Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[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]

Originally Posted by nealparry

it appears to be working on www.burnleyweb.com/forum

I already have a .htaccess file, i presume I can just add the code from yours to my current one?

Yes, just be sure not to have two instances of "RewriteEngine On"

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Yes, just be sure not to have two instances of "RewriteEngine On"

No problem, thanks for that. Great hack, i'm trying to get my site known more to the local community and anything like this that helps is brilliant!

[Blam Forumz]

This baby works like a charm on RC2 For me,take a look; www.blamforums.com/forum/


edit: After a search on the forum, when you click any of the threads, the url isn't rewritten, it's the same old .php one :/


edit 2: Also, when you view a thread through the whos online page, it doesn't take you to the rewritten page

[Dean C]

Hmm seems this has issues with vB3 RC1+. Will have to look into it closer when I have more time

[Blam Forumz]

Thanks deany :P I can call you that right? anyway, I think i've spotted another forum;

in the who's online, when people are viewing forums it says this;

Unknown Location
/forum/f7-thunderdome.html

But when people are viewing threads they're fine, except the url is not rewritten

edit: it doesn't even display most threads

[Dean C]

There most have been some major internal changes in the beta which is causing this then. I'll look into it soon. Right now I'm working on a large project and have no free time

[haiboss]

Click install , thanks !

[Blam Forumz]

Have you got any free time now Deany? ¬¬

[JirQUEST]

i'm getting 403 errors. mod_rewrite as well?

[Phlex]

when is the release of the version for 3.5 rc2 ?