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

[CrazyVLS]

I already installed this hack mod, bit it was not working and my website now is down. Please check it and help me fix this step by step !

http://www.angelsbabe.net/rewrite/

http://www.angelsbabe.net/rewrite/f-...movies-7.html/

Not Found
The requested URL /rewrite/f-western-movies-7.html/ was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.angelsbabe.net Port 80

with no mod vRewrite, it work perfect ! ---> http://www.angelsbabe.net/forum/

[Ntfu2]

make sure you upload the .htaccess inside your forums directory

[Immortal]

Ntfu2: Not sure, I'll let Bhuwan answer that

You know you could've warned me before I clicked that. Just read install.html thoroughly, and search the thread, and follow Ntfu's advice

[jdingman]

love this plugin, but I have a small problem. When I go into a forum with it, it breaks all the relative links I had for images and the member link doesn't work because it's relatively wrong. my forum is at forum.domain.com and I have the rewrite base a /

any ideas why this breaks it?

[forte]

You must have missed the step with the template edit. The headinclude template, if i am not mistaken.

[Cole2026]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

1) example on 302 (too lazy to google)
2) difference between 301 vs 302
3) why isnt what is iad duplicate
4) example of duplicate

thx for your help!( I am not a SEO expert )

There are virtually no differences between 301 and 302 except that 302 is temporary and 301 is perminant. 302 also has a keyword exploit problem, so 301 is the way to go.

[jdingman]

Originally Posted by forte

You must have missed the step with the template edit. The headinclude template, if i am not mistaken.

Yeah, I had, but I fixed that. I'm getting a really weird problem now.

On SOME of my posts, the first username link will look like this: http://forums.domain.com/u-jonathan-1.html63 instead of the regular u-username-###.html -- any ideas why this is happening? I'm having similar issues in the calendar.php with the wrong username being displayed and it's tagging on this extra ## after .html for some reason.

Additionally, the 'lastpost' isn't matching up correctly with the actual last post made. It's giving me a random post that was not the last post in the forum.

[forte]

It is fixed in 1.5 because i had the same problem before.

[jdingman]

is 1.5 stable enough to use?

[forte]

There are still some issues and wait for RC2, A LOT of issues has been resolved in it.