Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

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

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[Dean C]

I'm not 100% on this but what does the W3C schema say about non-english characters in URI's?

[Greivog]

Is there a way to get this working on windows based servers?

Thanks

Paul

[peety]

Has the 301 permanent redirect issue been solved in this release?

[Nutz]

Is there any chance of getting the "Last Post" links on the forum home to be the same SEO format?

Thanks,
Mat

[xtreme-mobile]

how can we get it to convert the actual post them selves? can this be done cos all its doing on mine is the thgread titles not the actaual post?

any one know?

cheers

[mfizzel]

Dean C thank you so much for all of your work on this, I've yet to install (haven't upgraded to 3.5 from 3.0.x) but I'm following this thread very closely and this will be one of the first plugins I install for my 3.5 board.

I also look forward to your latest update of this code that you mentioned, I'd also be happy to donate towards this project - the time you spend on this is greatly appreciated

[yinyang]

this is working great for my forum titles. but the thread titles aren't showing the titles. any ideas what may be wrong?

[Nutz]

Got a link yinyang?

Thanks,
Mat

[mfizzel]

I installed it, it installed flawlessly.

My forum titles and thread titles are all now in .html format with proper thread titles, this is quite awesome ...I've yet to run into any issues, but I've only been running it for today.

[high]* mfizzel clicks install[/high]

[StarBuG]

Hi

Thank you for this plugin but there is an issue.

I have specified a subforum as a link.
The rewrite works just fine up to the link forum.
After that all urls are the normal forum urls with no rewrite.

take a look:
http://www.hiphop-battles.com/forum/index.php
(below "Beatbox Tutorials" it stops)

the issue is only present on the index page.

Any idea where the problem is?