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 TrentTech

Version 1.1 works! Thanks Dean!

No problem, please do let me know if you get any problems

[coffeefix]

mod_rewrite is now enabled by my host. Re-installed. Works great now.

[Dean C]

Glad you got it working coffeefix

[Silmarillion]

Good job, Mr.Dean! But why doesn`t work url-rewriting with "Sticky-Threads"? :ermm:

mfg

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Silmarillion

Good job, Mr.Dean! But why doesn`t work url-rewriting with "Sticky-Threads"? :ermm:

mfg

Well spotted, I'll fix this later on providing I get 10minutes Tolkien fan by any chance ?

[Dean C]

<font size="5">Updated to v1.2:</font>

Fixed a bug with stickies showing up as the normal URL.

[Martin64]

Excellent, great job.

[high]* Martin64 licks install
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EDIT: Quick question: Isn't it supposed to create SEO links from the forumhome as well? I only get the SEO links when I've clicked a forum from forumhome and then the threads are SEO linked. With other words, shouldn't it look like this:

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/

[Silmarillion]

Hi Dean,

the mod_rewrite used by nzboards.com is (for the moment) better than yours.
Similar-Threads are also url-rewritten, and the urls shown in the vB-Archive are identical with the postbit-urls.
So "Double-Content" shouldn`t be a problem any longer.
To add this to your mod_rewrite would be nice, man.

Keep up the good work.

Yours, Silmarillion (Tolkien Forever)

[Dean C]

I did try and add functionality for similar threads but didn't test it. It's impossible to have identical rules to the archive because apache would not know which content to deliver

[Silmarillion]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I did try and add functionality for similar threads but didn't test it. It's impossible to have identical rules to the archive because apache would not know which content to deliver

Hi Dean,
for nzboards.com identical rules "mission" (archive) is possible. How come?
Come on, Dean! You`ll make it!

Yours, Silmarillion (Tolkien Forever)