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

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

Did you have a fix for that 'visitors who were here in the past 24 hours' plugin? There's still a problem with it (how it rewrites)....

I could but give me sometime. In the meantime, you could disable member rewriting as a "quick fix"

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by sickboy6ths

Im pretty happy witht he product, yummy yummy Really great job!

Just a question... .. I am running VBAdvanced and VBGallery... How can I rewrite URLS in those? It seems no urls are rewritten there

hehe vBadvanced has proven a tad bit more difficult that I thought. However, I will add funtionality, but in the meantime, you couild use the EXLCUDE script to stop vBA pages from being rewritten incorrectly.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jokerz

In showthreads area, my member has a problem created new thread and it is not showing, just "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator" after clicked thread. (1 problem since upgraded to 1.5.1)

Can you give me the thread link?

[masterross]

Originally Posted by Immortal

vBulletin Options -> vRewrite make sure it's selected to be on.

thanks
already found
but again HUGE loads !!! (((

i think this hack is not applicable to big forums (

BR,
Ross

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by masterross

thanks
already found
but again HUGE loads !!! (((

i think this hack is not applicable to big forums (

BR,
Ross

Firstly, from my experience, when you first initialize this script, there is an impact on the site whilst the old URL's are being rewritten to the new ones.

If your rewriting every single URL on your site (showpost, printthread, showthread, member.php, etc.), then there certainly will be a load increase.

Since bots don't have access to online.php on your site, there is no need to rewrite the URL's located there (add online.php to the exclude script).

If you want the load to minimal, you could disable some or all 301 redirects.

You shoudln't just enable a script and hope for the best. You must play around with the settings until you are sure you are happy.

I'll leave this post on one note -- i've verified all SQL queries ON A LARGE forum to make sure they are 100% optimized.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by masterross

thanks
already found
but again HUGE loads !!! (((

i think this hack is not applicable to big forums (

BR,
Ross

Whata re your loads currently? What are they after?

[masterross]

hi,

load average: 2.45, 1.92, 1.65

and with SEO load is over 40 !!!

[funinthesun]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

What version of MYSQL do you have?

I'm running on MySQL 3.2.3.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by funinthesun

I'm running on MySQL 3.2.3.

pls pm me

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by masterross

hi,

load average: 2.45, 1.92, 1.65

and with SEO load is over 40 !!!

Can you try do disable writing of everything except for showthread.php? In fact, disable 301 also.
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