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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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the problem though is that users copy the url after they post and then paste it into future posts in that site and others. I've seen it happen a number of times.
i got a question. i have got "Google sitemap for the vB Archives. Redirect human and robots." by lierduh installed. will this conflict the URL rewrite extension?
I am running VB3.5.0.
the problem though is that users copy the url after they post and then paste it into future posts in that site and others. I've seen it happen a number of times.
Yes but the old URLs are redirected to the new ones. It'd add a very large overhead to rewrite random thread URLs within threads as a) we don't have access to the thread titles, and b) we'd have to access the thread cache or run a query to get the thread titles for every thread URL in the thread.
i got a question. i have got "Google sitemap for the vB Archives. Redirect human and robots." by lierduh installed. will this conflict the URL rewrite extension?
I am running VB3.5.0.
Yes it will conflict so don't use it for now. I may integrate a sitemap generator with this modification soon
Yes but the old URLs are redirected to the new ones. It'd add a very large overhead to rewrite random thread URLs within threads as a) we don't have access to the thread titles, and b) we'd have to access the thread cache or run a query to get the thread titles for every thread URL in the thread.
This is an un-necessary overhead in my opinion.
Would another query really be that bad? I'm not sure what sort of query caching vbulletin has integrated but it wouldn't be hard at all to cache thread titles.
Would another query really be that bad? I'm not sure what sort of query caching vbulletin has integrated but it wouldn't be hard at all to cache thread titles.
It'd add a big overhead on large sites, and at the moment this modification is extremely scalable and inefficient. I don't want to sacrifice that.
Again, I'm not sure offhand if vB has a threadcache, but even building one would be a very large task and inefficient on large boards
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