Easy Archive for vB 3
 

I've on my board the Easy Archive made by Skuzzy and Xenon, but it doesn't work with vB3.

I needed a year to have 20.000 pages cached on Google and now I don't want to loose them switching to the official Archive sistem of vB3.

umm theres an archive built into vB3,

google reindexes your site once a month, you would get all your links back eventually

it would be possible to use htacces to forward all those not working links into the new links.

but don't ask me how, i don't use htaccess very often :)

The VB3 archive only works if you have PHP compiled as a module. It would be nice to have such a hack for people not using Apache or those that use Apache as CGI.

your nto sposed to be using Apache as CGI anymore they have a new somthing or other for it for IIS which is very good so scott tells me.

It's an isapi module is runs much better than cgi on IIS.
The archive built in to vb doesn't work on IIS. This is a shame. There should be someway to make it work across all platforms.

I agree 100%!!! I wish someone would come up with something to make this work. IIS is definitely faster than Apache. There's a huge difference, I'm finding out. I just hope it's not going to be a major problem when I move my test board to my server.

apache is faster than iis

I'd also like to see an htaccess solution for tidying up the archive name. At least change

/forums/archive/index.php/....

to

/forums/archive/......

would surely make Google look at the pages more favourably.

It's a bit beyond me, but if I work it out I'll post it here! :D

I just did this - here is the .htaccess. It is a WIP. It WILL reforward "Skuzzy-style" links into your vb3 archive but it 404's when you hit the archive navigation directory tree links.

Maybe some of us can work on making a complete solution? I'd like to get this seamless.

Copy this into notepad, save as .htaccess and upload into your forums/archive directory: (I have no idea what I am doing, but I assume if you have >100,000 threads, you will have to add another [0-9]).


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*).* index.php/t-$1

I've knocked something together. Have a look at :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...791#post478791