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This is better then the Stock archive.

Here is an example:

VBW Stock Archive

VBW Archive Hack

Look at which one is cached deeper. The archive hack.

The archive hack is also easier to add things like google ads and banners to. See my other forum archive for an example. Lincoln vs Cadillac Archive

Quote:

Originally Posted by sportsoutlaw

Im a little confused. I want my forum as Search Engine friendly as possible, so I am considering installing this. However it seems that I have read on the Vb sites that the archive is already optimized in Vb3. I run 3.0.7, so is this hack still beneficial to me in regards to SEO?

The stock archive is good. But if you compare, the Easy Archive is a better performer SEO wise.

One of the big issues I see to discount the archive, either or any version, is duplicate content. Be creative find that way to make every page, yes every page, and they are dynamic, unique. ;)

Cheers.

Why am I unable to download any of these archivers now???

it was my winzip....taking care of now....

Help: Seems that I am to stupid to install well.

1. I run www.rickshawforum.com/forums
2. I created a directory for "Easy Archive" at
http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums/search

3. I changed in config.php
$archive_options['forumfile'] = 'forum.php';
$archive_options['topicfile'] = 'topic.php';

4. I changed also
// Forums URL - Directory your vbulletin forums are in (NO TRAILING SLASH!)
$archive_options['http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums'] = 'http://localhost/vb300';

// Archive URL - The location of these scripts (NO TRAILING SLASH!)
$archive_options['http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums/search'] = 'http://localhost/vb300/search';

Any idea why I get errors....? It seems that I have everything done well....I do not have any programers skills....

CHMOD 777.

Thanx for your Hilfe ;-)

Gerald

I installed Easy Archive

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trixi.com

4. I changed also
// Forums URL - Directory your vbulletin forums are in (NO TRAILING SLASH!)
$archive_options['http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums'] = 'http://localhost/vb300';

// Archive URL - The location of these scripts (NO TRAILING SLASH!)
$archive_options['http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums/search'] = 'http://localhost/vb300/search';

that's your mistake ;)

you should change it into:

PHP Code:


		
			
$archive_options['forumurl'] = 'http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums';

$archive_options['archiveurl'] = 'http://www.rickshawforum.com/forums/search';

Thank you for your help. It works now! :-)

Keep on your good work!
PS: Just an additional question: My background is grey. Where to change it to white?

See how it looks like Search
Saludos

Gerald
www.rickshawforum.com

you should be able to change the BG via the archive css file, i think it's the body setting, but i'm no css pro ;)

thanks for the hacks, mind to try this?
http://www.efz-tm.net/forums/thread39.html

I had been using easyarchive without any problem on my previous host
I moved my site to a vps yesterday
but got this error when click any links on index page of easyarchive

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@xxxxx.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.xxxxxx.com Port 80

mod_mime and mod_rewrite is installed on my vps.

what's wrong?

will this work for 3.0.7 ?

works just fine on 3.07

hey guys a bit of help here.
i did some modifications to the display of the archive .. and just when it was over i realized that i may have actually done all in vain cos this may stop search engine from spidering.
I have added just added some table borders..and rss global feeds with adsense

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/search/index.php

would it make any difference? or i have to go back to the old default presentation?

Well - It looks nice, and it is spiderable.

But - the point of this hack is to make it as easy as possible for google to spider, i.e. the path of least resistance. The extras you added wont stop it from being spidered, but might slow the spiders down just a little. I do some minor modifications myself, although you did more then I do. You can see mine here: vBulletin Webmaster

-

search engines get better every day, and are indexing much more, than they did last year.

so there shouldn't be a problem with your archive pages beeing indexed

right. Your is spiderable. but for this hack, the best method is KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)

Thats not to say yours wont work. The difference will probably be negligable.

k.. thanks.. i will probably keep this and see how it goes,

Btw any plans to integrate this to show in who's online. I tried to do some tinkering over there but didn't work. Right now i have just got it to show "viewing archives" when its on index page of archive. After that its "unknown location". If the actual thread title is tough, then any modification to just show "viewing archives" when user is anywhere on the archive page?(however deep)

nope, no plans to do so.

That's why it's called Easy Archive, i didn't want any modification in it which is not really needed ;)

very nice...thanks for the work!! **Installed**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenon

nope, no plans to do so.

That's why it's called Easy Archive, i didn't want any modification in it which is not really needed ;)

lol
never mind.. it was what you call a time pass modification anyway :D

btw i forgot to click install :squareeyed:

so /me click install

I installed the hack, renamed forum and topic with the .php extension, made change in config.php. The index displays fine, but the forum links return at 404 error.

From what I understand, the forum.php file does a conversion to html. I'm guessing there is a setting server side that needs to be enabled. What is it?

Server is IIS6+php4

DomesticMuscle.com EZArchive

Thanks

Has anyone gotten this to work with isapirewrite for IIS? I'm having difficulty with the rules.

ok finally got this integrated with who's online. So now you will see what people are browsing when they are in archive along with thread title. Earlier it was shown as unknown location.

