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.

[fragov]

Thank you for a great modification. But I have a one problem with it. I'm using "Hard Style" URLs and have my forum in a directory (site.com/forum), when I open site.com/forum sub-forums URLs (for example, I have forum: "forum" (id:1) and sub-forum: "sub-forum" (id:2)) are displaying fine (site.com/forum/sub-forum-f2), but then I open sub-forum link (site.com/forum/sub-forum-f2/), threads links are showing in wrong way (site.com/forum/edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f2/thread-t1.html).
So from front page and from forum page link are fine (sub-forum-f2), but on sub-forum page it becomes (edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f2).
Are it because my forum located in /forum/ directory? How can I fix it?

[Phaedrus]

It seems to be working well for my site. I'll update if I find any bugs and I'll watch for any updates that may be necessary.

Excellent hack.

[Nick Harris]

I gave this a go on 3.7.4 patch 1, flawless.

If you use Godaddy as your provider be patient, it won't work at first because Godaddy takes time to update things on their end... sometimes up to 2 hours. It will work "all of a sudden" though. The same thing happens with wordpress and permalinks.

Nice product.

[Sadikb]

Originally Posted by anderow

Hi

You DO have a duplicate content problem

It is NOT due to TFSEO I dont think, but

http://www.club-oracle.com/
http://www.club-oracle.com/index.php
http://club-oracle.com/index.php


All give identical content. That is a very bad thing for SERP

Yes u r right. That is basically vbAdvanced's index.php and it's not bcos of TFSEO but my laziness to write a htaccess rule!

Actually i have been waiting for Jeff to come up with his update and then i will reolve this (and a few other) issues with my site.

[rockinaway]

I am using this and it seems to be causing problems with niftycorners.

If you go here http://www.adminfuel.com/

All the corners round on the sidebar, except those which are in a topic view.. why?

[Jaxel]

We need this updated for the inlinemod functions in 3.8.0

[Phaedrus]

Quick question...

Would there be a way to add a list of words you don't want to include in the urls?

Stuff like "uh" or "f**k" would be good choices. I don't want to censor the forum, but I also don't want the urls to be adult themed.

[fragov]

Hmm, strange. Now links are ok, maybe it something related to cache.

BTW, if forum located in some folder, that contain letter "f" in it's name, rules in .htaccess won't work. Why not to correct them like that:

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine On

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] 


[Phaedrus]

One quick problem.

When you are running a search on all posts by one user, for some reason it takes you only to the single post rather than to the post on the thread. It is dropping the page12345# before post12345

Basically it should say (medium version) ./title-of-thread-t12344/page12346#post12346

Instead it tries to bring up title-of-thread-t12344/post12346

Anyway, the old style of ./showthread.php?p=382269#post382269 which shows the whole thread but brings you to the post, gets changed to only show the post basically what you get with the old style of ./showpost.php?p=382269&postcount=53

Edit:

Here is what it is doing. It drops the page12346# before /post12346, if I add that it brings up the right result to make it look like this /page12346#post12346 then it works, how do I get it to add that on the search results?

If I put in the showthread.php?p=382269#post382269 directly I get thread-title-t1234/page2#post382269

So it redirects, but somehow the results page is linking the wrong result, when I turn off the mod it works...

:dunno:

Thanks.

[Phaedrus]

Another:

Viewpost for an ignored poster, or for a deleted message, does not play nice with this mod. Which probably means a .jss needs to be "fixed" to read the new urls.

I'll have to deactivate it until I have full functionality with the mod. Great idea though, once the bugs are worked through this will RAWK.