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What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.
Requirements:
You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc
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It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread
It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread
It's fixed in the latest beta. I have a user who is kind enough to be testing it at the moment And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread
Woot, last thing I was waiting for was the forum clean urls working when you have subforums as links in the cell headers, super
But, wouldnt the lastpost be tagged as duplicate though? - there is the clean url pointing to the thread, and then the lastpost is still php?
I guess it's easy to get around, you can just do a conditional and check if the visitor is logged in, if they are then show the lastpost links, if not, don't show them. I allready do that with the print-thread link, I have seen google bot spider the print-thread links even with rel=nofollow on it, don't know if it indexes it, but you never know.
Subforums as links in the cell headers on forumhome still doesn't work.
After some messing around with different settings, as far as I can tell, as soon as you have a forum where you have it setup so the subforums shows as links in the tablecell below, AND you set the parent forum to 'act as forum=yes' then the rewrite will stop working from that point on.
This setup causes rewrite links to stop working:
Main forum (Act as forum=yes)
-- subforum1 subforum2 subforum 3
(Any forums below this point is also not rewritten no matter what settings)
If I have the same setup and set 'Main forum' in the example above to 'Act as forum=no' then everything works.
Hope this helps a little figuring out this bug.
EDIT: add to the above, if you have any subforum in the above setup where it is a link (Enter an url in 'Forum Link') then it also stops working.
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And no I won't rewrite lastpost URLs for reasons stated earlier in the thread 
