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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[jesus likes pie]

Originally Posted by vau7

I ve got no Problems with da Search Function.

You don't? I go to "New Posts" and when I click on one of the threads it goes to the php file.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by jesus likes pie

You don't? I go to "New Posts" and when I click on one of the threads it goes to the php file.

This mod is not converting all urls in your board to html. It converts most of them.

Does anyone having problem switching between styles when browsing a html page with this mod ?

[vau7]

Yeah youre right, but i thought about some real problems with it.

My only problem is the WIO, how are you with that.
Klick rewrtied link to thread and look in new tab expanded WIO, the titel of this thread is missing.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by vau7

Yeah youre right, but i thought about some real problems with it.

My only problem is the WIO, how are you with that.
Klick rewrtied link to thread and look in new tab expanded WIO, the titel of this thread is missing.

I know that also. There is a problem in whois online. Hope we can figure this out. Also forumdisplay are showing up as unknown location in whois online.

[unknowngiver]

is it for the gold version? [like wil it work wid gold version]
and how do i check mod_rewrite is available to me
.....without asking my hosting company

[007]

I can definitely confirm the bug with Who's Online. It no longer shows what thread a user is viewing, and when viewing a forum, it is displayed as"

Unknown Location
/f1-forum-name.html

Would be nice if Who's Online still worked properly, but other than that great mod! Very useful!

Please fix the Who's Online problem though. Looks like others are experiencing this problem too.

[007]

Ok search didn't work for me either. I had to uninstall for now since many of my members use the new posts search function to see the threads they haven't read yet.

[Dean C]

The WOL is intential. At the time I couldn't think of a way to show what thread they are viewing. It's a small sacrifice to make unfortunately.

[Bytecon]

Dean > Any chance of implementing this in the future? Also, what about the issue when serching? Would I best to install and wait for an update? When uninstalling, do you just remove the pluggin?

[Dean C]

I've just spent a couple of hours farting around with a few new features. I don't think I can fix the WOL issue. I can't get my head around it. I think I've discovered the problem with not all URLs being rewritten. I didn't take into account the sessionhash in the URLs that appear on some boards

Also I'm currently trying to work out a way to redirect the old URLs to the new ones via a gateway script which will take the threadid, get the title of it and rewrite the old (showthread.php?t=x) to the new one (tx-thread-title.html). Having a few problems with apache at the moment.

As far as rewriting the lastpost. This URL will change almost every hour on a medium-sized board. I see little value in rewriting it.

Also search-results should now be rewritten for getnew posts. There's little point rewriting the search-results for a real-search as part of the query string is designed to highlight the word, and that will vary thousands of times on a per-search basis.

Hopefully shall release sometime in the next week, depending on how busy uni is.