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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
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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I installed this one on my Testboard and had some problems. The [L] flag won't work for me. I used the [R] flag and also some combination of both. I all cases it worked, but I get the old URL style "forumdisplay.php?f=xxx" after useing the new link.
Is there something I'm missing? We are using Apache2. Our access logs shows me a 400 error when I use the [L] flag alone.
If you copy the original .htacess into your webspace, you can delete it, but you must not.
If you loaded it as a plugin, you have to delete it as a plugin
I installed this one on my Testboard and had some problems. The [L] flag won't work for me. I used the [R] flag and also some combination of both. I all cases it worked, but I get the old URL style "forumdisplay.php?f=xxx" after useing the new link.
Is there something I'm missing? We are using Apache2. Our access logs shows me a 400 error when I use the [L] flag alone.
Any idea?
Found it! My ************ confixx server software placed the rewrite rules in the virtualhost part, not in the directory. So putting it into the directory part worked.