vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! Get your posts listed @ google

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[high]HOW GOOD DOES THIS HACK WORK??? >>> [/high]Over 29,000 pages spidered since January 1st!!!!!!! Visit http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+SkuZZy+Xenon to see all the pages this script has helped get spidered into google!

Sub-Forums have been added!

Final Version Released - February 10th

I added sub-forums in this final version, one of the most requested features to be added... but, sad to say... this will be the final version. I never got a chance to add some of the cool features I said, but I feel this archive has served it's purpose and hopefully will continue to do so for all the die hard users who stick with vb 2.2.9. I decided to make this the final version because vb3 is coming out soon and I think this archive is the best archive currently out. Sure, there are more flashy ones, but this one gets the job done and gets results. Hopefully this hack will live on for a while.
Edit by Xenon: Whenever there is a problem, i'll take a look at it, and perhaps add a feature or two

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_Rewrite. If you don't have mod_Rewrite, you can't use the scripts (sorry).

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demos

To view a demo of this script, visit some of the "live" demos at the following sites:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archives
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/
http://www.truecountry.com/forums/history/
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/index.php
http://www.pimprig.com/forums/archive/
http://www.jokersrewards.com/forum/history/
http://board.midibuddy.net/archive2/
http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/forums/archive/
http://www.macfora.com/forums/archive/
http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/
http://www.codewebs.com/forums/archive/
http://www.lcdmod.com/forums/archive/
http://www.source-forums.org/vB/archive/
http://www.subduck.com/history/
http://www.thesistersthree.com/archive/
http://www.a51forums.com/archive/
http://www.yes-its-free.com/easyarchive/
http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive
http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/archive/
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/
http://www.gamesites200.com/archive/
http://www.allthingsmoto.com/archive
http://www.2spoemas.com/foros/archive/
http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 2.x
mod_mime installed
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - You will NEED mod_mime to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Credits

Biggest credit goes to Xenon who originally coded the scripts. He is the man! Also thanks to everyone who tested it out for me and kept bugging me about releasing it (when I was too lazy to).

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all we ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "_readme.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[cnczone]

Nobody knows what this means??-

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking
in /home/cnczone/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

[Xenon]

nope sorry....

[cnczone]

So where should I go for help? Here is a link of what is going on-
http://www.cnczone.com/archive/forum/64-1.html?

Should I take it up with my hosting provider?

[Guidster]

Yesterday at 05:56 PM cnczone said this in Post #511
Nobody knows what this means??-

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking
in /home/cnczone/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

What is the offending lines of code? Other than your errors, the archive appears to be working fine. Could these be errors from included php code? Post the lines that created the errors as they may shed more light.

[cnczone]

The errors are different lines, their not the same ones. The hack has been working perfect for awhile than all of a sudden I get these warnings. Could my host have changed somthing on the servers or did I change a read write on a file?

[Xenon]

hmm i don't know but i remember i got some errors on a special host where an old site of me was located, which occured in a warning if gzip was enabled.

so have you tried to use a complete unmodificated version of our hack?
if yes and the error occurs, it's most likely a hostissu

[Infopro]

A few things I'd like to see added to this, or to the instructions anyway.
1) A few small details on how to make the archive look similar to your forums. I see many have done this. None have spoken up to help others. ie: header and footer
(I'm still tweaking mine so I can't comment on the best way to do this)

2) your on your archive main page ok, you click a forum. I want to center the "Pages: XXXXX" link. I can center Pages:1 ok, but 2345678 whatever, go back to the left side. I think across the top center for page links would be better.

3) Your on a page of threads, or thread itself, it would be great to have a few more links up top, like, "Archive Home" or whatever, like the navbar on the actual forums.

I understand this is for google, but as someone else posted, some users are going to like using this if they are on dialup or just want to surf thru a bit faster.

Thanks for this, I think it's great.
It just needs a few more tweaks to be perfect IMHO.
Great job.

Here's link to add if you want.
(and for google to drop by our Joint after they hit this thread next dance LOL)

http://infoprosjoint.net/ij5/archive/

[Aurore]

What about the same hack for vb3!?
The one in vb3 does not work on certain site because PHP is compiled in CGI.

The one you made worked fine with vb 2.9

[S.Shady]

06-16-03 at 12:56 PM cnczone said this in Post #511
Nobody knows what this means??-

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking
in /home/cnczone/public_html/archive/index.php on line 103

what you need to do is go into every script index.php, forum, thread and find

include "$archiveurl/header.php";

and 

include "$archiveurl/footer.php";

and make them

include "/home/cnczone/public_html/archive/header.php";

and 

include "/home/cnczone/public_html/archive/footer.php";

i know it seams crazy but thats what i had to do to mine for that error to go away.

[Xenon]

@Infopro: Neither Skuzzy or myself are adding Addons to this hack anymore...

@Aurore: hmm, normally it should work with vb3 also, just rename the functions into the new vb3 function equivalents, but maybe i'll port it over myself when i find the time