Spider Friendly URL's with IIS.

This is borrowed heavily from fastforwards spider friendly hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=spider.

For those of you using IIS, you'll find that mod_rewrite and .htaccess are not options for you. Well, the same functionality is available for IIS.

First, you'll need to install ISAPI_rewrite from http://www.isapirewrite.com/ (there's a free version). If you don't administer the server, you'll need to ask the admin to install.

After the rewrite dll is installed, it's a piece of cake from there by following the instructions attached.

Additionally, I installed the following hack so that I can have non members (including search engines) view the forums in the friendly fashion, and all members

see the true links. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=styles

I'll do what I can to support this, but I am sure a lot of folks here can add to this or modify it to be even better. It has been working great for me. A good site to view is fastforwards site at http://dbforums.com/

[AWS]

I'll be giving this a whirl on my devel box and if it works as well as fastforwards I will migrate to IIS.

[cobradude]

Great, let me know how it goes.

[cobradude]

Anyone have any feedback on this?

[AWS]

I haven't had the time to get this installed. I am in the middle of moving my servers to a new T3 that I just had installed.

I will get this up as soon as the move is done.

[nuno]

Working fine with IIS6.0.

[cobradude]

Thanks guys.

[cobradude]

Google has been crawling deeply off and on all day long on the two sites I did this to (never crawled passed the index before).....rewriting is cool!

[cobradude]

Just included some of the enhancements for multiple page threads and forums found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...137#post348137

For me, I added the following two rules for isapirewrite to accommodate the multiple pages...

RewriteRule /t(\d+)--(\d+)\.html$ /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1&pagenumber=$3 [I]
RewriteRule /f(\d+)-(\d+)\.html$ /forums/forumdisplay.php\?forumid=$1&daysprune=1000&sortor der=&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=25&pagenumber=$2 [I]

[cobradude]

Well, here's my current list of rules which also take into account all of the mods in the link above (see my previous post). It seems like every time I turn around there's more rules I must add because someone reports a broken link or something (especially with the modifications for multiple pages, etc), but everything is pretty well sorted, and google has been giving a lot of love to both of my sites over the last couple weeks. Anyone else having success with this?

RewriteRule /f(\d+)/s /forums/forumdisplay.php\?forumid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule /t(\d+)/s\.html /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule /s /forums/index.php
RewriteRule /f(\d+)/forumdisplay.php\?=s&forumid=(\d+) /index.php [L]
RewriteRule /t\d+/(forumdisplay.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /t\d+/(attachments.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /f\d+/(showthread.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /f\d+/(forumdisplay.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /f\d+/(attachments.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /f\d+/(index.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]

RewriteRule /forumdisplay.php\?=s&forumid=(\d+) /index.php
RewriteRule /(forumdisplay.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(attachments.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(showthread.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(forumdisplay.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(attachments.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(newthread.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(newreply.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(memberlist.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /(search.php.*) /forums/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /f(\d+)\.html /forums/forumdisplay.php\?forumid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule /t(\d+)\.html /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule /forum.html /forums/index.php [L]

RewriteRule /archive.html /archive.php [L]


RewriteRule /t(\d+)--(\d+)\.html$ /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1&pagenumber=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /t(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\.html$ /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1&pagenumber=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /f(\d+)-(\d+)\.html$ /forums/forumdisplay.php\?forumid=$1&daysprune=1000&sortor der=&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=25&pagenumber=$2 [L]

RewriteRule /forums/t(\d+)-(\d+)&pagenumber=(\d+) /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1&pagenumber=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /forums/f(\d+)&pagenumber=(\d+) /forums/forumdisplay.php\?forumid=$1&pagenumber=$2 [L]


RewriteRule /forums/t(\d+)-(\d+)--(\w*)-&pagenumber=(\d+) /forums/showthread.php\?threadid=$1&highlight=$3&pagenumbe r=$4 [L]