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 jdingman

Will you add in the underscore problems too, to the fix? What about adding in pagination for the memberlist.php page too? such as /members/a/1.php or such, paging for the members listed in each. Just some thoughts.

Undescore is fixed

I will think about adding memberlist pagination...Thanks for the input

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

Any idea when the fix for underscores in usernames will be fixed? I'm hoping another release will happen soon with the upgrades and bug fixes (RSS external, memberlist page rewritting, etc).

COnsider it fixed for the next release undersore is fixed, RSS External support will be added and maybe memberlist pagination...

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by SB_GEMINI

great hack! , though i have a prob when you have multiple pages to a thread and your in the forum view and you got your thread title here like this for example

THREAD TITLE (1 2 3 ... Last Page)
clicking on those other page number links just brings up:

"No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

I am using the latest version of this hack (1.5) and vBulletin 3.5.4

I am not sure what you mean -- can you porvide exact url? it sounds like an htaccess problem to me.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by girish.r

Bhuwan, The problem is with opera browser. My opera version is 9. But quick reply used to work with opera 9 before in had vRewrite. Any idea?

Are you still having the problem? I may download Opera 9 if you are --

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by jdingman

Seems there is a problem with this mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82769

when displaying the member URLs, it only displays them as /members/-###.html and it doesn't display it like /members/username-###.html -- and because of this, it throws a 404 error due to the .htaccess not accepting it.

Any idea if this is a problem on your side or if it's a problem with the mod?

I will add a fix for this.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by HuangA

In my user profiles page, I see


The same thing holds true for most (if not all) of the rewrite page (I've seen showthread, member profile and showforum, not sure about the others); is this normal? Is there a way to fix this?

Edit: sorry, I didn't see you said you'd look into that a few days ago. Another problem I noticed

I have my forums currently rewrite to f--*.html, without the trailing /. On my forum display page, the sort by stuff (IE:sort by thread starter, rating etc.) doesn't work (gives a 404 because it tries to go .html/?parameters). Is there a way to fix this?

I disabled the trailing "/" and it works fine for me -- did you update your htaccess file?

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by benFF

Couldn't find this reported, but my "Who's Online" lists the links as:

t--[ID].html
or f--[D].html

(i.e. missing out the description bit f-[DESC]-[ID].html)....

Next release will fix this

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by benFF

AH, it also kills GARS multiple paging, as the &garpg=X is lost in the 301 switch...

How does GARS affect this? please provide more detials

[Bhuwan]

I am unable to reproduce the reputation bug, so someone please PM me exact method of doing so

[jdingman]

Also, how would I easily get rid of the "/page2.html/?&order=desc" part at the end of the pagination links?