Every Subforum in a New Folder

[gmarik]

Is there a possibility to make every subforum to be located in a subforum, like forum/12, forum/39 and so on? I've seen such a board once and wanted it for myself, no idea, how to do it... :chinese:

[Gary King]

Do you have a link to an example?

[gmarik]

It was a sci-fiction board I found via google. Lost the link. Every subforum has a folder with the same id.

[Gary King]

Why not just create categories for each forum? I'm not exactly sure on what you're looking for.

[DrkFusion]

Boards use mod_Rewrite or other methods of giving it an effect that the forums are located in individual categories, this is done to make it easier for search engines to crawl

[gmarik]

Keptic, and could you be so kind writing a mini hack?
No idea how mod_rewrite could be connected to vB...

[gmarik]

<a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910" target="_blank">http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910</a>

Maybe integrated even with this ...

[blackice912]

mod_rewrite is fancy and all yeah, but what about us who don't pay an uber $100+ for our site and access to httpd.conf ?

I doubt my host would like it if I said, "yeah, add this stuff to httpd.conf and then restart Apache please. ok good now change that and restart again."

[gmarik]

I know. But is there an other way?

[blackice912]

Actually I just figured out you don't need access to httpd.conf

I made a .htaccess file (put it in the base folder of my site) with this:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)fid/(.*)$ $1forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=$2

And it works.
Example: I go to http://www.mysite.net/fid/2 and it calls the forum up in that funky way.

On my site I had to change the style so that every folder path was a FULL url. After I did that, I added a <BASE HREF="http://www.mysite.net/forum/"> to make all links point to the real forum folder.

Needs work, but heck.