[lierduh]

Originally Posted by gmarik

Does this works for:

2) vB3 beta 7 ?

With the Beta 7, I have dropped the whole idea. There is too much to modify. I have adopted the easy way out: Kill the seesion ID, and be done with it.

Without the session ID, Googles etc will index the forums. Find sessions.php under includes. Note the codes already include disabling session ID for Googles. What I have done is:

diff sessions.php~ sessions.php

PHP Code:

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< if ($nosessionhash == 1 OR preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
< { // if user is working through cookies, blank out the sessionhash
---
> //if ($nosessionhash == 1 OR preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
> //{ // if user is working through cookies, blank out the sessionhash
385c385
< }
---
> /*}
392c392
< 
---
> */ 


Basically I completely disabled the session ID. So the forums can be indexed by any search engine. So far no member has complained that cookies-on is the only way to use the board.

With forums used my rewriterules. It is essential to modify the rewriterules so that an old link to the f123.html etc still works, search engine will have your old URL for the forums and threads, you need to make sure they work. I have:

RewriteEngine on 

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&sort=lastpost&order=&pp=25&daysprune=1000 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&pp=$2&page=$3 [L]