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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kutgw Dean

[futuregizmo]

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-on...ng-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

[futuregizmo]

another question, which sitemap generator hack can we use for this one? apparently the vbseo google/yahoo sitemap generator doesn't work for this and im wondering which one is compatible for this vb url rewrite hack?

[descds]

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-on...ng-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

No i tried this and moving with the SEO url works fine. I moved a thread from one forum to another and back again without any complications ...

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-on...ng-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

im not sure if this has been brought up before, but when moving posts to an existing thread, using the URL rewritten by this hack results to an error.

in the URL examples above, vBulletin would ask for the URL of the thread to which the posts would be moved and if you put http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/t347-o...ing-future.html rather than http://www.talkdvd.net/forum/showthread.php?t=347 then you'll get an error.

Yes I'm aware of this.

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

another question, which sitemap generator hack can we use for this one? apparently the vbseo google/yahoo sitemap generator doesn't work for this and im wondering which one is compatible for this vb url rewrite hack?

I have no idea at all. As said earlier in the thread, on many occasions I do not plan to support any third-party addons, as I don't have the time

[futuregizmo]

thanks Dean for the reply on the sitemap generator, i'll just go find out which ones are compatible with your hack.

descds, im referring to moving posts from one thread to another, not moving threads from one forum to another.

[descds]

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

thanks Dean for the reply on the sitemap generator, i'll just go find out which ones are compatible with your hack.

descds, im referring to moving posts from one thread to another, not moving threads from one forum to another.

Apologies, misread that

[vau7]

But why do i get these permission - errors?
If i deactivate this plugins no mor 403 - Errors appear.
Its just in some Threads (perhaps beacause of Umlauts?).
In this Threads all Images (Buttons, ect...) wont be loaded and you cant answer or rate a Thread...

[jlaine]

Originally Posted by Dean C

1) I'm not aware of any bugs with the paging system. If anyone could show me a live example I'll look into it.

2) Please read earlier in the thread for the reason why I am not going to rewrite the lastpost URL.

I believe what he's saying (and I'm experiencing it also) - is that if you have a multiple page thread it doesn't seem to keep track of the proper amount of pages anymore.

IE: there is a thread with 63 replies on it on my forum right now - having 10 replies per page (if you are going by forum default) should net 7 pages - the forumdisplay only shows 5 total, and when you click on page 5 and load the thread the other 2 pages are visible then at the top of the thread.

I swear you discussed this earlier though - but I may have been reading something else.

Oddly enough though - my users are having no issues changing styles via the quick change box...

[Dean C]

Ah I see what you mean now jlaine - I'll have a think