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vRewrite is an advance but simple system to rewrite vB's URLs. The rewrite system uses preg_match_all and str_replace to rewrite the URLs. It will rewrite any URLs that are dynamic ex: showthread.php?t= to /the-forum/title-of-the-forum-id.html. Why? SEs (Search Engines) rate results based on filename. Not only that, but most SEs give a "boost" to static URLs (what we do here) versus dynamic URLs. vRewrite accomplishes both of this, for all URLs that a search engine (or a guest) will see. Installation Please download vRewrite.zip and read install.html for more information on how to install it. Requirements vRewrite assumes that you are using Apache with the mod_rewrite module enabled, and running vBulletin 3.5.x. However, if you ask for support here on IIS' module or on vBulletin 3.0.x - I will be more then happy to assist you. Contributions I would like to thank Chroder and Cole for assisting me release vRewrite. I could not have released it if it wasn't for them. I would like to thank the following people/boards for helping beta test vRewrite and making it a better product. Gaming Ultimate, BP Gaming, NBS Designz Cyclez, Hosting-Talk and Forum University. Copyright I've spent many hours working and perfecting vRewrite. The only thing I ask you to do is if you use it, please keep the link back. If you wish to put it in your style instead, simply remove or comment out that line. However, if you use vRewrite you MUST link back. That is the only thing I ask. Known Issues There are no known issues with the latest release (1.0). Support / Issues If you have any problems or discover a bug please post here in this thread. I have also included my email in the install.html email for one-on-one support. The only thing I ask you is please do not post this email address publicly - it is my personal email. Changelog 1.5 Release - vRewrite 1.5 has become stable, and all users under 1.5 RC3 and 1.0 need to upgrade. Support for 1.0 will no longer be offered, and you will be told simply to upgrade. Please continue to keep all bug and feature suggestions on the bug tracker at: Code:
http://www.techhelpforum.com/vrewrite 03/26/06 - Updated the thread to reflect vRewrite 1.5 Beta links. vRewrite files has NOT changed. 03/11/06 - Updated the thread to take advantage of vB.org's new prefix feature. vRewrite itself has NOT changed. 1.0 Release (02/19/06) - I have released the much awaited 1.0. This is the first stable release of vRewrite. All users now should be safe installing vRewrite. For more information, and how to upgrade, please see here. 1.0 Preview (01/12/06) - I have released a preview version of 1.0. This is the final version before 1.0 is considered stable. I believe everything should work in this new preview, but one bug (see known issues). Please see here for more information and how to upgrade. 01/05/06 - Updated ZIP to include a fix for boards running a table prefix. You do not need to upgrade unless you previously had SQL errors. You can upgrade by importing the product and choose "Allow Overwrite". Donations Any donations are very much appreciated! I do this out of my free time and work many hours on it - all for free. Anything to help is always very welcomed If you use vRewrite, please click Install. This helps you keep track of additional upgrades and shows to me that you care about vRewrite You may not post vRewrite ZIP or any files contained in the ZIP on any website. You may not also post any support requests/give support on any website other then this one, without my permission. If you do so, you will get a DMCA for copyright infringement. I do not want this spread to pirated users. Please stop piracy and do not share the source outside of this thread and vB.org/com. Thanks. Support will only be obtained at: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=182 Supporters / CoAuthors Show Your Support
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Ah okay I see it now. I'll try and work on it. If you'd like do you want me to tell you how to turn that part of vRewrite off?
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Well, my .htaccess file that of the zip:
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at the moment, the vrewrite hack is disabled in the admincp. |
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Weird, and mod_rewrite is enabled?
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right now I have it disabled again |
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When I apply the fix here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=300 the thread urls all get rewritten, but, then the only things that gets rewritten is the forums and threads. Everything else is back to vbulletin default. The one thing it breaks completely is viewing the user profile. I haven't looked at the code to chase down the problem. I will when I get a chance. If I find the fix I'll post it. |
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Weird AWS, I'll try and take time to fix it.
Loco.M: Try this: PHP Code:
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AWS, the only difference between that and the one posted earlier is that the SHOWTHREAD's pages is commented out. So the issue will still be there for you, I'll try and ponder on a solution for you.
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Getting the vBulletin url's corrected is certainly not a small task, and you have certainly done well getting this far. Yes, I happen to support the one rewrite that I consider does a 110% job at rewrites, but you are getting there.
I like the nextthread/prevthread per hosting talk but the archive seems to be broken there. I have now read through all the posts here and it looks like you have got many things covered. But can I suggest that you add the following:
Should be an easy job to either mod my vbgsitemap, or the vbseo one for your url's. On page SEO No mention of seo'ing of vBulletin is complete without talking about onpage SEO. If the first words of the title are the words that you are optimizing for, then this phrase should also be in the meta description twice, in an h1, and then repeated in sentence/paragraph form immediately following the h1. Most people posting threads do not repeat the title in the text they write, so repeating it via a formula makes sense. In looking around the forums mentioned on this thread I have seen a few using my formula. In general, with a proper url rewrite (almost achieved here), plus great onpage SEO I have been able to get many vBulletin sites so that their forums and threads are all showing high on the SERP's. And with good search phrase selection, those pages are then able to get good traffic for the forums. The onpage hints are just the same as needed for any site, and can be found on most SEO pages, but I have some specific template changes mentioned on my Search Engine Optimize vBulletin 3.5 thread. |
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Excellent job! I missed all of my rewritten URLs when I converted from IPB to VBulletin. I know that Google can handle dynamic URLs to a degree, but I think this will improve my rankings out there.
Couple of bugs: 1. Send thread to a friend does not work. I commented it out for the plugin code, and now it's fine. It kept reporting a thread not found error, or something to that effect. The URL looked good, not sure where the problem was. 2. Viewing public profile of users has some issues. This is somewhat complicated, so I'll try my best to explain: My user ID is #1. I have another frequent poster who's ID is 14. When we both post in a thread, her profile comes up as mine. To see this in action, visit this thread: http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/vis...h-my-1086.html To see the bad behavior, hover over the first poster's url, and it reads: http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/mem...uffho-631.html The second post down was posted by Earthrooster. her user ID is 14. The URL for her profile is messed up. it reads: http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/members/jester-1.html4 My profile works great though, as evidenced later in the thread: http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/members/jester-1.html It appears the regular expression is a little too general, and probably needs to be refined. Other than that, everything else appears to be working great! I'll probably add some custom rewrites for my arcade, and can post them here, unless you have someplace else that we can post our custom rewrites for the next version? Thanks! |
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