I tried this and joined here after your post at seoforums. I need your help. There were a few changes from your vb 3.0.1 to vb 3.0.3.

I put the changs in that you states through your steps. First off thanks for the post and the mod, it is outstanding. I was wondering if you could help me! Is there anyway that you would be willing to look at my test forums and tell me what is wrong with what I did

Mike

http://www.sportsrant.com/testforums

this is what my htaccess file looks like!

RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteRule ^thread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^lastpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^newpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]

acutally ma'am i was able to get this to work! It works perfectly and this is an awesome modification. The only question that I have is
when you click on this link (example)

http://www.sportsrant.com/forums/newpostinthread3503.html

then it should go to that URL, instead is goes to the regular php post, but it goes to:

http://www.sportsrant.com/forums/showthread.php?p=58619#post58619

Is there anyway to change that also!!

Mike

I sent this email to another VB member here to see one problem with this tweak

he only thing that gets me about this is from the forums home page! (EXAMPLE)

This link here: http://www.sportsrant.com/forums/newpostinthread3501.html takes you to the latest thread like it should: http://www.sportsrant.com/forums/showthread.php?p=58579#post58579 and I do not believe this is good for SEO! If you go into that forum, even on your site, and click on http://www.sportsrant.com/forums/thread3501.html which is the same post and actually goes to the thread. Do you understand where I am coming from! Can this be fixed or tweaked to work, there has to be away. It will make it even more SEO!!

that latest fix is the perfect fit and everything works as you posted. I REALLY appreciate your dedication and hard work. For people that want to have SEO type forums, You're an angel!!

Mike :mrgreen:

Wow amazing work. I'll surely try this out when I get the chance.

Just got it done on www.sgwebhostingtalk.com , after some editting here and there since it didnt work very smooth for me. But still thanks ALOT dani ! :twisted:

Excelent modification, congratulations :D

But :( i have a problem >.<

In my online appears Unknown Location for example:

Unknown
/foro/thread26600.html <-----

or

Unknown
/foro/thread9721.html <----

Any idea to how fix this problem?

You're very welcome ToOnZ! I hope you got it all straightened out. Darmak, what you're asking seems that it can be accomplished by editing the includes/functions_online.php file. There is actually an existing vB.org hack that might be helpful - please let us know if it worked for you:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66569

Thanks but this hack is for .php scripts and not works whit this mod :/

Any other idea?

I've just tried to have a proper go of this on my religion forums - I did try very hard to follow the instructions as entirely and *only* described in the original post - - - but I have a problem I'm afraid I don't understand, and input would be much much appreciated.

The problem is that every single link leads to a 404. I have an index page with no working links.

However, a couple of things don't look as planned and this may help diagnose the problem:

I tried to follow CSGAL's method of using .htaccess to rename all boards on a forum.

Yet whether I include the rewrites for my individual board names - or not - in the .htaccess file, all of my board names are rewritten anyway.

So whether I include:

RewriteEngine on
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   RewriteRule ^thread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^lastpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^newpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^forum([0-9]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L] 
   
   <strong>RewriteRule ^belief-spirituality.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=12 [L]</strong>

or not, my boards still have their names rewritten - for example, the above forum is rewritten as:

/community/belief-and-spirituality.html




Another odd thing is that my sub-forums are all showing with the link:

/community/.html

And that's with - or without - the .htaccess file editing.



None of the "newpostinthread2333.html" etc links work either - absolutely every forum link goes to a 404.



Any ideas whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep the forum closed down for the time being until I can get this figured out - at least for today. Help. Please?



:eek:

Thanks for the suggestions - much appreciated.

I just repeated everything again, reverting all templates, then re-editing them carefully, trying not to make typos - but nothing has changed.

Is it possible that there's something about Apache that is unusually configured on the server my forums are running from? I know on another vBulletin I have the static archive feature does not work because PHP is running as CGI. Is it possible that something similar is happening here?

Ah-ha-ha! Success!

The key was the .htaccess file in the forum root folder! (As opposed to site root folder, if forum not at the root.)

The only possible additional issue is that the forum titles absolutely had to be the forum URLs - so a board named "keyword1 and keyword2" could not be in the .htaccess file as "keyword1-keyword2" - had to be "keyword1-and-keyword2". I wasn't expecting that. But was easily corrected for via .htaccess.

Dani, you are so a star. :)

Ten thousand blessings on you. :)

Thanks for the tips - it's always just the daft little things that floor me. Apologies if I made you look too hard. :)