Add your homepage = google will then spider all the links on your site it can spider.

yeah it does already block access to private forums, but not selectively... so if you want a private forum to be spidered, you're out of luck. For now I don't think it needs to be added (selectivity)... ;)

SkuZZy-

Would it be possible to exclude all private forums from displaying?

I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!!

Please release it ASAP!

Thank you!

Funny this was mentioned, because when looking into Filburts tutorial for creating friendly URL's, I also came across a thread by MarkB questioning how to stop webcrawlers from consuming so much bandwidth.

Take a look at the following thread for more solutions, in regard to also using robots.txt:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=44966

I installed Filburts hack as well today, and it was incredibly easy to set up compared to the troubles I had with Fastforwards hack. If anyone is interested in Filburts, here is the thread:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=56783

Yes, that is build in.

I don't understand why you want privat forums to be spidered, but not shown to users, bit confusing to me ;)

@Smoothie: The permissions are the same as you have in your normal board, so logged in as admin will show you all privat forums also in the archive...

I checked, and mod_rewrite is installed. How do I see if its enabled?

SkuZZy-

I tried your script, but I'm getting a no-permissions error.

What are you trying to do? You want your private forums to be spidered? Or you don't want them to be spidered? Private forums will show up, but when you click on them, access will be denied (unless you're logged into an account that has access to view them).