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Originally Posted by eva2000

Anyone got this working with vB3 RC2 ?

I wasn't sure whether I was going to implement the hack on VB3 as I'm less convinced that Google requires it nowadays, and the pain involved (I was *very* thorough in my implementation) when I have to upgrade the forum was too much for me to face (especially when urgent bug fixes came along).

However, it's a very sound theory still and does neaten the whole URL thing.

And because it's you who ask so soon eva2000 I'll look at it when I do my upgrade to VB3.

How comprehensive do we want it?

Last time it was reasonably comprehensive... but do we want to extend it to ALL URL's? Save for the form post ones obviously... just the ones that guests can get to... such as Member Profiles and Calendar entries as well as the Home, Forum, Thread, Post and top level pages.

Maybe this time we can get it all into one nice big (enormous ) install file.

Anyhow... I'll look into it soon... I have to renew my vBulleting subscription first! tsk!

For reference to others... here were the last iteration of the rewrite rules I was using on my server:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /forum

  #
  # forumdisplay.php rewriting
  #
  # f2.html = forumid
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]
  #
  # f2--25--lastpost---2.html = forumid + daysprune + sortfield + sortorder + pagenumber
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)--([0-9]+)--([a-z]+)---([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&daysprune=$2&sortorder=&sortfield=$3&perpage=25&pagenumber=$4 [L]
  #
  # f2--25--lastpost--asc-2.html = forumid + daysprune + sortfield + sortorder + pagenumber
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)--([0-9]+)--([a-z]+)--([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&daysprune=$2&sortorder=$4&sortfield=$3&perpage=25&pagenumber=$5 [L]

  #
  # showthread.php rewriting
  #
  # t2.html = threadid
  #
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1 [L]
  #
  # t2-15-2 = threadid + perpage + pagenumber
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=$2&pagenumber=$3 [L]
  #
  # t2-15--friendster--2.html = threadid + perpage + highlight + pagenumber
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)--(.*)--([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=$2&highlight=$3&pagenumber=$4 [L]

  #
  # avatar.php rewriting
  #
  # av1-1053412959.gif = userid + dateline
RewriteRule ^av([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).gif$ avatar.php?userid=$1&dateline=$2 [L]

  #
  # attachment.php rewriting
  #
  # atp157156.gif = postid + extension
RewriteRule ^atp([0-9]+).([a-z]+)$ attachment.php?postid=$1 [L]
  # att157156.gif = attachmentid + extension
RewriteRule ^att([0-9]+).([a-z]+)$ attachment.php?attachmentid=$1 [L]

  #
  # Correcting the page navigation where it is used in other parts of the forum.
  #
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)-([0-9]+)\.html$
RewriteRule ^memberlist.php$ memberlist.php?%1&pagenumber=%2? [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)-([0-9]+)\.html$
RewriteRule ^search.php$ search.php?%1&pagenumber=%2? [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)-([0-9]+)\.html$
RewriteRule ^member.php$ member.php?%1&pagenumber=%2? [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)-([0-9]+)\.html$
RewriteRule ^member2.php$ member2.php?%1&pagenumber=%2? [L]

As you may notice, I did attachments and avatars too, to assist proxies (specifically old AOL ones using HTTP1.0) in caching them... which prevents at least some bandwidth loss and database hits.

I was putting the datestamp of the avatar in the avatar URL so that each upload of a custom avatar would result in a unique URL

Anyway... I'll look at the VB3 possibilities once I get my license and a copy of the code... which should be in a week or two

Cheers

David K