vRewrite - SEOed URLs for vBulletin

About

vRewrite is an advance but simple system to rewrite vB's URLs. The rewrite system uses preg_match_all and str_replace to rewrite the URLs. It will rewrite any URLs that are dynamic ex: showthread.php?t= to /the-forum/title-of-the-forum-id.html. Why? SEs (Search Engines) rate results based on filename. Not only that, but most SEs give a "boost" to static URLs (what we do here) versus dynamic URLs. vRewrite accomplishes both of this, for all URLs that a search engine (or a guest) will see.

Installation

Please download vRewrite.zip and read install.html for more information on how to install it.

Requirements

vRewrite assumes that you are using Apache with the mod_rewrite module enabled, and running vBulletin 3.5.x. However, if you ask for support here on IIS' module or on vBulletin 3.0.x - I will be more then happy to assist you.

Contributions

I would like to thank Chroder and Cole for assisting me release vRewrite. I could not have released it if it wasn't for them.

I would like to thank the following people/boards for helping beta test vRewrite and making it a better product.

Gaming Ultimate, BP Gaming, NBS Designz Cyclez, Hosting-Talk and Forum University.

Copyright

I've spent many hours working and perfecting vRewrite. The only thing I ask you to do is if you use it, please keep the link back. If you wish to put it in your style instead, simply remove or comment out that line. However, if you use vRewrite you MUST link back. That is the only thing I ask.

Known Issues

There are no known issues with the latest release (1.0).

Support / Issues

If you have any problems or discover a bug please post here in this thread. I have also included my email in the install.html email for one-on-one support. The only thing I ask you is please do not post this email address publicly - it is my personal email.

Changelog

1.5 Release - vRewrite 1.5 has become stable, and all users under 1.5 RC3 and 1.0 need to upgrade. Support for 1.0 will no longer be offered, and you will be told simply to upgrade. Please continue to keep all bug and feature suggestions on the bug tracker at:

http://www.techhelpforum.com/vrewrite

1.1 Release - Several bug fixes, and a few new features. Details here.

03/26/06 - Updated the thread to reflect vRewrite 1.5 Beta links. vRewrite files has NOT changed.

03/11/06 - Updated the thread to take advantage of vB.org's new prefix feature. vRewrite itself has NOT changed.

1.0 Release (02/19/06) - I have released the much awaited 1.0. This is the first stable release of vRewrite. All users now should be safe installing vRewrite. For more information, and how to upgrade, please see here.

1.0 Preview (01/12/06) - I have released a preview version of 1.0. This is the final version before 1.0 is considered stable. I believe everything should work in this new preview, but one bug (see known issues). Please see here for more information and how to upgrade.

01/05/06 - Updated ZIP to include a fix for boards running a table prefix. You do not need to upgrade unless you previously had SQL errors. You can upgrade by importing the product and choose "Allow Overwrite".

Donations

Any donations are very much appreciated! I do this out of my free time and work many hours on it - all for free. Anything to help is always very welcomed

If you use vRewrite, please click Install. This helps you keep track of additional upgrades and shows to me that you care about vRewrite


You may not post vRewrite ZIP or any files contained in the ZIP on any website. You may not also post any support requests/give support on any website other then this one, without my permission. If you do so, you will get a DMCA for copyright infringement. I do not want this spread to pirated users. Please stop piracy and do not share the source outside of this thread and vB.org/com. Thanks.

Support will only be obtained at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=182

[Bhuwan]

RC2 will be delayed by tomorrow morning, as I want to fix a bug that Tyler (Immortal) mentioned to me and some various "cosmetic" errors Jlaine reported.
Fruthermore, I am going for ice cream so i wont get started on fixes until later tonight !

By the way, everyone should thank Jlaine , as Jlaine reported MANY bugs/fixes to Tyler and myself. Furthermore, Jlaine risked running this hack on their LIVE board (which is very big) which helped us dramatically!

Many people have helped throughout the development of this hack but I personally want to thank Jlaine for their time

[DementedMindz]

Jlaine thank you for helpin...

the one that im tryin to find right now im not to sure of i wanted to do it for the categorys this way they were rewritten here is the page it brings you too /arcade.php?categoryid=-1 also on the main arcade page i wanted to do it for when you click high score it would bring you to a page like this /arcade.php?do=scores&gameid=100

[Immortal]

I'll try and come up with somethin' shortly

[high]* Immortal needs to finish this thing first[/high]

Sorry.

