Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[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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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[Dean C]

Please do not change the copyright Shuvo. Thanks

[Mudvayne]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Please do not change the copyright Shuvo. Thanks

I wont unless u give permission to modify ur original copyright.. here is my idea.. if u don wanna i wont change

PHP Code:

Search Engine Optimized By  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deanclatworthy.com/">DC Seo&nbsp; ? Dean   Clatworthy</a> 


btw its just an idea.. & sorry my english.. i dont wanna brk any copyright law.. thts y i ask ur permission newayz.. waiting for ur reply..

[cd1986]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Yes it will conflict so don't use it for now. I may integrate a sitemap generator with this modification soon

Integrated sitemap generator would be great! Using the vBSEO sitemap version at the moment, but obviously it doesn't pick up the urls created using this plugin.

[Mudvayne]

?????????
it conflict with vbseo sitemap generator?

[Dean C]

Shuvo, I won't be changing the copyright sorry. cd1986, do not submit a sitemap with vBseo's if the URLs are conflicting, as you'll be submitting URLs which will be redirected soon.

[cd1986]

Sorry, i meant that it just picks up the normal (unchanged) urls - it doesn't conflict as such, the sitemap is generated as though there was no url re-write plugin.

[Rick Sample]

Hi dean, I'm having issues with the install. After the install on 3.5.2, when clicking on any forum, any post, any member, etc it is displaying a page cannot be displayed message.
I also know that our host has mod rewright on because we used to run OScommerce as our shopping car system. They released a hack on their site to re wright URLS and this is what we had to put in our .htaccess file (This is no longer their since we moved to a better software):

PHP Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-(.*).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-(.*).html$ popup_image.php?pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t-(.*).html$ articles.php?tPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-a-(.*).html$ article_info.php?articles_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-(.*).html$ product_reviews.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-(.*).html$ product_reviews_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-(.*).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} 


This worked with OScommerce, so I would imagine if our host didn't have mod rewright installed, OScommerce wouldn't have worked. Do you have any solutions?

THanks!

[Dean C]

Hey Rick, I'm not sure why it would give you a 404 message if mod_rewrite is enabled. Put this is in a .htaccess file in your forums directory and go to http://www.muscle-mustangs.com/forums/deantest.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^deantest\.html$ showthread.php?t=6191 [L]

It should load t=6191

[Rick Sample]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Hey Rick, I'm not sure why it would give you a 404 message if mod_rewrite is enabled. Put this is in a .htaccess file in your forums directory and go to http://www.muscle-mustangs.com/forums/deantest.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^deantest\.html$ showthread.php?t=6191 [L]

It should load t=6191

Thanks Dean that worked like a charm and I installed the mod just fine! The reason I couldn't get the hack to work before was because I was putting the .htaccess in my root directory instead of the forum directory!


Thanks again for the hard work!

[Rick Sample]

I do have two more questions. When you click on the thread in the last post column, it will still take you to the showthread.php version.

Also when viewing whos online, it's showing the guest as "viewing forum" or "viewing thread" it doesn't give the exact thread or location with link. Is their an easy fix to this?

THanks Again!