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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[croportal]

i have uploaded and its not working

[Bytecon]

Maybe you could provide a few more details?

[Unexplained.tv]

Originally Posted by Dean C

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)

The main one I'd like to see have a rewrite, would be the last post link... How hard would it be to add that extra rewrite to your code? Right now, it by passes the rewrite and gives out the normal php formatting. I use your Add-on here, for its keyword usage and would appreciate it, if you would add that extra piece on.

[Dean C]

It wouldn't be hard at all. But it would mean the same content has two URLs which is redundant. The last post URL serves a dynamic purpose, allowing you to go to the most recent post in a thread since you last visited the forums. The content for this URL changes all the time, hence IMO it should not be rewritten into a static file.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by croportal

i have uploaded and its not working

There is little point installing this modification on a foreign board I'm afraid. It strips foreign characters which would hold no semantic benefit for your static URLs as a lot of words will have their characters stripped

[:Judge:]

Took a min or two to start working, I waited before I said anything.

Works like a charm!

[vau7]

Originally Posted by RobK

Well, I've just fixed the "who is online" issue's
Just import the xml as a plugin ...

Works fine on my forums http://drogen-forum.com/forum/

RobK, could it be that the server load viewing the WIO is increasing, the online.php loads very slow.

[jugo]

If anyone's interested, I have this working with vBExternal https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83005

see WIP here: http://www.ejuan.com/index2.php

[Dean C]

Good point, external.php need rewriting *takes note*

[tokenyank]

Let me first apologise in advance if this has been addressed previously... I did not read all the posts in this thread, but I'm experiencing the following issue:

Installed the hack and everything works fine with exception of the Online list... When viewing the online list, locations show up like this:

Unknown Location
/forums/f34-cloth-nappies.html

Is there a way that this can be changed back to the way it used to be with clickable links or do I just have to live with "Unknow Location" errors for the sake of better SEO?

Thanks in advance for any advice, and great mod

*clicks install*

EDIT:
mental note: Thread search tool is my friend... I have just seen your reply regarding this... I do hope that this can be sorted at some point though as someone else said, it does make the more non-technical members think there is a problem with the board.