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

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Immortal

What do you mean? Dean must be angry that his Mom didn't give him his cereal this morning, or exams are getting too tough. One of the small prices of being a coder that's still in school. vRewrite is just as efficient as Dean's. I can't say the same about vBSEO as it's encoded. If you find anything that's not "efficient" then let me know, and I'll be happy to investigate the problem.

First of all, stop throwing your dummy out the pram. Second of all, I explained to you exactly what is inefficient about your modification. Take it or leave it, and don't take it personally. You should be trying to learn, not snap because you can't take criticism.

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by Dean C

First of all, stop throwing your dummy out. Second of all, I explained to you exactly what is inefficient about your modification. Take it or leave it, and don't take it personally. You should be trying to learn, not snap because you can't take criticism.

All I can see is you yellin' at my hack saying don't install it. Yet you never once said what was wrong specifically. You used a general term, and I looked through it and didn't see anything of that nature. I'll admit, I'm a PHP programmer, not a vB coder. I'm still learning the tricks of the trade, so I won't doubt there is problems. But you used a general term which I could not find. So could you? I would love to fix any issues before 1.0. But I still can't see anything of the nature you described.

[croportal]

There is absolutely no need to run a query to get the forum titles for example, that information is in the forumcache, and also the forumtitle is available in other variables depending on the page you are on. Most of all you have un-necessary regex's being run on pages they don't need to be run on. It's far more efficient to redirect old URLs to their new equivalent using .htaccess, than to to try and rewrite every rule everywhere or at least limit the regex's on pages they only need to be on.

i agree with Dean, i have very large board and this will be...uffff

Everyone please remain calm here. Immortal, Dean's criticism was all constructive in my opinion and he wasn't being personal about any of it. I must assure everyone to keep their posts in this thread towards this hack only. Please do not bring up any other similiar modifications or anything else for that matter, it is not fair to the author and anyone else looking for valuable content concerning the hack. If you feel you need to discuss a hack or multiple hacks, you can do so maturely in an independent thread in the General Modifications Forum.

[adb22791]

Originally Posted by Dean C

My SEO mod is not aimed at just rewriting URLs, when it comes out of beta it'll rewrite many sections of the vB HTML output, and also come with a sitemap generator of it's own and SEO tips in the readme. But the rewriting of URLs in my modification is done a lot more efficiently, the regexs are only called when they need to be. And no queries are run to get any of the information.

Good for you, now shut up and go write yours instead of picking on other peoples threads. Telling people not to install a hack somebody worked hard on is ridiculus. None of us would do that in your thread would we, so grow up and learn to show some respect.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by adb22791

Good for you, now shut up and go write yours instead of picking on other peoples threads. Telling people not to install a hack somebody worked hard on is ridiculus. None of us would do that in your thread would we, so grow up and learn to show some respect.

I didn't bring my modification into this topic whatsoever until someone mentioned it.

Anyways, Immortal, you should look at only running code on certain pages by checking the value of THIS_SCRIPT. Also the forum titles are stored in the datastore cache and you should use that to get the title associated with an ID.

[vau7]

Originally Posted by Immortal

What do you mean? Dean must be angry that his Mom didn't give him his cereal this morning, or exams are getting too tough. One of the small prices of being a coder that's still in school. vRewrite is just as efficient as Dean's. I can't say the same about vBSEO as it's encoded. If you find anything that's not "efficient" then let me know, and I'll be happy to investigate the problem.

Sorry, but youre a bad loser. Deans arguments posting by posting are full of facts & hints for you and you just spit these childish stuff instead of arguments.

Go ahead, read the Code by Dean an learn.

@Dean: Concentrate on your exams and dont look in threads like this.

[MidnightPyro]

Originally Posted by vau7

Sorry, but youre a bad loser. Deans arguments posting by posting are full of facts & hints for you and you just spit these childish stuff instead of arguments.

Go ahead, read the Code by Dean an learn.

@Dean: Concentrate on your exams and dont look in threads like this.

Bad loser? I don't really think anyone's losing here - especially someone who takes the time and effort to release their work to the community for free. While I know Dean most likely didn't have bad intentions, when you recommend NOT installing someone's hack in their thread, I can see why the hack author would get upset.

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Anyways, Immortal, you should look at only running code on certain pages by checking the value of THIS_SCRIPT. Also the forum titles are stored in the datastore cache and you should use that to get the title associated with an ID.

Thank you Dean. I'm fixing it now for 1.0. As I said, I'm not a vB programmer

[Chroder]

Also keep in mind this plugin is still considered 'beta' (as anyone can clearly see by looking at the 'Mod Version' information above).

The author is taking suggestions, fixing errata and is trying to optimize for version 1.0. We can't ask anything more then that

Anyway, good job thus far on the mod.