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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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Yeah, i habe got ome or two Threads, where i always getting started at the second site.
I think the 'newestpost' should be rewritten too because it's still showing the php file for that. This plugin needs some updating to rewrite everything instead of just bits and pieces....
Also, is there anyway to rewrite it so when someone goes to showthread.php or whatever, that it redirects to the proper mod_Rewritten page? I don't want anyone being able to go to a regular thread, just the rewritten threads.
mod rewrite doesn't handle db lookups, so it would not know the name of the thread by the url itself.
something would have to be created in php itself. it would need to read the url and make a query if the pattern matched showthread.php.
I haven't read through this entire thread so I appologize if this has been mentioned, but I noticed that the 'whos online' area will not display correctly if a user is viewing a re-written thread.
It just shows 'viewing thread' without the link below it. You can tell they are viewing a re-written url by hovering over the question mark.
I have 20 replies before page splits, yet this hack forces my showthread to be 10, so it results in my forumdisplay to have the page numbers based on 20 replies and inside the thread there is 4 pages, when my thread should only be 2.
Ditto. This hack breaks any user's preference as to how many posts they want per page, and does all at 10 posts per page
If I install this mod but later decide to uninstall it, is there anyway to modify the htaccess so that any mod-rewritten pages indexed by google still find their way to the correct thread?
If I install this mod but later decide to uninstall it, is there anyway to modify the htaccess so that any mod-rewritten pages indexed by google still find their way to the correct thread?
Ditto. This hack breaks any user's preference as to how many posts they want per page, and does all at 10 posts per page
The latest version does no such thing, I use 40 posts per page based on my preferences - the most recent beta was/is available on the teckreviews site mentioned in earlier posts.
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