Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[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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[VaaKo]

It might be installed, but it could be configured incorrectly

how is this possible?

[d3f]

For those wanting to do this with lighthttpd simply add the following code to your lighttpd conf.

Of Coarse editing the top line to include your forums domain.

$HTTP["host"]=="your.forum.domain" {
  url.rewrite = (
    "^/f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$" => "/forumdisplay.php?f=$1",
    "^/t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$" => "/showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10"
  )
}

[VaaKo]

what's lighthttpd conf and where can I find it?
or you mean edit the htaccess file?

$HTTP["host"]=="your.forum.domain" << the domain name would be =="http://www.oneforum.org" ????

[d3f]

lighttpd is an alternative to the apache webserver.

You can find information about it on there website. http://www.lighttpd.net/

[VaaKo]

I donno on what kind of server am I on
but how can I resolve my problem?

[Oreamnos]

WOW! Awesome. Thank you!

[Kila_Bite]

Just out of curiosity, is there any way of applying mod_rewrite to your forum archive too?

[oezer]

same problem, vb 3.5.0, in my phpinfo. is mod_rewrite enabled on loaded modules.. plugins is installing fine.. but if i upp the .htaccess on my forums root directory...

error 403.. damn..
and now?

[Bytecon]

Installed, works wonders, thanks

[Bytecon]

Dean,

Noticed a few things,

- It does not change the URLS on the "LAST POST" part to the right of each forum listing.

- URLS are not re writen in the subscribed threads area.

Just pointing that out, obviously you will consider adding stuff like that before you take it out of BETA?

Another question, is there a way to get it to work with my "Latest Threads" hack that displays on the main page.

Thanks,
Michael