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

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by morrow

Do you think you will be adding the fix for the 'linear / hybrid' modes, etc...? Many of my users are using these and they don't work when the hack is enabled. I'd really love to use this hack and would also donate if it was working.

Very nice hack, but I think a few items were left out.

In the future yes
When is the future? when it comes

I'll see what I can do over the next few weeks...

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by pranism

Another bug I have found , any user with a underscore in their name is not found with this.

Technically, the underscore should be replaced by a "-"

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

I'm also having issues now with users having a _ in their username. I wasn't having this problem before in 1.0.x, but now in 1.5 I am having this problem. I ran the htaccess generator too and it's still having the issue.

Edit: whoops, missed what pranism said and just read it. I'm having the same issue.

Edit2: I'm having some issues on my 'members' pages where the 'base' URL isn't showing up above the meta tags and the image paths aren't working or any of the links in the member profiles. Any idea how I would fix this? (it's an internal board for our business so I can't let you preview it (it's a 10.x.x.x address anyway)). thanks!!

I will look into both of these issues...thanks

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

We have internal spiders on the network that need to pickup these pages and it's also for testing our application platforms. We still have a big need for SEO

Edit: That MEMBERINFO insert fixed it, thanks

Also, when will the sitemap generator for the vRewrite'n pages be available? I'm using an alternate one and the pages redirect fine, but it would be nice to be able to provide SES with regular filename paths. And what's the status about rewriting the RSS feeds?

Glad you got it fixed.


Whenever vBSEO let's me release the hacked sitemap generator

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by COBRAws

Hello, this is a great mod, but im here to repot some bug:

With the Post Thanks hack, you cant give thanks.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92410


Cya!!
ps. PM me your paypal

Thanks, Iwill look into the fix for tis...

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

another problem found:

when viewing a users profile, and you click on the users latest thread posted, you get a cannot find thread error

The double forumname is fixed in an unreleased copy of 1.5 (1.5.1)....

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

Another thing you may consider rewritting are the 'announcements'.

/announcement.php?f=41

those pages could be rewritten and properly formatted to SEs pick them up.

I wasn't sure of the best way to display grouped announcements (i.e. which title to put inside the URL), sO I left this out...

[Danecookie]

I dont know what is the problem but its giving me error.. its giving 2 slashes in my URLS.. and when we click on any forum section through forum home it gives 404 error, but if we click on threads form forumhome, its working fine.. but there still are 2 slashes in all urls..

please see the screenshot for more details and help.. thanks

[multireg]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

The double forumname is fixed in an unreleased copy of 1.5 (1.5.1)....

Can you please post a fix on this (either the changed source or a link to 1.5.1)?

Thanks,

MultiReg

[Danecookie]

Hello? Someone Help ?!!

>> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1159