Any help on this?

Please add the option to disallow guest viewing for externalredirect.php

I'll see about the bug, sorry, been busy. But again, we can't guarantee it'll work with every other mod, we can do our best to try, but sometimes there are just conflicts.

Disallow guest viewing? The mod already includes an option to turn off redirects for logged in users. Are you saying you want it on for logged in users but NOT guests? Why? There would be absolutely no search engine benefit for doing that, so you might as well not use it at all.

The point is not to hide the external links, or to block them. Google's changes show that you only hurt yourself doing that.

The point is to bury them, and make sure they're outnumbered, so any loss of weight is minimal.

And that auto-redirect is an option you can leave on or off anyways.

If you mean settings in Admincp -> Help vBulletin Options -> Two-Step External Link Settings, then yes, I am sure.

And one more thing - this hack can not handle some URLs correctly (below is an example from forum based on phpBB3), after redirect appears page with error, becouse URL is cropped.

In post is:
http://www.website.com/forum/viewtop...t=500&start=50
...but this hack redirect page to this:
http://www.website.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3

When I make the first change (in /includes/class_bbcode.php), it takes my whole site down. I just get a white page.

Perhaps this conflicts with vbseo or another mod?

I want to use this just for external forum links, can I just skip the file edits and use it in the format like: example.com/forums/externalredirect.php?url=http://www.externalexample.com?

I tried it, did not work properly. When I would click a link it would say "Not allowed for phpredirect.php - 404 error" etc etc.

Did you check permissions?

what's the differ with Vbanonymizer ?

Hello evry one installed works great but want to know how we can redirect url automaticllay after some time because i saw on some forum they have this thing after showing warrning message link redirect after some seconds without clicking on Continue to http://www.********.ca
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WARNING: you are about to leave ***.com and proceed to an external address. This link was submitted by a user and we cannot guarantee the appropriateness of the content it contains.
Continue to http://www.********.ca

Search for "meta refresh" on google. It's a simple meta tag that will redirect after some seconds.

I have installed this addon, has run maybe 2 weeks, but now dont run this :(
i have vb 3.8.4 - i uninstall it but i observe this topic, when this realy run

sry i dint read all the reply's on this thread
but whats the difference to this mod vbAnonymizer ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=184267)

There is a setting in admin to put your own site (internal links) or any other site in a whitelist to not be redirected.

I believe their redirect doesn't have the intermediate bridge page which is absolutely crucial for link weight retention.

The redirect isn't what saves your weight, it is the intermediate page that sends most of it back through your site via your menu.

There is an admin setting to turn on meta refresh for the redirect page, which accomplishes this. You turn it on, and provide the delay in seconds you wish.

The mod not works on 3.8.5 :(

Me too :(

i tried but not work..
thank you bro.

If you we`re running 3.8.4 and upgraded to 3.8.5! Read the readme that is included lol.

Works fine :)

But with sub-domains its not working correctly, need to modify code!

does it work on vbulletin 4.0.x or 4.0.8 if not how can i make it work please

I don't know of anyone who has tried it on 4.0, I may try it soon.

Small xss issue fixed today, new code uploaded. If you want, all you need to fix the error is upload the new externalredirect.php

And what results? Does it work on 4.x?

This mod will not work on 4.x.

It also looks like it will kill VigLink or Skimlinks or similar services if any forums are using them. They depend on direct external links.

I ported this mode to vb4 (4.1.4).
Someday I will create a complete public package, I hope )))

P.S. Skimlinks may not work - I don't use it.
Remember that you can add some domains to white-list or create simple login in externalredirect.php to make necessary 302 redirect instead of showing second-step page..

I installed this on 3.8.4, I'm not sure if it is working or not. When I click an external link I get a white page for a moment and then it goes directly to the destination without giving the redirect message. I rebuilt the cache after the edits and installing.
in vboptions i selected yes for all the options.

Hi,

I installed this on 3.8.7. It is working fien with external links. I have added my domain in the whitelist. But still any internal links are been shown as nofollow. They are not redirected but they are nofollow.

What can be done? Please help.

Thanks.

Had to remove this because of spammer sites abusing it. They send requests to the externalredirect.php file with their own urls. Now I have a lot of unwanted traffic to my site. Many of the referrers claim to be Google bots. Just felt like posting this so others can be aware of it. Spammers take advantage of redirect scripts to boost their page rankings and to score free traffic to their sites.

Interesting. How did you discover this?

Had the same problem. I discovered it after a server change and reviewing the traffic log. MANY request went straight to the redirect file with different URLs.

I did put an htaccess rule in place to deny direct access to the file. However, for Google not getting massive 403 errors, I did put the file into robots.txt for denial too.

Still using the plugin with this configuration without any problems now.

Hello, it works fine for me except when external url contains windows-1251 characters it ends up to scrambled redirect. Any ideas?

What I think is that there needs to be a conversion function to UTF-8
for non-UTF-8 characters look like this:
%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82