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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Jan 25th, 2005

anyone providing support for this mod ? it seems the are many un answred questions.
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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Jan 26th, 2005

One minor addon I'd still like,i've got a category for "tutorials" I want just that section to use tutorial[tid]-<name>-<name> instead of thread[tid]-name-name any ideas?

Also,

Did anyone fix the problem of the nav bar (thread tree) following ted s' style of links instead of just the default.

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 10th, 2005

I am quite a newbie to vB, but this is mod is very sweet,

I rember that I read somewhere it better to use "_" for spaces than spaces itself, but cant find it anymore

can anyone say something to this ?

also the archives are not rewritten, its probablly not needed at, all just would be nice to know

and while I am at the archive issue, may its only a setting I did wrong, my arviches neve shows the links clickable, it this a special mod I need therefor or only a setting

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 12th, 2005

I am getting duplicate forum titles also. How did you resolve this issue?

You can see the results here:www.okctalk.com other than that it seems to be working great.

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by infiniterb

Got a problem. The rewite works fine, except that I'm seeing duplicate forum names. Any idea what I need to edit to fix this?

www.clantt.com/vb/ is the url in question.

Thanks in advance. Nice work.

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Re: [Revised] FIXED

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Feb 12th, 2005

I realized a bug, in this thingie, just stupid guys like me may trap into this but just wanted to correct for the guys with less html knowledge:

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Originally Posted by KeithMcL

Step 2 - Template Edits
This step covers all the template edits needed. Within the Forum Home Templates group the following templates all require the modification below.

forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
forumhome_subforumbit_nopost
forumhome_subforumbit_post

In each of the templates above find:
[php]<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">[/php]

And Keith said: replace with: wich is WRONG
[php]<a href="f$forum[forumid]-$forum[url].html">$forum[title]</a>[/php]

the correct version of above replacement is:
Find:
[php]<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">[/php]
replace:
[php]<a href="f$forum[forumid]-$forum[url].html">[/php]
otherwise you got 2 forum titles, in your forum home, and I am sure you will not like to seen this,

except this little bug, great post, thx keith

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 16th, 2005

Would it be fairly easy to modify this a bit so that the URL for topics also included the forum title, but make it look like a directory?

Basically, something like this:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/t2...mber_2004.html

Would be modified to look like this:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/announcements/t28559_member_of_the_month_-december_2004.html

... where announcements is the forum title.

Similarly, why not translate

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f1...uncements.html to
http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f120_announcements/ or
http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f1...nts/index.html ?

This mimics the structure of the forum, is logical to visitors AND opens up the possibility of improving SEO (by combining forum title + thread title in the URL).

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 17th, 2005

I found a bug. If the forum name has a ? in it, the resulting URL fails. For example:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f1...ou-laugh?.html doesn't work.

I'm also getting complaints from my admin that there are too many redirects:

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# wget http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/newpostinthread28848.html
  --00:54:48--  http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/newpostinthread28848.html
  		   => `newpostinthread28848.html'
  Resolving www.bigblueball.com... done.
  Connecting to www.bigblueball.com[70.84.84.106]:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
  Location: http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28848&goto=lastpost [following]
  --00:54:48--  http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28848&goto=lastpost
  		   => `showthread.php?t=28848&goto=lastpost'
  Connecting to www.bigblueball.com[70.84.84.106]:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
  Location: http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?p=159143#post159143 [following]
  --00:54:48--  http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/showthread.php?p=159143
  		   => `showthread.php?p=159143'
  Connecting to www.bigblueball.com[70.84.84.106]:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 37,924 [text/html]
  
 100%[================================================== ==================>] 37,924	 36.17M/s	ETA 00:00
  
  00:54:48 (36.17 MB/s) - `showthread.php?p=159143' saved [37924/37924]

Is this something to be concerned about?

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 17th, 2005

I fixed the problem with question marks in the forum title. I had to make the following changes:

forumdisplay.php - Added regular expression to strip out special characters
[PHP]// ################ MOD_REWRITE HACK ######################
foreach ($parentlist AS $forumID)
{
$forumTitle = $forumcache["$forumID"]['title'];
$forumURL = strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-",str_replace("/", "-", $forumTitle)));
$forumURL = ereg_replace("[\/!£$%^&*«»,.;:'#@~{}|=+`¬<>?]+", "", $forumURL);
$navbits["f$forumID-$forumURL.html"] = $forumTitle;
}
// ################ MOD_REWRITE HACK ###################### [/PHP]
includes/functions_forumlist.php - Replace in both sections
[PHP]// ################ MOD_REWRITE HACK ######################
$forum['url'] = strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-",str_replace("/", "-", $forum['title'])));
$forum['url'] = ereg_replace("[\/!£$%^&*«»,.;:'#@~{}|=+`¬<>?]+", "", $forum['url']);
// ################ MOD_REWRITE HACK ###################### [/PHP]Now, questions marks and other special characters that might be in your forum titles won't mess up your URLs.

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Feb 17th, 2005

can you post a test url ?

cause on the url you given there is still the 404 error
I also heard that":" could cause problems is this with your replacement fixed also ?

I always wanted to ask when I use a new template / style all the stuff hast to be redone, I tried to load the template inherited from my master template with all the changed I made here, the the rewirte does work, but the button / pathes arent correct anymore, can this be fixed within the xml file ?

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Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

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Originally Posted by oil

can you post a test url?

The fix I posted above strips out question marks, so the resulting URL now looks like:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f1...ou-laugh?.html (no more question mark).

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Originally Posted by oil

I also heard that":" could cause problems is this with your replacement fixed also?

Yes, it will strip out all of the following characters: \/!£$%^&*«»,.;:'#@~{}|=+`¬<>?

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Originally Posted by oil

I always wanted to ask when I use a new template / style all the stuff hast to be redone, I tried to load the template inherited from my master template with all the changed I made here, the the rewirte does work, but the button / pathes arent correct anymore, can this be fixed within the xml file ?

What I do is first download a copy of my "production" style, then import that as a new style and modify that. I don't know if that's the best practice or not, but it's worked OK for me.