Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.

Requirements:

• You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
• This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[TruthElixirX]

Works great on categories, forums, and threads. Thanks Dean.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by jbd

Yes, would be nice to see this fixed.

The author has announced he is gone until Christmas time.

[Bad Bunny]

Step 2 says to upload the htaccess file to my forum root...but where is this file I am supposed to upload? Do I make it? What do I put in it?

EDIT>
Bah. I would recommend for the future you name the file ht.access so us mac users can easily upload the file and then change the name to .htaccess :disappointed:

[jribz]

Originally Posted by Brinnie

Dean, I need help.

The mod broke my forum and I need to uninstall it. I have removed the plugin and the htaccess, but the weird URLS don't go away....

How can I make them go away?

You have to disable both Plugins that are added as well as the htaccess entries, probably what you missed.

[PennylessZ28]

Doesn't work for me, just turns every link into a 404 error.

The requested URL /757forums.com/f3-meets-and-greets.html was not found on this server.

No shit, thats cuase that file doesn't exist. Mod re-write is on, so what gives?

[InfoSpyware]

Hi all

I have a two cuestion:

1.- This hack work in the final version 3.5 Gold ?

2.- I have a same hack working in vB 3.09 and the url name is only
"t[number] .html"

That it is what I must change so that this works equal ??

Salu2

[jstraa]

Hey dean,

Realy good, just got a copy of vBulleltin and was looking
for these plugin, this is absolutely worth installing !

Is there a way you can fix when a post is like;

hello my name is Jeroen !
Will become f1-hello-my-name-is-Jeroen-.html
Can you get rid of the trailing dash ?

Keep up the good work !

[VaaKo]

I just wanna know something
does it actually work?
does it bring spiders to your web?
anyone has it on his site ?

[Lord Brar]

Thanks mate!

[Booth]

For what anyone says - I've read on other threads people saying it doesn't bring traffic to sites - they are wrong.

I installed this on my 3.0.7 site, took me a few hours to get working correctly, but I found threads from my site taking much higher search engine rankings than before and this meant I started getting more hits per day.

I'm now running 3.5Gold and my site really misses it, and it's already started disappearing down the ranks at google! I will be installing this hack as soon as it's finished :ninja: