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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[Makaveli105]

not sure if this has been mentioned...

in Forum display, if you try to change the style using the dropdown at the bottom, it doesnt work, it just reloads the page.

im also having trouble with the whos online which is well known by now

Thanks Dean, Great hack!

[Lizard King]

There is a fix for whois online within the thread. I advise you to check and install that

[Makaveli105]

oh, alright, ill check it out , thanks, has anyone else had the changing styles problem?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Makaveli105

oh, alright, ill check it out , thanks, has anyone else had the changing styles problem?

Yep and unfortunately it can't really be fixed.

Edit:

Hmm actually I have an idea

[Makaveli105]

good luck with it, if it can't be fixed it can't be fixed, still a great hack

[descds]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

There is a fix for whois online within the thread. I advise you to check and install that

thanks that did it

It doesnt re-write the urls to html in who's online though and has the older php relevance. I assume that was intentional ? How would that effect spiders ? if at all ..

Clicking the url to a thread a user is viewing sends them to the

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

instead of

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-on...ng-future.html

I personally think a rewrite of all urls would help avoid confusion here. Users are seeing two types of urls in different situations and i know it is only really cosmetic but it would make it look uniform.

So the last reply and who's online SEO friendly urls would just make it look and feel more intergrated ...

But either way its an outstanding hack and i'm happy to use it.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by descds

thanks that did it

It doesnt re-write the urls to html in who's online though and has the older php relevance. I assume that was intentional ? How would that effect spiders ? if at all ..

Clicking the url to a thread a user is viewing sends them to the

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

instead of

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-on...ng-future.html

I personally think a rewrite of all urls would help avoid confusion here. Users are seeing two types of urls in different situations and i know it is only really cosmetic but it would make it look uniform.

So the last reply and who's online SEO friendly urls would just make it look and feel more intergrated ...

But either way its an outstanding hack and i'm happy to use it.

This is semi-fixed in the new version. I've just thought of a way I can rewrite the URLs. But at the moment all old URLs are 301-redirected to the new URLs, with no negative consequence.

[descds]

Originally Posted by Dean C

This is semi-fixed in the new version. I've just thought of a way I can rewrite the URLs. But at the moment all old URLs are 301-redirected to the new URLs, with no negative consequence.

if you mean that clicking

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347

should redirect and show as

http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-o...ing-future.html

it doesnt

clicking http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 results in seeing http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 ...

Is that what its supposed to do or is something i have here wrong ?

[Dean C]

Yes that's what I meant, but read what I said again. It's fixed in the new version Which I have yet to release!

[descds]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Yes that's what I meant, but read what I said again. It's fixed in the new version Which I have yet to release!

no problems dean

Just wanted to clarify incase i had something wrong this end ..

Keep up the good work ..