The ol' rewrite

[gmarik]

I would want to have in the place of
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56
something like:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine

In the forum info DB a new field would be added "searchenginefriend" where the board 56 would have medicine written and my Apache would do the rest with mod_rewrite or something of that kind. Is it possible with vB3?

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by gmarik

I would want to have in the place of
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56
something like:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/medicine

In the forum info DB a new field would be added "searchenginefriend" where the board 56 would have medicine written and my Apache would do the rest with mod_rewrite or something of that kind. Is it possible with vB3?

Inefficient to query, but also tedious to rewrite. The queryless route:

RewriteRule /forum/medicine /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56

[gmarik]

Something more automatic? Any idea?

[gmarik]

Originally Posted by filburt1

Inefficient to query, but also tedious to rewrite. The queryless route:

RewriteRule /forum/medicine /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)fid/(.*)$ $forumdisplay.php?f=$2
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^chat forumdisplay.php?f=10 


does not work for "chat" ... any ideas what is wrong with the above examples

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by gmarik

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)fid/(.*)$ $forumdisplay.php?f=$2
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]+?)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/])+?/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^chat forumdisplay.php?f=10 


does not work for "chat" ... any ideas what is wrong with the above examples

I would avoid doing this entirely. You are emulating directories and all of your images (and in my experience, even quick reply in vB3, of all things) gets broken.

Look at the links at my forum to see what I did as per an SEO suggestion of one of my moderators. It preserves the ID so that doesn't result in any queries.

[gmarik]

Filburt, no images are broken!