Mini Mods - Hide Version Number.

This is a small hack that it will allow you to turn off the public display of the version number of your vBulletin forum. You can enable and disable it at the Acp-Options-Forums Home Page Options.

I know that it can be easily done by changing the language phrase but this way is handier in my opinion.

Note: This mod it will hide the version at the footer only. It is meant to add some kind of security for ex, when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random.


To remove the version from showing when viewing the page source, do the following edits to the headinclude template

Find the following code:

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $vboptions[templateversion]" />

and change it to:

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin" />

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Zachery

You can easily acomplish the same goal (removing the version number) by editing a phrase. This saves you cpu cycles and is something you'd likely never have to worry about updating or breaking your pages.

Even like this you won''t have to worry about breaking your pages. Plus like this it supports multiple languages as well.

[Zachery]

So instead of editing 1 phrase 1 time, you'd rather waste cpu cycles on every page view forever and ever?

[haytham]

Doesn't work for me at all.

[digicom]

Have you selected yes in Forum Home Page Options?

Originally Posted by haytham

Doesn't work for me at all.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Zachery

So instead of editing 1 phrase 1 time, you'd rather waste cpu cycles on every page view forever and ever?

Can you explain a bit more in details please by giving a few examples how this wastes cpu cycles on every page view forever and ever, as you put it?

[segwayon]

Originally Posted by extreme-gaming

Thats why people suggest to add a .htpasswd + .htaccess to the admin directory. Observe: http://vgchat.info/forum/admincp/

Could you suggest a sample code for these files in order to establish the security on this folder? Thanks in advance.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by segwayon

Could you suggest a sample code for these files in order to establish the security on this folder? Thanks in advance.

Have a look here:

http://www.htaccesstools.com/htaccess-authentication/

[final kaoss]

Yes first you will want to use that link to create the htaccess file and then use this link to create the .Htpasswd file
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

[borbole]

Instructions to remove the version from showing at the page source were added at the very first post of this topic.

[Skydiver10]

Great hack! Nice work!!! Thanks for all of your hard work on the scripts! :-)

Nominated for MOTM!

Is there still a way to externally view the version number, or does this hack pretty much take care of it?