vB Easy Archive - Search Engine Spiderable Hack!

Ok, as a lot of users have installed SkuZZy's and mine vB Easy Archive Hack i've decided to release a vB3 Version as well.

As vB3 already comes with an build in Archive System, it's not that needed than it was in vb2, but for all of you, who have installed the vb2 version and don't want to loose their indexed Pages, this one is for you

I'm lazy and therefore will copy the Releasetext of vb2 by SkuZZy.

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_mime. If you don't have mod_mime, you will still be able to install this hack, just read the install.txt for help then.

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demo

To view a demo of this script, visit this site:
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 3.x
mod_mime installed (not absolutelly required, but recommended)
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - It is recommended to have mod_mime installed to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html
If you want to run vb Easy Archive without mod_mie, please look into the install.txt

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Forumlist yes, but threadlist no - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=91
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=153

Credits
SkuZZy aka Adam J. de Jaray, who gets my Special Thanks for his modifications, releasing and of course his Support to my Script's vb2 version. Note, he does not have anything to do with the vb3 version, but without him, there wouldn't have been the vb2 version and therefore i would never have released the one for vb3

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all I ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "install.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[lazserus]

vBulletin has a built in archiving feature. What's the big difference between this hack and vB's already built in sitemapping utility?

[tfw2005]

Originally Posted by lazserus

vBulletin has a built in archiving feature. What's the big difference between this hack and vB's already built in sitemapping utility?

OK, I read every post in this thread, didnt see anything for this.

Have Apache, Mod_mime installed

Using mod_mime version

Forum index works, but when you click a link, I get a pop up window with

query_first(" SELECT COUNT(threadid) AS threads FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread') WHERE forumid = $forumid AND visible = 1 AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL "); $pagination = fetch_pagelinks($threadcount['threads'], $archive_options['forumfile'] . '/' . $forumid); $threads = $DB_site->query(" SELECT threadid, title FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread') WHERE forumid = $forumid AND visible = 1 AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL ORDER BY sticky DESC, lastpost DESC LIMIT " . (($pagenumber - 1) * 200) . ", 200 "); $threadbits = ''; while ($thread = $DB_site->fetch_array($threads)) { $threadbits .= "
$thread[title]\n"; } archive_output(" $pagination

$threadbits 
"); ?>

Something Im missing? I had 500 and parse errors earlier, but got them fixed. This issue tho, everything seems configed and installed server side as discussed here.

Test it out at

www.tfw2005.com/boards/archive/

[Xenon]

you may have uploaded a corrupted file.

try to download the zip again, and use an FTP program which takes care about your files.
there are some which can corrupt them.

[tfw2005]

Originally Posted by Xenon

you may have uploaded a corrupted file.

try to download the zip again, and use an FTP program which takes care about your files.
there are some which can corrupt them.

I redownloaded it from here. Unpacked, edited config, uploaded via FTP again. CHMODed to 755 on all files, and directory archive. Set FTP to ASCII as default. Same error

I did notice that forum and topic were still uploading in Binary even tho I had ASCII set to be forced.

I then renamed them to forum.php and topic.php on my comp, uploaded in ascii, CHMODED to 755, and renamed on the server back to forum and topic.

Same issue.

A side note, I uploaded all via WINSCP, SFTP as root, and got 500 errors. Owner and group changed to root when I did that so I think that was the issue.

Is it possible the VB.org version of the file is corrupted, or, there is another server side issue?

Im running a Linux box, Apache, Proftpd 1.29 (which was just patched to work again), Mysql 4X.

Ill try with a different FTP program, but this is the issue so far.

EDIT: Via Core FTP, same issue.

[Xenon]

hmm, wierd...

i have no idea, but the vb.org file is ok, as you're the only one having that error.

[tfw2005]

Originally Posted by Xenon

hmm, wierd...

i have no idea, but the vb.org file is ok, as you're the only one having that error.

OK, well this is really weird.

I switched to the .php versions of this, edited config and forum / topic files accordingly, and now get a 500 error for anything under the index.

Any reason known as to why that issue would happen, aside from the other probelm?

[Xenon]

Hmm?

it seems to be working regarding your link above?

[tfw2005]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Hmm?

it seems to be working regarding your link above?

That is because I ditched this version, and found out how to get the VB version working. That wasnt working because PHP is installed as CGI on my server. I found a German HOW TO on converting the default VB archive to work under that, and ran with that.

Does your version rely on PHP being installed as a module in apache? If so, then it may not work just like the regular VB archive did not. I translated the German walk thru to english (not literal, just what I did) here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...2&postcount=43

I would still love to get yours installed as well, it just didnt seem within my scope to figure out why it wasnt working right now.

[Xenon]

Actually i'm not very good at server configurations and problems, so you may be right that this is the reason.

Well actually i just wrote that hack, for those who had installed the vb2 version, so they won't loose any entries.

I may look at it when my schedule gets less busy, maybe i can find the reason behind.

[joeychgo]

how can I change the title bar in a post?


The title now reads

Lincoln vs Cadillac forums - Thread Title

Id like to just have the thread title -or have my forum name afterward