vB Easy Archive - Search Engine Spiderable Hack!

Ok, as a lot of users have installed my vB Easy Archive Hack i've decided to release a vB3.5 Version as well. Note that vB3.5 is currently in beta, and so is my hack as well!

As vB3 already comes with an build in Archive System, it's not that needed than it was in vb2, but for all of you, who have installed the vb2 version and don't want to loose their indexed Pages, this one is for you

I'm lazy and therefore will copy the Releasetext of vb2 by SkuZZy.

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_mime. If you don't have mod_mime, you will still be able to install this hack, just read the install.txt for help then.

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demo

To view a demo of this script, visit this site:
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 3.x
mod_mime installed (not absolutelly required, but recommended)
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - It is recommended to have mod_mime installed to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html
If you want to run vb Easy Archive without mod_mie, please look into the install.txt

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Forumlist yes, but threadlist no - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=91
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=153

Credits
SkuZZy aka Adam J. de Jaray, who gets my Special Thanks for his modifications, releasing and of course his Support to my Script's vb2 version. Note, he does not have anything to do with the vb3 version, but without him, there wouldn't have been the vb2 version and therefore i would never have released the one for vb3

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all I ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "install.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[Zia]

hmm going to impliment this one...

but same probs as locom

does it works with vb3.5.3 ?

[Zia]

finally there are lotts porbs here...when we can accpet an update of it fro vb3.5.3

[Lexserv]

Will this work with the latest version of vBulletin 3.5.x?

Xenon, can you confirm this? I really liked the old 3.x hack and it worked great.

Holler!

[SaN-DeeP]

is it possible to re-direct the thread listings on forum pages to original thread = showthread ?

thanks

[cd1986]

Originally Posted by Lexserv

Will this work with the latest version of vBulletin 3.5.x?

Yep, just download the files and make the following changes:

Invalid thread error:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=22

Private forums error:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=34

Bad URL Error:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=37

No content error:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=58

[julius]

How can I show a banner in easy archive after the first post in a thread page (topic)?

Like in showthread here?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123281

Thanks

[Prince]

Is it possible to get this to run on a different domain? (they are on the same server using the same sql server)

[letsjoy]

haha demo also not working

[jyajay]

This would be perfect if: You can grant access to all threads and forums only to google which are readable by every registered member and produce this output without images, smiles etc. Then if you follow the google link you will get redirected to a message that says something like "if you want to see this page please register", of course you could just use the normal vbulletin message. There are severeal reasons why this is helpful for some people. In my case it is mostly the fact that I want to get more active members at my board but still have the control over who reads the actual threads because it is a lot easier to just leech the threads than create one by yourself.

For phpBB I had a sitemap hack that produced just a complete list of all threads that are at the forum with the names of the threads and links included, no matter if guests could read them - that is a good alternative for me also but maybe not achievable with this hack.

Now, that would be my christmas wish :P

[jyajay]

Ok I got another question: How can I stop the archive from giving output on "invalid thread" and "invalid forum" in the case that something was removed or moved?

Currently the path of this error messages is totally wrong although I want to simply get a 404 error if a forum or thread does not exist:

normal forum: http://foobar.com/forum
archive: http://foobar.com/forum/archive

wrong path: http://foobar.com/forum/archive/forum