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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[dutchbb]

It doesn't always rewrite the thread or forum url, from what I can see only from clicking a thread in forumdisplay. Why is that?

[WizardX]

I have a rewrite engine from mambo CMS running on www.deep.fm , now i added my board @ www.deep.fm/forum but when i activate the SEO plugin + .htaccess in the forum directory it didnt work.

So I though I should add all (except rewriteengine on) into the root folder /.htaccess , this also didnt work out.

213.84.137.41 - - [10/Oct/2005:16:20:43 +0200] "GET /forum/f5-mededelingen.html HTTP/1.1" 404 18493 "http://www.deep.fm/forum/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"

I see in my httpdlog that the link is being clicked but it doesnt rewrite that good apparently.

Thanks for anyone's support which might help.

OOH BTW I set the plugin to inactive , to avoid that people get errors. If someone wants to see it contact me trough msn vinajb (at) gmail (dot) com

[hotrod1]

Flawless, thanks!!!

[WizardX]

I found out that the rewritebase /forum , makes all stuff fixed

My second question is: Isn't it better to do a proxied rewrite , because google seem to like proxied urls?

[Lizard King]

Is there a way to uninstall this plugin ? I tried to uninstall from olugin manager but couldn't find this on the list.

[oezer]

if someone has the same problem:
mod_rewrite is enabled -> you can see it on Maintenance -> View PHP Info

but get permanently error 403, take a look on your server on /etc/apache2/*_vhost.conf file, i used a rootserver with confixx3.0

<Directory "/home/htdocs">
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
deny from all
</Files>
AllowOverride All # This one must set!
AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
Options None
Options +FollowSymLinks +Includes
</Directory>


<Directory "/home/htdocs/userdirectory/html">
AllowOverride All # this one
Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch # and this one
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>

and now it works fine !

[Lizard King]

I am still waiting for a way to uninstall this Plugin.
Help will be appriciated.

[WizardX]

You can use in the plugin menu that you can up or download / remove plugins to work. Shouldn't be too hard to find..

Good luck

[VaaKo]

oezer, what do u mean by it has to be set?

[oezer]

sorry for my bad english..
set means = write

here is orginalcode before i change the lines..

<Directory "/home/htdocs">
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
deny from all
</Files>
AllowOverride None
AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
Options None
Options +FollowSymLinks +Includes
</Directory>


<Directory "/home/htdocs/userdirectory/html">
Options -FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>

i hope u see the different why mod_rewrite not works.. on my server mod_rewrite was enabled, but it doesn't work, and with this changes on /etc/apache2/confixx_vhost.conf it's works!

kind regards