vbSpiderFriend - Search Engine Friendliness

I am tired of my 200,000 posts not being listed in Google. I was inspired by phpbuilder.com this morning and I wrote:

vbSpiderFriend - the search engine indexer for all of your posts

Purpose: Allow search engine spiders to crawl a linked list of all of your posts.

Project Requirements:

-Friendly URLs (no query strings)
-Good dynamic meta tags
-Never have to touch the script again.. It is Y3K compliant, simply re-submit to the engines to update your listings

Install Requirements:

-vBulletin 1.x or 2.x
-about 10 minutes


1) Download the attached Zip.

2) Open class.mysql.php and put your database login info at the top.

3) Create a new directory called archive under your forum, like /forum/archive

4) Open the included .htaccess and change the Error 404 to your new archive path.

5) Open index.php and change the self-explanatory variables at the top of the file.

6) Upload all 3 files to your archive directory.

7) Submit /forum/archive/index.php to search engines and watch em crawl


DISCLAIMER: I don't use 2.x but I checked the schema and this should work fine.

NOTES: This uses ErrorDocument and query string parsing to get the variables needed. I do not have the time or energy to troubleshoot this if it does not work on your server. Sorry!

[Overgrow]

OK here is the important line on your error screen:

>>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

That means your .htaccess ErrorDocument is not setup correctly. Try different paths-- absolute not relative normally.

[cyrus]

hi overgrow

i went to my space and i cant seem to see a .htaccess file in it.
i tried uploading it again, but it doesnt seem to want to uplaoad into there.

any hints ?

[MrLister]

ok i set the 404 error to be at /archive/index.php and now instead of it saying 404 error not found it pretty much just reloads. any ideas?

[cyrus]

I am still having the same proble, and cannot see a way to resolve it yet.

the addy to it is this :-

http://66.78.8.167/~thehood/archive/index.php

I put this in my .htaccess file which I uploaded to the forum directory:-

ErrorDocument 404 /archive/index.php

I do not see what I am doing wrong

also, wat is the var $CONN = ""; in index.php ??

Can someone please help me !!!!!!!! ?

Thank you

[Streicher]

The Version Number in the ZIP-File is still 0.1a. I have compare the file with the previous downloaded version and find no fixes.

When i click on a forumlink with an ID <10 the page reloads only.

[Overgrow]

EVERYONE: Please download the newest version on page 1 and make sure it's titled "vbSpiderfriend_v1"... I had some trouble getting the latest version to upload, it seems to be there now. The top of the file will say v1.0b if you have the correct one.

Streicher: Please give a link to the archive-- no one else has said anything about a problem like this with forums < 10.

Cyrus/Lister: $CONN should be left blank.

/archive/index.php is not the full path to the file. It will be something like:

/~thehood/archive/index.php

or

/home/cyrus/archive/index.php

or

/home/wwwdocs/HTML/~cyrus/archive/index.php

etc, etc..

[cyrus]

hi

i did everything u said, even updated to the latest hack version

but it still refuses to work

my htaccess file has thsis in it now

/home/thehood/archive/index.php

which is the FULL path to it.

It doesnt work still 4 me.

it goes to some file like "2" in archive ... but theres nothing there, how is it supposed to open that ???

[Streicher]

@Overgrow:

here is the Link: http://www.studenten-city.de/forum/archiv/

If have updated to Version 1.

[cyrus]

hmm .....


I think this is related to my problem :-

This uses ErrorDocument and query string parsing to get the variables needed

if it is, can anyone help me with this plsssssssssss ?????????

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Cyrus
http://66.78.8.167/~thehood/archive/index.php

I put this in my .htaccess file which I uploaded to the forum directory:-

ErrorDocument 404 /archive/index.php

I do not see what I am doing wrong

You need it as
ErrorDocument 404 /~thehood/archive/index.php