Originally posted by Velocd Skuzzy forgot to mention that is he still using some of the code from either overgrown's or fastforward's hack, which is why it's producing the .html extensions, and which is why search engines are picking up on it better. The visual appearance and layout of his Archiv Hack is much different than original, not to mention the original purpose of the first archiv hack wasn't to allow easier spidering for search engines..but reduced file size in database.
Anyway, Skuzzy please if you could share the method for doing this as Logician mentioned. It would be of great help
I'm not using any code from overgrowns hack. Overgrown's hack never made .html extensions, just directories... but it used 404 errors to do them, which search engines don't like. But with these scripts, I simply used mod_rewrite to do the .html part. It was pretty easy and it's all done server-side, so google can't tell the difference. The .html files don't actually exist though. About fastforward's hack, i'm not using any of his code, but it's the same basic idea. The only difference is, these archive scripts require no hacking of the board, it shouldn't even really be considered a hack, just an "addon". It's as simple as uploading the 3 scripts to a sub-directory and changing a few variables (you need to have mod_rewrite enabled though). With fastforward's hack (not that I have anything against it, it's a good hack) you needed to modify alot of templates and it gets pretty messy. Plus, with vb3 around the corner, it is silly to hack a board up when upgrading will soon be here
But anyways, i've made up my mind... I will be releasing this hack. I'm going to add a few variables to it and clean it up a bit and should release it over the weekend, if I get some time. I want to state once again though, this is xenon's hack and he is the mastermind behind it, i've just spiced it up a bit.
11-30-2002, 03:10 PM
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