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

[morrow]

Do you think you will be adding the fix for the 'linear / hybrid' modes, etc...? Many of my users are using these and they don't work when the hack is enabled. I'd really love to use this hack and would also donate if it was working.

Very nice hack, but I think a few items were left out.

[Immortal]

He'll probably reply with an answer in the 'marrow

[pranism]

Another bug I have found , any user with a underscore in their name is not found with this.

[jdingman]

I'm also having issues now with users having a _ in their username. I wasn't having this problem before in 1.0.x, but now in 1.5 I am having this problem. I ran the htaccess generator too and it's still having the issue.

Edit: whoops, missed what pranism said and just read it. I'm having the same issue.

Edit2: I'm having some issues on my 'members' pages where the 'base' URL isn't showing up above the meta tags and the image paths aren't working or any of the links in the member profiles. Any idea how I would fix this? (it's an internal board for our business so I can't let you preview it (it's a 10.x.x.x address anyway)). thanks!!

[Gastongr]

Edit2: I'm having some issues on my 'members' pages where the 'base' URL isn't showing up above the meta tags and the image paths aren't working or any of the links in the member profiles. Any idea how I would fix this? (it's an internal board for our business so I can't let you preview it (it's a 10.x.x.x address anyway)). thanks!!

Just curious, what's the point of the SEO then?

[Gastongr]

Edit2: I'm having some issues on my 'members' pages where the 'base' URL isn't showing up above the meta tags and the image paths aren't working or any of the links in the member profiles. Any idea how I would fix this? (it's an internal board for our business so I can't let you preview it (it's a 10.x.x.x address anyway)). thanks!!

I think adding

<base href="http://www.yourforums.com/" />

before $headinclude in your MEMBERINFO template will fix that.

BTW, i also have the problem with the "_" in usernames, any fix to this?

[jdingman]

Originally Posted by Gastongr

Just curious, what's the point of the SEO then?

We have internal spiders on the network that need to pickup these pages and it's also for testing our application platforms. We still have a big need for SEO

Edit: That MEMBERINFO insert fixed it, thanks

Also, when will the sitemap generator for the vRewrite'n pages be available? I'm using an alternate one and the pages redirect fine, but it would be nice to be able to provide SES with regular filename paths. And what's the status about rewriting the RSS feeds?

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by jdingman

Also, when will the sitemap generator for the vRewrite'n pages be available?

Juan replied to myself a bit ago, he's discussing it with his team and hopefully he'll have an answer shortly

[COBRAws]

Hello, this is a great mod, but im here to repot some bug:

With the Post Thanks hack, you cant give thanks.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92410


Cya!!
ps. PM me your paypal

[GoTTi]

another problem found:

when viewing a users profile, and you click on the users latest thread posted, you get a cannot find thread error