Major Additions - TfSEO 2: the free vBulletin url rewrite

TfSEO 2.1

TfSEO is a powerful and free url rewrite for the vBulletin system: it rewrite forum, thread and post urls.
For me it's very hard to explain well all the feature of this plugin, soo the best way is test it.

How much does it weight on the server?

I have tested on my home server:

TfSEO enabled, heavy:

[root@hserver ~]# ab -n 100  http://hserver/tfseo_1/main-forum-f2/dsadas-t4
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking hserver (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname:        hserver
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /tfseo_1/main-forum-f2/dsadas-t4
Document Length:        33804 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   22.177687 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      3420400 bytes
HTML transferred:       3380400 bytes
Requests per second:    4.51 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       221.777 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       221.777 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          150.60 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:   220  221   0.7    221     223
Waiting:      209  210   0.8    210     213
Total:        220  221   0.7    221     223

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    221
  66%    221
  75%    222
  80%    222
  90%    222
  95%    222
  98%    223
  99%    223
 100%    223 (longest request)

TfSEO disabled, standart vburl:

[root@hserver ~]# ab -n 100  http://hserver/tfseo_1/showthread.php?p=4#post4
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking hserver (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname:        hserver
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /tfseo_1/showthread.php?p=4#post4
Document Length:        34010 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   21.870820 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      3441000 bytes
HTML transferred:       3401000 bytes
Requests per second:    4.57 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       218.708 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       218.708 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          153.63 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:   216  218   0.9    218     220
Waiting:      205  207   0.9    208     209
Total:        216  218   0.9    218     220
WARNING: The median and mean for the waiting time are not within a normal deviat                                                                                                 ion
        These results are probably not that reliable.

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    218
  66%    218
  75%    219
  80%    219
  90%    219
  95%    219
  98%    220
  99%    220
 100%    220 (longest request)

Like you can see product takes about +10ms per request.

Live Demos

1. Light
2. Medium
3. Heavy

AdminCP Demo:

For Support and question you can contact me at davide {at} techforum .it

This product will be updatefor long time, I welcome (and really do ask for) any feedback, suggestions, issues, etc...

If you install it, click install.

Note: vbulletin will have by default a rewrite system from version 4.0 (beta should coming next month, april). I relly suggest you to wait, and not use this product. If the vb's rewrite will be great, i will no more update this product.

[ambistia]

Originally Posted by paketeto

You must edit that strings in the forum manager of your admincp.

Where in the admincp? Inside Forums > Forum Manager this screenshot is ALL that shows up:



There is something which I can't seem to understand though, perhaps a setting hidden somewhere?

When I enable heavy, and choose to re-write the +forum, +thread, and +url from the admincp:
1) main forum looks like: mysite.com/forums/
2) each forum category looks like: mysite.com/forums/category-here/
3) however, each post looks (exactly) like: mysite.com/forums/edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f2/welcome-t1/

Where do you edit this 3rd URL? Why is it coming out like this? The pages load fine, but the URL on the threads themselves (3rd above) are very weird.

Ideally the thread URL would look just like "/forums/category/thread/" however I cannot find out how to do this. The category is perfect, it's just when you try to go to the actual thread inside the category that it goes berserk.


Jeff, could you please chime in with words of wisdom here?

[Sadikb]

Originally Posted by superjeff

Try edit plugin cutting the query in forumhome, that could be the problem.

Sorry bro, but didn't quite understand. I btw have TFSEO set to meduim and not heavy. So where do i edit the plugin for cutting the query in forumhome?

Thanks.

[superjeff]

Originally Posted by ambistia

Where in the admincp? Inside Forums > Forum Manager this screenshot is ALL that shows up:

The last one.

Originally Posted by Sadikb

Sorry bro, but didn't quite understand. I btw have TFSEO set to meduim and not heavy. So where do i edit the plugin for cutting the query in forumhome?

Thanks.

plugin and product => edit plugin => Generate thread url => cut

PHP Code:

//If lastpost isn't in the first page of the thread
$tfseo_tot_post = $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave(" 
SELECT thread.replycount 
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread 
WHERE threadid = '$lastpostinfo[lastthreadid]' 
"); 
$a = mysql_fetch_assoc($tfseo_tot_post); 
$a = implode($a); 
$a = $a / $vbulletin->options['maxposts']; 
$a = floor($a); 
$tfseo_total_page = $a + 1; 


[WEBDosser]

downloaded.. but not installed as it requires file edits and that is not supported by vb.com i will wait because i believe vb4 has some built in.

[samuelss]

I have downloaded and installed the 2.01 version and enabled "Medium" and am getting page cannot be displayed error. My .htaccess is as below

RewriteEngine on

#Add the following lines at the end of the file
RewriteRule paultest.gif images/smilies/cool.gif
RewriteRule ^(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)newpost(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$2&goto=newpost [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/post([0-9]+)(.*)$ showpost.php?p=$6 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4&page=$7 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2 [QSA,L]

Any idea?

Thanks.

[superjeff]

Originally Posted by WEBDosser

downloaded.. but not installed as it requires file edits and that is not supported by vb.com i will wait because i believe vb4 has some built in.

You right. I hope that the vb4 rewrite function will be good..

Originally Posted by samuelss

I have downloaded and installed the 2.01 version and enabled "Medium" and am getting page cannot be displayed error. My .htaccess is as below

RewriteEngine on

#Add the following lines at the end of the file
RewriteRule paultest.gif images/smilies/cool.gif
RewriteRule ^(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)newpost(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$2&goto=newpost [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/post([0-9]+)(.*)$ showpost.php?p=$6 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4&page=$7 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)f([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2 [QSA,L]


Any idea?

Thanks.

http://www.completefootballforum.com/f10
You use IIS, Internet Information Services (from microsoft) can this be the problem of the uncompatible htaccess?

[ambistia]

Hey Jeff, can you please read over my post (#961) again. It seems you may have missed what I was getting to.

The screenshot is all that shows up to me on the "admincp > forums > forum manager". I can edit that 1 single line and that does work for the forum catagory URLS (they work great). However the actual thread URLs are very long (ie: /forums/edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f2/welcome-t1/) so how can I edit this thread URL?

The first one (catagory URLs) is easy, it's right at the bottom of the admincp. Works perfect for catagory links and URLs by injecting the keywords. Ok. It's the thread URLs that seem to be impossible to edit. Can you help me understand what's going on here?

[danielebean]

Hi superjeff,
when do you think you can release the new version with the bug 'edit-this....' fixed?

P.S.: good plugin!

[ambistia]

I'm willing to pay/donate for proper support on this issue. Let me know, thanks!

[seefresh]

So I have this installed on 3.7.x and it works great except the htaccess file is causing some of my thumbnails not to show up in people's galleries. Any ideas on this?

Chris