vRewrite - SEOed URLs for vBulletin

About

vRewrite is an advance but simple system to rewrite vB's URLs. The rewrite system uses preg_match_all and str_replace to rewrite the URLs. It will rewrite any URLs that are dynamic ex: showthread.php?t= to /the-forum/title-of-the-forum-id.html. Why? SEs (Search Engines) rate results based on filename. Not only that, but most SEs give a "boost" to static URLs (what we do here) versus dynamic URLs. vRewrite accomplishes both of this, for all URLs that a search engine (or a guest) will see.

Installation

Please download vRewrite.zip and read install.html for more information on how to install it.

Requirements

vRewrite assumes that you are using Apache with the mod_rewrite module enabled, and running vBulletin 3.5.x. However, if you ask for support here on IIS' module or on vBulletin 3.0.x - I will be more then happy to assist you.

Contributions

I would like to thank Chroder and Cole for assisting me release vRewrite. I could not have released it if it wasn't for them.

I would like to thank the following people/boards for helping beta test vRewrite and making it a better product.

Gaming Ultimate, BP Gaming, NBS Designz Cyclez, Hosting-Talk and Forum University.

Copyright

I've spent many hours working and perfecting vRewrite. The only thing I ask you to do is if you use it, please keep the link back. If you wish to put it in your style instead, simply remove or comment out that line. However, if you use vRewrite you MUST link back. That is the only thing I ask.

Known Issues

There are no known issues with the latest release (1.0).

Support / Issues

If you have any problems or discover a bug please post here in this thread. I have also included my email in the install.html email for one-on-one support. The only thing I ask you is please do not post this email address publicly - it is my personal email.

Changelog

1.5 Release - vRewrite 1.5 has become stable, and all users under 1.5 RC3 and 1.0 need to upgrade. Support for 1.0 will no longer be offered, and you will be told simply to upgrade. Please continue to keep all bug and feature suggestions on the bug tracker at:

http://www.techhelpforum.com/vrewrite

1.1 Release - Several bug fixes, and a few new features. Details here.

03/26/06 - Updated the thread to reflect vRewrite 1.5 Beta links. vRewrite files has NOT changed.

03/11/06 - Updated the thread to take advantage of vB.org's new prefix feature. vRewrite itself has NOT changed.

1.0 Release (02/19/06) - I have released the much awaited 1.0. This is the first stable release of vRewrite. All users now should be safe installing vRewrite. For more information, and how to upgrade, please see here.

1.0 Preview (01/12/06) - I have released a preview version of 1.0. This is the final version before 1.0 is considered stable. I believe everything should work in this new preview, but one bug (see known issues). Please see here for more information and how to upgrade.

01/05/06 - Updated ZIP to include a fix for boards running a table prefix. You do not need to upgrade unless you previously had SQL errors. You can upgrade by importing the product and choose "Allow Overwrite".

Donations

Any donations are very much appreciated! I do this out of my free time and work many hours on it - all for free. Anything to help is always very welcomed

If you use vRewrite, please click Install. This helps you keep track of additional upgrades and shows to me that you care about vRewrite


You may not post vRewrite ZIP or any files contained in the ZIP on any website. You may not also post any support requests/give support on any website other then this one, without my permission. If you do so, you will get a DMCA for copyright infringement. I do not want this spread to pirated users. Please stop piracy and do not share the source outside of this thread and vB.org/com. Thanks.

Support will only be obtained at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=182

[dizzy100]

ARGHHHHHHHHHH totally confused.

I see a number of discussions on it but no idea which templates to edit for some of the changes. Then theres reworked solutions etc and the catagories one totally confused me.

I have the main arcade rewrite working perfectly but after that it gets to be a grey area.

I'll keep trying but so far no luck

[Immortal]

You can use the feature "Search in templates". Anything that begins with RewriteRule goes into your .htaccess file. Does that help any?

[Selene]

I installed the hack working fine but one problem on main forum index page , when i try to click on the latest forum thread from forumhome it doesnt bring me to that latest thread, because it doesnt include the name of forum in the url. Hence link gets error.

any way to solve this?

[Selene]

and yes i did downlaod the current .zip that there is rightnow. so i suppose im using the latest version of the hack

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by dizzy100

ARGHHHHHHHHHH totally confused.

I see a number of discussions on it but no idea which templates to edit for some of the changes. Then theres reworked solutions etc and the catagories one totally confused me.

I have the main arcade rewrite working perfectly but after that it gets to be a grey area.

I'll keep trying but so far no luck

look at this post it has alot of the tweaks... then there is a few more in the pages following that page... i think maybe the next 3 or 4 pages after that... but that is all of what you need.... also read on that post the original post

[Selene]

DementedMindz can u help with the problem that i posted

[DementedMindz]

i think they may want the problems reported in the bug tracker this way they can tell what is going on... but i think a few things to let them know is if you have vbadvanced installed or how you have things setup... its hard to tell what is going on with out seeing the problem...

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by Immortal

You can use the feature "Search in templates". Anything that begins with RewriteRule goes into your .htaccess file. Does that help any?

thats what i did but although your original arcade worked perfectly, i couldn;t quite get to gripes with the discussion proceeding that It was all over the place.

Take categories for instance.

One part was covered and the other part wasn;t.

So it was :-

<a style="text-decoration:none" href="arcade.php?categoryid=$id">

becomes

<a style="text-decoration:none" href="arcade-categoryid=$id.html">

and then you say

<a href="arcade.php?barsize=1<if condition="$categoryid">

I am not actually too sure on that one, hmm, sorry.

I tried that and my catgories buttons shrink to nothing and are then inaccessible for instance.

its just too fragmented ...

The original v3arcade you did worked perfectly but after that the discussion went over my head ...

[Selene]

can someone help me too? hehe

[DementedMindz]

dizzy100 you have to read what was posted i originally had a alt layout installed... since then i switched back to the stock so the code above you posted will work on stock v3arcade you just need the rewrite rule in htaccess...