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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
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Dean, didnt work at all im afraid, getting 500 server errors.
Ok I'm afraid I have to go home now. Here's a quickfix (assuming you are having the same problem as kafi). Open up the .htaccess file and find this line:
Dean;
i have changed your plugin lil bit and i am using now.
the difference is showthread URLs, i dont like the idea of putting titles to URLs; instead, i am using it as /threadXYZ.html
in this upcoming new version, will you give us opportunity to set the urls?
(title.html or threadX.html)
Dean;
i have changed your plugin lil bit and i am using now.
the difference is showthread URLs, i dont like the idea of putting titles to URLs; instead, i am using it as /threadXYZ.html
in this upcoming new version, will you give us opportunity to set the urls?
(title.html or threadX.html)
The whole idea is to get keyword relevance in your URLs. Having it appear just as a HTML file would have very little advantage to you. So to answer your question, no.
The only configurable option in the new version will be whether to use t1-title.html or thread1-title.html
Couldnt get it to work either, I've sent you the .htaccess I was using. gone back to using the release for now.
Adam
I've had this problem with 3/4 of my testers now. I managed to fix it on one site but not the other two. I'll have to get stuck into the apache documentation as noticably you are using Apache1, and so is he
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