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

[grains]

how do we test to make sure that it's working?

[SimonVlc]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

This is fixed but now requires a htaccess entry to AVOID adding an additional query to the page...

Hi Bhuman,

what?s the modification needed?

Thanks!

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by grains

how do we test to make sure that it's working?

Hover over any forum link on home page, and make sure it ends in .html.

[tbaleno]

Note: If you run your vB on a directory from a subdomain or root ex: http:///www.yoursite.com/forum or http://subdomain.site.com/forum you will need to open up the .htacess file and change Rewrite Base / to Rewrite Base /yourdir

I can't find Rewrite Base / in my .htaccess file.

I believe this is nessasary to change since my forum is in a subdirectory. What am I missing? Where can I find Rewrite Base? Also, is the .htaccess susposed to be in the forum directory or the / directory?

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by tbaleno

I can't find Rewrite Base / in my .htaccess file.

I believe this is nessasary to change since my forum is in a subdirectory. What am I missing? Where can I find Rewrite Base? Also, is the .htaccess susposed to be in the forum directory or the / directory?

We removed it in 1.5 as it was not necessary. So don't worry about it

[tbaleno]

Okay.. how about this quesiton. Why does it give me a 404 when I enable it?

[yayvb]

I'm not getting a 404 or anything like that, but since I was previously having problems with danny's comment system not leaving comments with vrewrite installed, and also the latest x threads wasn't working.

I looked in the hacksNfixes.txt file but I don't quite understand. Is there or isn't there some sort of fix for the comment system? Do I have to manually do something? I see it says XML file, so is the change included in the new vrewrite .xml file? How about for the latest x threads, I see some steps to search for but I don't know where to be searching. I searched templates, I guess in some file. Thanks for any more info. I'll let you know if I find any more bugs, hopefully not. Eventually not!!

[jokerz]

1.5.1 - Bugs:

htaccess: RewriteRule ^search-(.*).html$ search.php?do=$1 [L]
The requested URL /search-getnew.html/ was not found on this server.
* How do I fix that?

http://www.xxxx.com/members-introduc...title-178.html#post1377 = is it normal to have #post0000? (it's vb default url)

Online.php: Unknown Location things you know, you haven't fix?

[dazh]

I have installed the new version but on some links its missing the url of the website and just putting the .html end

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by yayvb

I'm not getting a 404 or anything like that, but since I was previously having problems with danny's comment system not leaving comments with vrewrite installed, and also the latest x threads wasn't working.

I looked in the hacksNfixes.txt file but I don't quite understand. Is there or isn't there some sort of fix for the comment system? Do I have to manually do something? I see it says XML file, so is the change included in the new vrewrite .xml file? How about for the latest x threads, I see some steps to search for but I don't know where to be searching. I searched templates, I guess in some file. Thanks for any more info. I'll let you know if I find any more bugs, hopefully not. Eventually not!!

Didn't i already send you the XML file that fixes Danny comment system?!?!?!?