Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

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

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[vau7]

Something new, about the WOL?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by vau7

Something new, about the WOL?

I can't replicate it on localhost with the fixed code I gave you. Also please could you let me know if you're using Apache1 or 2 vau7 ?

[vau7]

HeyDean,
i am using apache 2.0 Handler.

Ask if you need some more Infos.

[hex1848]

Has anyone had any problems with the rewrite not working towards the end of the page? Take a look at http://www.cigarsmokers.com. At the beginning of the third category (specifically the cigarsmokers.com cat) the rewrite just stops working.

The only thing I can think of is that the sub forum links right above the category are messing things up.

Aside from that, thanks for the great plug-in. I just upgraded to 3.5.1 from 3.0.7 and it sure beats the heck out of all the template modifications I was doing to accomplish basically the same thing.

[mili]

Does anyone have an issue with server load going sky high with this mod?

mili

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by JTyson

Im starting to see results after about a month, you have to remember that search engines dont update straight away, click the following link then replace with your domain to see

Clicky

i may give it another shot then :squareeyed:
like i said, its a great idea. i do love the way it looks, but i get search bots on my site alot, and hadn't seen any results on google/yahoo/ or msn

[irishblacknight]

Thanks for the plugin - it's very tasty.

Two queries / issues:

1 - Shortcuts ie. creating a forum that links to a site. If I put one of those in the plugin stops working completely.

2 - Thread tools - One of our moderators is reporting issues with thread tools ie. for merging threads etc. Is there anyway around this?

[hex1848]

Originally Posted by irishblacknight

Thanks for the plugin - it's very tasty.

Two queries / issues:

1 - Shortcuts ie. creating a forum that links to a site. If I put one of those in the plugin stops working completely.

That's got to be the same issue I'm having. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?

[Dean C]

hex + irishblackknight - these two bugs are fixed in my latest version. I have a few people testing it for me.

[irishblacknight]

Dean C - the thread tools one as well?