Miscellaneous Hacks - vBSEO-style friendly urls using vB_Friendly_Url mechanism

This plugin enables the following url scheme:

vbulletin/forum-name/
vbulletin/forum-name/index10.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/members/admin.html

This is close to what vBSEO 3.5.2 generates in its default configuration.
he original goal of this plugin was to allow ditching vBSEO during vB3-vB4 upgrade without suffering a massive link rot.
At this moment, this plugin may be used as a starting point to implement some specific link scheme, but it's hardly useful by itself unless you have that particual vBSEO version; vBSEO 3.6.0 uses different link scheme not compatible with this one.

The plugin hooks to the built-in url generation/parsing mechanism of vB4, overriding vB_Friendly_Url_* classes, unlike vBSEO which does whole-page preg replacements even in vB4. It works within the normal vB data flow, so it's small, simple, and quite fast. It's also very likely to play well along with other plugins like Cerberus.

The links generated by this plugin do not always match those of vBSEO. There are slight differences in handling non-alphanumeric characters, and probably other issues too. However, it should accept all vBSEO thread links, in the worst case (CANON_STRICT) issuing some 301 redirects.
Most of vBSEO configuration options are not supported. In particular, link structure is hard-coded. If you need something unusual, you may use this as a template, but you'll need to tweak it to get urls you want.
Blog urls are not implemented; the site I wrote this for does not use vB blogs.
Calendar urls and anything else not handled by vB_Friendly_Url is not supported.

Configuration resides on the standard Friendly Urls page.
The plugin can work in modes other than FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE. It's not really indented to do it, it's more of a fallback option, but it's implemented. In FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED mode urls look like this:

vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name.html
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name-10.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/member.php/admin.html

The plugin allows custom forum slugs, i.e. replacing forum-name with something else without changing the forum title. It's not pretty, but it works.

Sample .htaccess rules for FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE:

RewriteBase /url/path/to/vbulletin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# Use these two only if you have friendlyurl_acceptvb4 enabled
RewriteRule ^threads/(.*) showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*) forumdisplay.php [L]

RewriteRule ^members/([^/]+).html$ member.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/index\d*.html$ forumdisplay.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^/]+.html$ showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/?$ forumdisplay.php [L]

Adjust ^members/ to match your friendlyurl_memberdir if necessary.

Tested on vB 4.0.3 PL8 and vB 4.2.0. Should work on most 4.x.x versions.
Feel free to post bug reports, suggestions etc. in this thread.

[Scalemotorcars]

My brain is melting trying to figure this out. Below is an old vbseo link. Will this mod be able to duplicate it.

http://www.anysite.com/forum/horse-drawn-vehicles/51378-civil-war-rucker-ambulance.html

[shifaguy]

Is it possible to change
"vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145.html"
to
"vbulletin/showthread.php/145-thread-title.html"
Just wanted to put that number before the title of thread, just like vbseo.

[behcet]

how to remove forum-name ?

PHP Code:

vbulletin/thread-title-145.html 


[repute]

Since I installed the mod everything is working fine but I cannot merge topics anymore I get the following message:

Please check that the URL includes a valid threadid, "t=xxx" or postid, "p=xxx" (where xxx is a number), and is not a redirect.

How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Matt

[SlashOwnsU]

This plugin is a lifesaver ! Infinite thanks !

One problem persists though.
We have forum names with french accents, which generates forum page urls of the form
www.domain.com/forum/????/

I'm fine with that even though vbseo would remove these accents.
However, the plugin cannot find the forum assiciated with these urls (vbulletin error message).
Same if I manually type www.domain.com/forum/aeoi/

Any idea on how to fix this ?

[caciocode]

Has anyone found a way to get rid of the .html at the end? Maybe have the post id come first.

Great plugin!

[thetechgenius]

I would like to use this mod on a windows server 2008R2, but on windows servers the .htaccess is not used, Windows based servers use web.config, and its completely different code/rules. Do you have the htaccess converted code for web.config?

[mehedimw]

Originally Posted by sodasusu

i will try thx

after install this plugin my web not opening please help me
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=295358