Might i add beforehand that this may NOT be the most optimized way of coding it. I did it in as less time as possible and it was working in the time i checked it. Maybe you can see the code and suggest changes if any to optimize.

lets start:

First plz determine the folder where you put this archive. eg in my case it was search In your case the name may be different.

now in includes/functions_online
find

Code:

 case 'index':

                        $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['viewing_index'];

                        $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]\">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a>";

                        break;

replace that with

PHP Code:


		
			
 case 'index':

                        //start whos online mod by acers for easy archive

                        if(preg_match("/search/", $userinfo['location']))

                        {

                        $userinfo['action'] = 'In the Archives';

                        $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"search/index.php?$session[sessionurl]\">Viewing Archive Index</a>";

                        break;

                        }

                        //end whos online mod by acers for easy archive

                        $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['viewing_index'];

                        $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]\">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a>";

                        break;

replace search with whatever is your folder name.

in the same file find

PHP Code:


		
			
else

                        {

                                // We were unable to parse the location

                                $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['viewing_index'];

                                $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]\">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a>";

                        }

underneath that add
after replacing search with whatever folder name you have

PHP Code:


		
			
//start whos online mod by acers for easy archive

                        if (preg_match("/search\/forum\/(\d*)-\d*/", $userinfo['location'], $tester))

                        {

                                global $DB_site;

                                $titlefor = $DB_site->query("

                                SELECT forum.title as title

                                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum AS forum

                                WHERE forum.forumid = " . intval($tester[1]) . "

                                ");

                                $titleofforum = $DB_site->fetch_array($titlefor);

                                $fortitle = $titleofforum['title'];

                                $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing forums archive';

                                $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"search/forum/$tester[1]-1.html\">$fortitle</a>";



                        }

                        if (preg_match("/search\/topic\/(\d*)-\d*/", $userinfo['location'], $tester1))

                        {



                                global $DB_site;

                                $titlethrd = $DB_site->query("

                                SELECT thread.title as title

                                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread

                                WHERE thread.threadid = " . intval($tester1[1]) . "

                                ");

                                $titleofthread = $DB_site->fetch_array($titlethrd);

                                $thrdtitle = $titleofthread['title'];

                                $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing topic in archive';

                                $userinfo['where'] = "<a href=\"search/topic/$tester1[1]-1.html\"\">$thrdtitle</a>";



                        }

                        //end who's online mod by acers for easy archive

that should do it. Anyway i guess i am very new to modding so sorry beforehand if there are any errors here. :nervous: :nervous:

Quote:

Originally Posted by xenon

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all I ask

Is there are Branding Free option for this ?

I dont like to clutter my website with hundreds of different copyright notices and links that has nothing to do with the content of my site :squareeyed:

hmm, to remove the jelsoft copyright, you would have to have a branding free license of vbulletin.

to remove my copyright and links, there is no branding free option nope, but you can contact me per pm, maybe we can come together ;)

Hmm, wierd, some threads show up fine while others are just empty.

Here is a "working" thread...

http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/...ic/2620-1.html

And here is one that is empty, eventhough the original thread shows fine...

http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/...ic/1626-1.html

:disappointed:

I'm not getting any errors at all, it's just that some threads shows fine while others are empty :tired:

What could be wrong ?

Now i just had MSN bot visiting, it was looking at...

http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/...hp/t-1864.html

What wierd URL is that ?

My easy-archive is at "forums/history", it was looking in "forums/archive" which i dont link to anymore, but the link works but it shows the old default style archive ?

:confused:

bot must the old url still in its memory.
Anyway your new archive should soon be getting scanned. It takes some time.

yep, the old urls stay in memories some time

I see, but what about this ? with the empty threads ?

Quote:

:confused:

Do you plan to port this for 3.5?

hmm, that's very wierd.
never had any empty threads on all of my tests, and also there have been no reports like that before.....

@joey: i hope so.
unfortunatelly my time is limited, but if i find some, i will port it over :)

has anything changed as far as archives go in 3.5 to warrant a change?
I mean what will be that will require a porting over?

a lot of variable names and function names have changed.

it shouldn't be too hard to port it over, as said, just renaming a lot of things ^^

A port to 3.5.0. would be really really really really nice! After the upgrade it doesn't work anymore, just empty pages and it was such a great add-on :(

you shouldn't be upgrading to 3.5 live site now anyaway :D

but i am sure we will have this for 3.5. Its an awesome hack

hi all,

I am facing this errors can someone help me? thanks in advance!

Quote:

Warning: fetch_header(./http://www.mysite.com/forums/search/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /search/archive_functions.php on line 48

Warning: fetch_header(./http://www.mysite.com/forums/search/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /search/archive_functions.php on line 48

Warning: fetch_header(): Failed opening './http://www.mysite.com/forums/search/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /search/archive_functions.php on line 48

and there is no htaccess file in the download zipped.

Thanks in advance,
marc

maybe your download was corrupted.

all those files are included in the zip file

may be a dull question but how do i install the mime_mod thing? :(

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