Miscellaneous Hacks - Use vBulletin Archive as Sitemap for the Forum

What does this product do?

It uses the existing vBulletin Archive feature to be used for Sitemap for the forum like in vbSEO / TfSEO product.

How to install?

1. Enable the Archive Feature in
   AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Search Engine Friendly Archive
   
   Forum Archive Enabled <Yes>
   Display Simple View of Threads <No> ( Optional but its not good to have different page for the content )
   
2. Add the following line to your .htacces file
   
   

   RewriteRule ^sitemap(.*)$ forums/archive/index.php$1 [QSA,L]

3. Import the product XML
   
4. Change the Footer Template to point the Archive to Sitemap Location.
   
   Find :
   
   

   <if condition="$vboptions['archiveenabled']"><a href="archive/index.php">$vbphrase[archive]</a> -</if>

   Replace with :
   

   <if condition="$vboptions['archiveenabled']"><a href="$vboptions[homeurl]sitemap/">$vbphrase[archive]</a> -</if>

   You may need to add a trailing slash after $vboptions[homeurl] if it does not already end with /
5. Optionally change the Phrase Archive to Sitemap

How to uninstall?

• Remove the content of .htaccess
• Revert the template / phrases
• Just un-install product.

Samples

See the working example on my forum http://www.go4expert.com/

Note: I changed some bburl to homeurls and if you find something wrong in it do let me know and I would be more than happy to help.

[Alfa1]

Something is wrong: It redirects to http://www.mysite.com/index.phpsitemap/
Note that I do have vbSEO sitemap installed. i.e. htaccess does already have these rewrites:

PHP Code:

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L] 

[shabbirbhimani]

If you have vbSEO it already have this feature for you and so you don't need to use this Hack.

[Alfa1]

I dont have the vbSEO product. I only have the vbSEO Google sitemap mod(submits an xml sitemap to sitemaps.org), that is available here on vb.org.

$vboptions[homeurl] gives mysite.com/index.php
When I hardcode this so that my footer shows mysite.com/sitemap/ or to mysite.com/sitemap/index.php then I still get a blank page.

[shabbirbhimani]

in this bburl's are replaced by homeurls and so do let me know your bburls/homeurls.

if you would like that to be changed

Edit the

archive_complete plugin

With the following

$searchArray=array(
'<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['homeurl'] . '/archive/index.php">' . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . '</a>',
$vbulletin->options['homeurl'] . '/archive/index.php',
"<a href=\"" . $vbulletin->options['home'] . '/' . $vbulletin->options['forumhome'] . '.php">' . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . "</a>"
);

$replaceArray=array(
'<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . 'sitemap/">' . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . ' Sitemap</a>',
$vbulletin->options['bburl'] . 'sitemap',
"<a href=\"" . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '">' . $vbulletin->options['hometitle'] . "</a>"
);
$output = str_replace($searchArray, $replaceArray,$output);

[abdobasha2004]

is this better or vbseo sitemap generator?

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by abdobasha2004

is this better or vbseo sitemap generator?

vbseo sitemap generator generates only xml file for robots to be submitted but this one has the sitemap on your forum for users / bots to browse it.

[abdobasha2004]

Server not found


Firefox can't find the server at 100fm6.comsitemap.

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by abdobasha2004

Server not found


Firefox can't find the server at 100fm6.comsitemap.

How do you get to that? If you can tell me more about it I can help you in this.

[Stefanus]

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

How do you get to that? If you can tell me more about it I can help you in this.

Had to do the following edits to get this to link to the sitemap:

Place a "/" between: $vboptions[homeurl] and sitemap/

<if condition="$vboptions['archiveenabled']"><a href="$vboptions[homeurl]/sitemap/">$vbphrase[archive]</a> -</if>

Changed the following in the .htacces file:

RewriteRule ^sitemap(.*)$ "My Forum"/archive/index.php$1 [QSA,L]

On the Sitemap the links stil point to www.mysite.comsitemap and the threads to:
http://www.mysite.comsitemap/f-21.html
http://www.mysite.comsitemap/f-23.html

Any help on this?
Thanks