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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
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No probs, if it's possible i'll figure it out, the reason behind my asking is because the rewritten url's provide more relevant adsense ads which will result in more click throughs.
I appreciate the fact that you, and the more respectable Authors of Pug-ins, hacks and so forth, come in and discuss your work. I do have a question, which may have been answered elsewhere in the long thread here, and that would be: Are there any plans to rework the re-write, so that it re-writes almost all, if not all of the links? The most important for most of us, would deal with any and all threads and/or forums.
Also, if this is planned, when could we be seeing this new version out? I know youre busy with other things/ including real life, and I hope you dont mind my asking such a question.
The reason I have not made it rewrite ALL links, is that there are some pages that don't need rewriting at all. If you find a page that will contain links that need rewriting, let me know
Just another update, i'm moving out this next week so bit more of a delay I'm afraid (til at least end of October)
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10-18-2005, 11:03 AM
There will (technically) be no down-side to pointing to the old URL as with the new system it'll redirect the old URLs to the new ones 
oh well it will give me time to convert the rest of my sites url's to this format, nearly there 
