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

[kurtbarker]

I can see your point in regards to that post, and others like it... and I appologise for the overall tone of my post. but yours sounded negative in general, and I got the wrong impression from that...

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by Solitary

I noticed that the url rewrite does not work with subforums. Is there going to be a support for that?

It works with subforums -- take a look at my site, I have so many subforums lol

EDIT: sorry i forgot to add this
PM me or please provide me a link to your site so I can try and reproduce it.

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by xStylezx

Bhuwan,ive said it before in this thread and ill say it again,great work on this mod man.Dont worry about the ungreatful people.I myself am not seeing alot of problems with this mod and the ones i have had Bhuwan has taken care of.He has also been willing to add a feature or two just because i requested it through aim.You cant get better than that for a free mod.Keep up the great work Bhuwan

thanks!

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by Jay...

i couldnt agree more, looking through this thread the support has been exceptional! well done Bhuwan!

thanks!

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by xStylezx

Oh,one more thought.Right now the only thing that worries me as far as possible dupe is the newpost and lastpost links that are rewritten on forum home.Its the same content of the original thread,just with a "newpost" or "lastpost" added to the url.That is a worry of mine right now,ive sent you a pm a little while ago Bhuwan when you were away for a while,if you still have it there are more details there.I think it would be better to rewrite like this

www.forumhome.com/forumname/threadname.html#1270

which at the time of me writing this "1270" is the "lastpost" in this thread.it happens to be my post.

The problem with this is you add an additional query to the page, which is unacceptable for busy forums (imagine adding 2 additional queries for every forumdisplay page!)

[Bhuwan]

Originally Posted by sickboy6ths

I had to write an extra rule to fix the search result (when you click on a post link instead of the threads link), for now this rule only makes sure you don't get an error and get routed to the right thread, it seems that the #post is not working, don't know enough of this to assess the problem, anyone any idea?

RewriteRule ^(.*)/t-(.*)-(.*)-post(.*).html showthread.php?t=$3#post$4&is_vrewrite=yes&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I am a bit confused - -perhaps you can PM me and I can work on this?>

[Bhuwan]

For those still irritated with teh WOL bug -- its nearly fixed...Furthermore, I've added a new feature that will allow you to disable rewriting on certain pages.
Example, you can stop writing online.php if there is still an issue with the next release, or you can stop any other php page from being rewritten.

[girish.r]

WOW. I am eagerly waiting for then next release!

[Logikos]

I would like to see how this comes out also. I have this installed on my test site. I don't want to add this to my old site, because it's hard getting spidered all over again. Though I want to open a new site, so this hack will be perfect for me. So far everything is working on my test site besides the few small bugs posted. Hope to see this released soon, but take your time and don't rush code.

[xStylezx]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

The problem with this is you add an additional query to the page, which is unacceptable for busy forums (imagine adding 2 additional queries for every forumdisplay page!)

Damn,i didnt think about that.Hmmm,would it be really hard to "rel=nofollow" the new and last post links then?Now that i think about it,it would be nice to be able to "rel=nofollow" certain links through vrewrite settings in admincp.