those who care about them :)

DAMMIT ALL TO HELL! Ventures online will be disabling mod rewrite on my server. Google FINALLY indexed me, and now the links aren't going to work.

They turned it off today for a while and killed my entire board.

Grrrrrrrr!

Amy

I really don't understand those instructions.. I need to make an .htsccess? Doesn't seem to difficult, and this would make my site very powerful compared to my competition so please help peoples I'm slow. :rolleyes: :D ;)

Amy,

Would you please share your changes? Your forum handles Nutscape 4.x a lot better than mine.

Is it a baseref tag or specific replacements.......

TIA

tamarian,
I have slowly been going into the templates and changing the urls from relative to absolute. However, I have barely gotten any done because of time constraints and a deep lack of motivation.

Now that it looks like Ventures Online is going to zap my mod_rewrite, I probably won't work on it anymore. :(

Amy

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Any Win2k/IIS version for this hack ? :)

Can't most spiders read the ? mark links now anyway?