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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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by 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

Hi Dontom, I use Dean's code too, and the umlaut's are preserved:

http://de.castlecops.com/forum

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by 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

The latest version replaces foreign characters with their english equivalent. But I have yet to decide whether to replace foreign chars or not yet Please bare in mind I have not yet released the latest version.

[Dontom]

Thank you both for your answer! I will wait then for the next version
Thomas

[descds]

OK i tried this but for some reason i couldn't get it to work.

I already have SEO friendly url's running in my subdreamer part of the site so i uploaded the plugin and put the copied

PHP Code:

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L] 


To my already established .htaccess file

PHP Code:

Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php 


so i ended up with

PHP Code:

Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L] 


It was working in as much to say that the forum links changed to html links but clicking them resulted in a page not found.

So i thought maybe its the base url as my forums, like many, are in the /forum/ directory of the root.

So i removed that, still the same. So i changed too

RewriteBase /forum

Still the same

and tried

RewriteBase /forum/

Still the same. What did i do wrong ?

[Dean C]

It's not that simple descds. This rule redirects everything (which is a bad thing), but I won't get into a discussion on poor usage of mod_rewrite now:

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

This will send every single URL you type to index.php. Why it's doing that I have no idea. This should be a temporary fix for you though:

 Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

Give it a try anyway

[descds]

Originally Posted by Dean C

It's not that simple descds. This rule redirects everything (which is a bad thing), but I won't get into a discussion on poor usage of mod_rewrite now:

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

This will send every single URL you type to index.php. Why it's doing that I have no idea. This should be a temporary fix for you though:

 Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10 [L]

Give it a try anyway

Thanks Dean but it didn't work My SEO friendly urls for subdreamer worked perfectly well but the forum ones results in a page not found on clicking ...

Any other ideas ?

[Dean C]

Do you have subdreamer and your forum in the same directory?

[ginger22]

Some questions about this hack:
1. Bug in thread, when it displayes pages, i.g. page2 have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/t...his-forum.html and page 3 of 3 have - http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/s...9&page=3&pp=10
why?
2. How about "Last post" in forum index? it have http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/forum/s...=newpost&t=291, but i want to have hack this too.

P.S. Sorry for my English.

[descds]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Do you have subdreamer and your forum in the same directory?

No dean. Subdreamer is off the root and the forum is in forum/

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by descds

No dean. Subdreamer is off the root and the forum is in forum/

Then put just put the .htaccess file that is in the original zip in the forum directory