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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[Bytecon]

Thanks,

Great to know that you will be releasing an update.

"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."

Won't this confuse the search engines? Would rewriting it effect loading times or anything?

[Vtec44]

I have this on my board, it works great (the bugs didn't bug me ). But, it interferes with the EMail Address Obfuscator mod. I thought you may want to know

[Dean C]

Vtec, what does that mod do?

[JTyson]

Originally Posted by Dean C

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.

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

Should be great, thanks for your time put into this.

[unknowngiver]

still havent got my answer
is it only for the beta versions or can i use it for the GOLD 3.5 too

[Bytecon]

It works with Gold, yes.

[Vtec44]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Vtec, what does that mod do?

It converts email links to picture, to prevent spammers from using a bot to collect them.

You can read about it here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=97704

[Dean C]

I don't see why they would clash. What exactly is the bug and problem with the two together?

[Vtec44]

Instead of the hashed image of email links, all I got were redx's. When I deactivate your mod, then everything went back to normal.

[Dean C]

That's very strange. I don't have time to figure out why that is right now.

Just to let everyone know, I have the new updated version working flawlessly (to my knowledge). One of the new major features is that all old URLs redirect to the new ones:

e.g. showthread.php?t=1 redirects to t1-thread-title.html