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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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It doesn't rewrite all the urls. For instance, look at the page nav bar, the urls aren't static. I like this plugin but it'll have to be tinkered with a bit before I use it over the vbrankings plugin.
mod_rewrite has no security issues. It's just an amazing regex processor for incoming/outgoing URLs. If anything it could be considered a security enhancement, because you can hide "real" URLs with goofy ones to throw people off.
mod_rewrite has no security issues. It's just an amazing regex processor for incoming/outgoing URLs. If anything it could be considered a security enhancement, because you can hide "real" URLs with goofy ones to throw people off.
Also if you use the correct format in the rewrite, you can filter out all characters apart from those you expect (such as a-z, A-Z and 1-9) which further helps reduce the chances of exploits and/or injection techniques.
vB is pretty well protected by that already however - but its still nice to think about.
SORRY, there is an "500 Internal Server Error" !
Your browser sent a request that this server could not handle.
The request could not be executed/handled by the server due to malformed syntax or internal configuration.
The client should not repeat the request without modifications.
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