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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[vau7]

Originally Posted by 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...

What about this? No Comment for this failure? My fault?

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by Dean C

It's the same with any additional get parameters applied to the URL. They cannot be parsed using mod_rewrite. I think I may have a way around this, but i'm a little overloaded with work right now, so won't do for a little while

No worries mate, I'll fix it for CCde.

[FindYourHost]

I've searched this thread but couldn't see it, I've found a small bug.

If you have any forums acting as a link, any forums listed after the link are displayed as .php remove the link and all the others turn to .html.

Also, index.php doesn't act as index.html

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by vau7

What about this? No Comment for this failure? My fault?

I've said this on several occasions, do not run this modification on a foreign board yet. I have no idea what the problem is offhand. I'm still working on adding a few features and bug fixes. Hopefully I'll find some time this weekend to send a few people the private beta.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by FindYourHost

I've searched this thread but couldn't see it, I've found a small bug.

If you have any forums acting as a link, any forums listed after the link are displayed as .php remove the link and all the others turn to .html.

Also, index.php doesn't act as index.html

Yep this is fixed in the new version that will be out shortly

[vau7]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I've said this on several occasions, do not run this modification on a foreign board yet. I have no idea what the problem is offhand. I'm still working on adding a few features and bug fixes. Hopefully I'll find some time this weekend to send a few people the private beta.

Ahhrrm, you think its because of the umlauts. But there are now some titels having quote-signs ( " or ' ) and no umlauts in it, where the Problem is appearing.
Perhaps it'll help you to figure it out.

[Snake]

Can we have URLs like forumtitle.html instead of f1-forumtitle.html I wonder?

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by Aftermath

Can we have URLs like forumtitle.html instead of f1-forumtitle.html I wonder?

The number is used to get the correct forum. Otherwise, you'd have to search your forum names and find a precise match. Then pull the number and show it. If you have dupe forum names, you have a problem.

[Dean C]

Ok the latest version is ready. I would like 2 testers who run foreign boards, and two who run english boards. Your board should have over 10,000 posts. If you want to help me test this out, then please email me via my website here.

[TruthElixirX]

While I have no live board to test it on or a board with 10,000 posts I am very grateful for this soon to be release product. Thank you very much.