vRewrite - SEOed URLs for vBulletin

About

vRewrite is an advance but simple system to rewrite vB's URLs. The rewrite system uses preg_match_all and str_replace to rewrite the URLs. It will rewrite any URLs that are dynamic ex: showthread.php?t= to /the-forum/title-of-the-forum-id.html. Why? SEs (Search Engines) rate results based on filename. Not only that, but most SEs give a "boost" to static URLs (what we do here) versus dynamic URLs. vRewrite accomplishes both of this, for all URLs that a search engine (or a guest) will see.

Installation

Please download vRewrite.zip and read install.html for more information on how to install it.

Requirements

vRewrite assumes that you are using Apache with the mod_rewrite module enabled, and running vBulletin 3.5.x. However, if you ask for support here on IIS' module or on vBulletin 3.0.x - I will be more then happy to assist you.

Contributions

I would like to thank Chroder and Cole for assisting me release vRewrite. I could not have released it if it wasn't for them.

I would like to thank the following people/boards for helping beta test vRewrite and making it a better product.

Gaming Ultimate, BP Gaming, NBS Designz Cyclez, Hosting-Talk and Forum University.

Copyright

I've spent many hours working and perfecting vRewrite. The only thing I ask you to do is if you use it, please keep the link back. If you wish to put it in your style instead, simply remove or comment out that line. However, if you use vRewrite you MUST link back. That is the only thing I ask.

Known Issues

There are no known issues with the latest release (1.0).

Support / Issues

If you have any problems or discover a bug please post here in this thread. I have also included my email in the install.html email for one-on-one support. The only thing I ask you is please do not post this email address publicly - it is my personal email.

Changelog

1.5 Release - vRewrite 1.5 has become stable, and all users under 1.5 RC3 and 1.0 need to upgrade. Support for 1.0 will no longer be offered, and you will be told simply to upgrade. Please continue to keep all bug and feature suggestions on the bug tracker at:

http://www.techhelpforum.com/vrewrite

1.1 Release - Several bug fixes, and a few new features. Details here.

03/26/06 - Updated the thread to reflect vRewrite 1.5 Beta links. vRewrite files has NOT changed.

03/11/06 - Updated the thread to take advantage of vB.org's new prefix feature. vRewrite itself has NOT changed.

1.0 Release (02/19/06) - I have released the much awaited 1.0. This is the first stable release of vRewrite. All users now should be safe installing vRewrite. For more information, and how to upgrade, please see here.

1.0 Preview (01/12/06) - I have released a preview version of 1.0. This is the final version before 1.0 is considered stable. I believe everything should work in this new preview, but one bug (see known issues). Please see here for more information and how to upgrade.

01/05/06 - Updated ZIP to include a fix for boards running a table prefix. You do not need to upgrade unless you previously had SQL errors. You can upgrade by importing the product and choose "Allow Overwrite".

Donations

Any donations are very much appreciated! I do this out of my free time and work many hours on it - all for free. Anything to help is always very welcomed

If you use vRewrite, please click Install. This helps you keep track of additional upgrades and shows to me that you care about vRewrite


You may not post vRewrite ZIP or any files contained in the ZIP on any website. You may not also post any support requests/give support on any website other then this one, without my permission. If you do so, you will get a DMCA for copyright infringement. I do not want this spread to pirated users. Please stop piracy and do not share the source outside of this thread and vB.org/com. Thanks.

Support will only be obtained at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=182

[yayvb]

Ok guys.. I lost the URL to report the bugs but it seems like everyone's just been putting them back in here anyway.

I installed this on one site that is live but not popular, and then on my live but popular site. I noticed a bug on each of them. Should be easy I think.

I think this one here was previously reported. If someone clicks on the quick link Today's Posts the skin is broken on both sites (www.420boards.com and www.youradultworld.com) and see a list of words on the top left of the screen, thus pushing the site down a few inches.

Bug #2 - I think also reported. It seems that not all of the links on the bottom of my site www.420boards.com for the latest X threads/members, etc. seem to work. Some work just fine and then other don't.

Some examples:
Good Urls:
http://www.420boards.com/marijuana-s...n-912-new.html
http://www.420boards.com/soil-mariju...2-821-new.html

Bad Urls:
http://www.420boards.com/t--911-new.html
http://www.420boards.com/t--910-new.html

I'm leaving this going for now on both sites although I expect to hear some people complaining, they'll just have to suffer. You guys have been real good at getting these problems fixed.

*EDIT* Oh and yeah before I'm asked, I did use the new .htaccess program so I don't think that's the cause for any of this.

[Immortal]

It's in the readme. From now on, all bugs will be ignored, or will be posting the URL to the bug tracking. There are many reasons to use the bug tracker rather then this thread.

http://www.techhelpforum.com/vrewrite

Make sure you search the tracker, and running the latest version (RC3) before you post any bugs.

[Darkwolf]

Immortal I have post the issue on that.

[Immortal]

Thanks

[Chadi]

This is my original htaccess file. What should I do with the content?

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
#The next line modified by DenyIP
order allow,deny
#The next line modified by DenyIP
#deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.domain.com
AuthUserFile /home/user/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/user/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 66.208.240.
deny from 213.185.106.206
deny from 213.122.222.
deny from 81.132.39.
deny from 81.86.140.
deny from 68.33.58.
deny from 81.86.140.213
deny from 81.129.
deny from 172.16.
deny from 86.132.174.
deny from 203.59.
deny from 83.70.178.
deny from 216.193.131.
deny from 216.193.131.102
deny from 65.65.222.
deny from 221.192.249.
deny from 66.14.198.
deny from 208.214.184.130
deny from 68.56.241.89
deny from 64.12.13.
deny from 206.172.212.



RedirectMatch permanent ^/private/$ http://www.domain.com/private/flashchat.php

[Immortal]

Just open up your old .htaccess, and then the new. Copy the content in the new, to the bottom of your old. If you get any 404's with the default settings, just post your full .htaccess here then.

[dizzy100]

Hi, did v3arcade ever get a full rewrite for this hack ? I know you did the main page and it worked perfectly, what about all the rest ? I saw fragments but in all honesty the thread is so big it started to get very confusing.

If anyone has fully SEO'd their v3arcade please let me know how you did it.

Great hack btw ...

[Immortal]

I would ask the person who was asking the help a bit ago if he can share all the changes he had etc.

[DementedMindz]

do a search in the thread for v3 arcade it will limit it down to i think 3 spots and there all the changes... i have fully rewritten alot of my site my arcade is fully done and im just finishing my gallery then im just about done... but search for v3 arcade and it will pull up all the changes...

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

do a search in the thread for v3 arcade it will limit it down to i think 3 spots and there all the changes... i have fully rewritten alot of my site my arcade is fully done and im just finishing my gallery then im just about done... but search for v3 arcade and it will pull up all the changes...

I did that and found fragments all over the place and got very confused in all honesty .

Would be good to release as an addon to this i think ...

I'll try again ..