Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[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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[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by Dean C

There is no issue here. That URL serves a function. It redirects to a page with an anchor on with the most recent post. There is no reason whatsoever to rewrite this URL.

Those things are basically for aesthetics. It helps the user see the topic of the thread they are going to, especially if its offsite.

[Moncal]

Originally Posted by Dean C

This is impossible because it makes no changes to your database whatsoever.

I don't know how it happened, but it most certainly did.

When I tried to import the plugin I got a blank white page in admincp that told me that there was an error and that I was either using a vB 3.5.1 file (which I wasn't) or that I needed to upload tools.php and rebuild the cache. When I and everyone else got completely locked out of my forum (including admincp).

Floris came to the rescue and got it fixed today.

[harry1951]

*clicks install*

[glassy]

I was wondering if it is possible to make the urls of my threads / categories

www.url.com/t/32343.html and www.url.com/f/4.html

I have tried myself and got it all working except from when you click links (wherever there is /t/ or /f/) the link does the following www.url.com/f/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=4

Any help would be great otherwise sorry to bother you

[Dean C]

glassy - I've no plans to implement that URL structure. Sorry

[mikehawk]

attn: This is not compatible with the DC SEO vB database indexer for Yahoo and Google. :ermm:

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by mikehawk

attn: This is not compatible with the DC SEO vB database indexer for Yahoo and Google. :ermm:

Sorry? I haven't wrote such a thing?

[mikehawk]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Sorry? I haven't wrote such a thing?

lol, well I guess that is why they do not work together. :nervous:

[Zhen-Xjell]

Example on foreign char returns:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

[Dontom]

Hello,
I intend to use this on a german forum - we use umlauts there (a,?,?,?) - will the code from here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=348) replace them by their english equivalents? (ae, ue, oe, ss)

Thanks
Thomas