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: