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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[redspider]

if I click from main page to a forum section this hack work but if I click from main page to any threat dont work .

how can I fix this?

[Michael2]

Awesome, seems to work perfectly, now to see if it's effective! Thanks!

[GamerJunk.net]

I had the VB SEO installed and it gave me problems. This one is working nicely, thanks

[Afrika]

I try to include the vbadvanced portal in the xml file like this:

PHP Code:

  OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index' 


but the link in the template is:

PHP Code:

               <td class="<if condition="$show['lastpost']">alt1<else />alt2</if>"><span class="smallfont">
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$thread[forumid]">$thread[forumtitle]</a>
</span></td>
                        </if> 


I dont fint out where the $thread[forumtitle] is generated for the adv_portal_latesttopicbits.

[Snake]

Originally Posted by RasMasta

I had the VB SEO installed and it gave me problems. This one is working nicely, thanks

You've got to be kidding me...

[jdingman]

I found that a little suspicious as well. VBSeo is far better than any free application, in my opinion.

I'm still wondering, is there an easy way to rewrite user's pages so everything is rewritten, not just forums and threads?

Also, is there anyway to rewrite it so when someone goes to showthread.php or whatever, that it redirects to the proper mod_Rewritten page? I don't want anyone being able to go to a regular thread, just the rewritten threads.

[Afrika]

is it also possible to rewrite the forums too?
I mean the Links in the navigation forumdisplay & page=xx

[GamerJunk.net]

I have 20 replies before page splits, yet this hack forces my showthread to be 10, so it results in my forumdisplay to have the page numbers based on 20 replies and inside the thread there is 4 pages, when my thread should only be 2.

[the_sisko]

We stress tested the hack on our beta board and found one strange thing. If you name the a thread like this: "p2p macht das Forum kaputt, hehe" you will get "http://************/t19-p2p-macht-das-forum-kaputt-hehe.html"
You will always get to the second page off this thread. Also the pagenav for page shows: "http://******/t19-p-p2p-macht-das-forum-kaputt-hehe.html" you will get to the second page. I believe the first page must have a "p1" instead of only a "p".

[vau7]

Yeah, i habe got ome or two Threads, where i always getting started at the second site.