Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[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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[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Aftermath

Bah could you make this is a feature for the next version please, eh Dean?

I have no plans to do it. Sorry.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by kafi

are we testing this or not????

Sorry, I've just driven home from uni. I sent you an email.

[Snake]

OK the hack is working fine for forum title's but not thread titles. Have a look here - www.metalgearforum.net.

Any idea?

[kafi]

Originally Posted by Aftermath

OK the hack is working fine for forum title's but not thread titles. Have a look here - www.metalgearforum.net.

Any idea?

Thread are not rewritten here:

- from forumhome (but then if you follow certain number of page it is rewritten)
- from search result
- from my latests threads (but ok this is separate hack)

[SuperFly]

anyone know what to change so instead of
member.php?u=8
it would be like
member=SuperFly.html

Or something like it?

[Snake]

Bah I'm not really impressed about this hack so I have just uninstalled it. I'm going to save up money and purchase vBSEO soon.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by SuperFly

anyone know what to change so instead of
member.php?u=8
it would be like
member=SuperFly.html

Or something like it?

Sorry I have no plans to rewrite member profiles, as a) they are not enabled to spiders by default, and b) what value is it, to you, to show a users information to a search engine?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Aftermath

Bah I'm not really impressed about this hack so I have just uninstalled it. I'm going to save up money and purchase vBSEO soon.

Good for you It's beta, if you don't want bugs, don't install a beta.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Hey dean, no worries, good product you got.

[Dean C]

Just need to find a reliable, cross-platform way of translating these accented characters now It works for german, french by the looks of it. But not slovakian.