[DementedMindz]

hey thats no problem you helped me out alot thanks so much... this just keeps getting better and better

another one i found

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]do=lboard">[ $vbphrase[leader_board] ]</a>

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

I run this great on vBgallery 1.01 (http://www.PlanetSRK.com/forums/gallery)

here is the headinclude code you need to use:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'index' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_index' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_upload' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'showimage' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_search' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_newreply' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_moderate' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_misc'  AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'gallery_managecats' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'editimage' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'ecard' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'displayimages' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'browseimages'">
<base href="$vboptions[bburl]/" />
</if>

will this work with PhotoPost vBGallery v1.0.2 also where does this code excatly go?

[CrazyVLS]

Originally Posted by Immortal

Make sure you changed the RewriteBase as described in the note

This is my RewriteBase in .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/t-(.*)-(.*)/go=(.*) showthread.php?t=$3&goto=$4&is_vrewrite=yes[L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/p-(.*)-(.*).html showthread.php?p=$3&is_vrewrite=yes[L]
RewriteRule ^f-(.*)-(.*)-page(.*).html forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$3&order=desc&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^f-(.*)-(.*).html/page(.*)daysprune(.*)-order(.*)-sort(.*) forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$3daysprune=$4&order=$5&sort=$6&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^f-(.*)-(.*).html/daysprune(.*)-order(.*)-sort(.*) forumdisplay.php?f=$2&daysprune=$3&order=$4&sort=$5&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^f-(.*)-(.*).html forumdisplay.php?f=$2&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^u-(.*)-(.*).html member.php?u=$2&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.*)-newpost.html showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/t-(.*)-(.*)-page(.*).html showthread.php?t=$3&page=$4&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/t-(.*)-(.*).html showthread.php?t=$3&is_vrewrite=yes [L]
RewriteRule ^markread.html forumdisplay.php?do=markread [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/p-(.*)-(.*).html#(.*) showthread.php?p=$3#post$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^print-(.*)-(.*).html printthread.php?t=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^sendtofriend-(.*)-(.*).html sendmessage.php?do=sendtofriend&t=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^search-(.*).html search.php?do=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.*)/newthread.php newthread.php?do=newthread&f=$2[L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/newpostnoquote-(.*).php newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=$2[L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/newpost-(.*).php newreply.php?do=newreply&p=$2[L]
RewriteRule ^p-(.*).html showpost.php?p=$1&postcount=$1 [L]

Whats wrong ? Please help me to fix that :
http://www.angelsbabe.net/rewrite/as...n-pics-87.html

Not Found
The requested URL /rewrite/asian-pictures/t-maiko-kazano-fmm-scan-pics-87.html was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.angelsbabe.net Port 80

Still not working !

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

will this work with PhotoPost vBGallery v1.0.2 also where does this code excatly go?

You would want to use that in headerinclude. I'll work on your v3 code tomorrow

Originally Posted by CrazyVLS

This is my RewriteBase in .htaccess :

And did you read install.html or searched the thread as I told you to?

Originally Posted by install.html

Note: If you run your vB on a directory from a subdomain or root ex: http:///www.yoursite.com/forum or http://subdomain.site.com/forum you will need to open up the .htacess file and change Rewrite Base / to Rewrite Base /yourdir

[jdingman]

It this problem related to vRewrite at all?

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT threadid, title FROM vb_thread WHERE visible = 1 AND lastpost <

I'm getting that error on my site sometimes now...

Additionally, when I go to a page that doesn't actually exist and it returns a 'no thread specified', how can I make that error page return a 404 so search engines know it doesn't exist anymore?

[DementedMindz]

Immortal thanks again im going to look in there in a min... im still doing other links basiclly that i can figure out

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by jdingman

It this problem related to vRewrite at all?



I'm getting that error on my site sometimes now...

Hm, first I heard of it. What happens if you disable it, do you still get the error?

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

Immortal thanks again im going to look in there in a min... im still doing other links basiclly that i can figure out

No problem. Just poke me tomorrow if I don't get it by then