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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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that sort of worked. thanks for the suggestion. here's where it stands now, and can people who have this working, let me know if this is right.
on the forum home page, the forum names now come up in the URL. however, the thread titles in the URL in the last post section still show "showthreadX". however, in the forumdisplay, the thread titles show up in the url.
is that normal? if not, what else do you think i'm doing wrong?
Or are they and only don?t show up because of the forum link bug?
No idea, someone else will have to write that for you as I have no idea what the variable is for the threadbits for this hack. And as I've said before I have no intentions of supporting any other modification
Or are they and only don?t show up because of the forum link bug?
i think the same logic applies here as to the Last Post on why these URLS shouldn't be rewritten. in essence, they are technically most recent Last Posts.
i think the same logic applies here as to the Last Post on why these URLS shouldn't be rewritten. in essence, they are technically most recent Last Posts.
Not really, but it's a modification for vB. This modification is for vB, not for its modifications If i went and did the rewriting for every modification, I'd have no time
Regarding the last post and other links that will be treated as duplicate content, imo it makes more sense to remove them alltogether for guests (Spiders) with conditional statments in the templates.
That's what I have done, all links that are php versions of the pages that the hack rewrites I have removed with conditionals for guests, takes a couple hours but well worth it.
I have also removed archives and external.php because they leak the php versions to, if someone grabs your feed then other spiders can follow the links to the php versions from wherever feed is used.
Regarding the last post and other links that will be treated as duplicate content, imo it makes more sense to remove them alltogether for guests (Spiders) with conditional statments in the templates.
That's what I have done, all links that are php versions of the pages that the hack rewrites I have removed with conditionals for guests, takes a couple hours but well worth it.
I have also removed archives and external.php because they leak the php versions to, if someone grabs your feed then other spiders can follow the links to the php versions from wherever feed is used.
Remember not all guests are spiders. The last post even serves a function to guests who don't bother to register. As the new post indicators work off a cookie/session
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If i went and did the rewriting for every modification, I'd have no time 
