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vRewrite - SEOed URLs for vBulletin · **Released**: 01-04-2006

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:

Code:

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

LICryptkeeper · #**942** 04-07-2006, 01:48 AM

AGH! Installed it and was all happy. then I could not go to page 2 of any thread (or more) I applied the fix above, then started looking at the htaccess to see if I could patch it myself. last straw was when I clicked on "new posts" and was greeted by a "page cannot be found" the url had a / at the end (new-post.html/) when i deleted it, the page displayed but with extra content on the top. (and the tables were messed up.)

Alex_ · #**943** 04-07-2006, 08:48 AM

Sorry if this was asked before... what do I have to do to enable rewriting in my vbadvanced portal? I want to rewrite links in the news and latest thread modules...

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Cause of very long thread names the urls grow bigger and bigger... that might be good for SE but not for humans.
I think I will limit the name length to 5-10 chars or so... perhaps you want to make it a feature

Renada · #**944** 04-07-2006, 10:57 AM

Hi,

I have AmyKhar's "Expanded Get New Posts" hack installed and this seems to cause a problem with the vRewrite.

It appears to work for minutes and hours but if you click "4 days" it looks like this. (see attachment)

Any ideas?

Regards
Renada

Bhuwan · #**945** 04-07-2006, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renada

Hi,

I have AmyKhar's "Expanded Get New Posts" hack installed and this seems to cause a problem with the vRewrite.

It appears to work for minutes and hours but if you click "4 days" it looks like this. (see attachment)

Any ideas?

Regards
Renada

oops.
Load up your global_complete hook OR load up the complete XML file and
search for

Code:

echo($fname . '<br>');

and delete it

Bhuwan · #**946** 04-07-2006, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex_

Sorry if this was asked before... what do I have to do to enable rewriting in my vbadvanced portal? I want to rewrite links in the news and latest thread modules...

---
Cause of very long thread names the urls grow bigger and bigger... that might be good for SE but not for humans.
I think I will limit the name length to 5-10 chars or so... perhaps you want to make it a feature

Thread name limitation can be very easily applied, espeically since you could use vBulletin's build-in functionality.

Bhuwan · #**947** 04-07-2006, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LICryptkeeper

AGH! Installed it and was all happy. then I could not go to page 2 of any thread (or more) I applied the fix above, then started looking at the htaccess to see if I could patch it myself. last straw was when I clicked on "new posts" and was greeted by a "page cannot be found" the url had a / at the end (new-post.html/) when i deleted it, the page displayed but with extra content on the top. (and the tables were messed up.)

Can you post your setttings? (/admincp/options.php -> vRewrite) take a screen shot ...

Bhuwan · #**948** 04-07-2006, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LICryptkeeper

AGH! Installed it and was all happy. then I could not go to page 2 of any thread (or more) I applied the fix above, then started looking at the htaccess to see if I could patch it myself. last straw was when I clicked on "new posts" and was greeted by a "page cannot be found" the url had a / at the end (new-post.html/) when i deleted it, the page displayed but with extra content on the top. (and the tables were messed up.)

Trythe new htaccess generator (0.2) to create the correct htaccess file based on settings you've set.

Renada · #**949** 04-07-2006, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bhuwan

oops.
Load up your global_complete hook OR load up the complete XML file and
search for

Code:

echo($fname . '<br>');

and delete it

Hi Bhuwan,

That cured the forums showing up in a list top left but now the only thing that works is "new posts today".

Also I have this hack installed: Super Display Suite but when clicking on a name that uses this hack the script displays in the URL

Code:

http://thinkstop.com/community2/forums/u--var-scolorff6699-var-a_speed120-var-shimmercountshimmercount1-evalvar-shimmerspeed-shimmercount-a_speed-evalvar-shimmercolor-shimmercount-scolor-documentwrite-freddie-35.html

This happens to all names except mine (me being user 1)

Regards,
Renada

Bhuwan · #**950** 04-07-2006, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renada

Hi Bhuwan,

That cured the forums showing up in a list top left but now the only thing that works is "new posts today".

Also I have this hack installed: Super Display Suite but when clicking on a name that uses this hack the script displays in the URL

Code:

http://thinkstop.com/community2/forums/u--var-scolorff6699-var-a_speed120-var-shimmercountshimmercount1-evalvar-shimmerspeed-shimmercount-a_speed-evalvar-shimmercolor-shimmercount-scolor-documentwrite-freddie-35.html

This happens to all names except mine (me being user 1)

Regards,
Renada

didn't you already report this as a bug? :-) ...nevertheless, I will ONLY make tvRewrite compatable with other HACKS once i am certain that 1.5 is stable....then we'll addcompatabilit

LICryptkeeper · #**951** 04-07-2006, 01:29 PM

I get this when i perform searches (new posts) this happens even when I turn OFF "rewrite searches" in admincp. I'll try the suggestion you gave renada

ALL my settings are default in admincp exept for "on" and "searches off"

also I noteced, inside forums, it's rewritten with a / at the end (t-forumname-01.html/)

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