I found an error with the hack. If someone uses a : in their thread title it hoses the hack. The browser thinks is is a protocol that they are defining like http or ftp.

This is what I am saying, or trying to say.

Visit www.nick0r.co.uk (my vb forum)

Click test on towards the right of the page, you'll see it leads to a 404.
I cannot see why it leads to a 404 as i've followed yours and teds instructions perfectly.

Next, click Main forum and then test and you'll see at the top:
Card Game Forums > Main Category > Main Forum

Click either main category or main forum and you'll be taken to a 404.

Both of the above problems I cannot work out how to fix, please advise.

Just to say i found a solution to the problem where you get and unknown url with thread(id).html , what i did was..

Open /includes/functions_online.php

Find:
[php]
switch($filename)
[/php]

Above put:

[php]
if (eregi("thread", $filename)) {

$filename = 'showthread.php';

}
[/php]

This ensures that as long as the URL has the word thread in it, it trats it like a thread :cheesy:

Go to this forum on my site http://www.highaltitudeimports.com/f75-trade-zone.html

Click on any thread that has a : in the title like FS: Si Rims

As of page 3 there was a section added to the hack to have keyword rich url's for the threadbit. Works great, but what rewrite rule do we insert to convert the :'s into spaces or something else

1EightT

I think a ReWrite condition is required to strip out the : in thread titles.

From looking at the rewrite guide closest match to the practical examples listed would be:

... RewriteEngine On # Either use the (plaintext) allow list from goodsites.txt RewriteMap ProxyAllow txt:/usr/local/apache/conf/goodsites.txt # Or, for faster access, convert it to a DBM database: #RewriteMap ProxyAllow dbm:/usr/local/apache/conf/goodsites # Match lowercased hostnames RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower # Here we go:

# 1) first lowercase the site name and strip off a :port suffix RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}} ^([^:]*).*$ # 2) next look it up in the map file. # "%1" refers to the previous regex. # If the result is "OK", proxy access is granted. RewriteCond ${ProxyAllow:%1|DENY} !^OK$ [NC] # 3) Disallow proxy requests if the site was _not_ tagged "OK": RewriteRule ^proxy: - [F] ...

Some modification is required to make it work though. Got stuck here. ReWrite Guide

thanks cscgal, unfortunately with the $ it still behaved the same.

In my test template I had

replaced with



and in htaccess have

RewriteRule ^forum([0-9]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?fid=$1 [L]


anyone see any issue with this as it isn't working!

Actually there is no need to mess around with mod_rewite to strip out the ":" in thread titles.
Just insert a colon in the code

/?!.$%£()~*@

This will strip out the : in thread urls.forumdisplay.php

[PHP]// added by keith
$thread['url'] = strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", $thread['threadtitle']));
$thread['url'] = ereg_replace("[/?!.$%£()~*@]+", "", $thread['url']);
// added by keith[/PHP]

aussie: not really sure about your problem.. not sure which mod_rewrite version you are following but stick with one, cscgal or Ted S.

Zen

this is in relation to attempting rewrite on an xmb forum.

I wonder if Ted can write full instructions, e.g take the appropriate bits of cscgal's and put them into one set of instructions, I seem to think I've failed somewhere as i've got confused on which instructions to use.

As I require this to work, I've now posted this as a paid project at http://www.scriptlance.com/

If, interested, search for:

Mod_rewrite For Htaccess

Thank you.

Hi cscgal,

first, very nice tutorial - thank you so much.

On DaniWeb, I've only bothered to add rewritten multiple pages to the forum listings and not to the actual threads. This is because it's important for google to spider the multiple forum pages to find links to all of the threads on DaniWeb, but it's not important for people to find the middle of threads through google - I'd rather them get the full benefit and only find the first page - after all, that's the one with the google ad and that's also the one that makes the most sense to initially read.

Can you please post the code you used to get the multiple pages for forum listings working?

Cheers,

Magicspark

Hi i got a broken link, can i know where to edit it ?

On page http://www.sgwebhostingtalk.com/f28-hosting-control-panels-and-applications.html
when you click on "MAIN DISCUSSION",
the link to http://www.sgwebhostingtalk.com/forum1.html
gives the error: Not found.

Happens for all the links on that area, Thanks.

Hello,thanks for all the great info in this thread.I seem to be having a problem with 404's on the index page just as previously stated in the thread by someone else.I havent quite been able to figure this out yet so if someone could possibly give me a hand id appreciate it :)

http://www.non-chalant.com/forum

If you need any extra info let me know,thanks.

Oh,another point,on some of the threadbit edits(particulary step 2)i had a problem with that edit just not existing in my template.As well on Step 7 there was only one instance of the code needing edited and it was stated to be 2.Also there was no accesskey 1 on the end of the only edit of Step 7 i found.Not positive if this has any bearing on my problem or not.I have edited some of my templates previously to make the forum more SEO friendly.Thanks again for the help

Ok,got the index 404 problem figured out myself.Now im having a 404 when i click on an actual thread(forumdisplay).I shall see if i can work this out myself but if anyone has any advice please clue me in as im going at this practicly blind :mrgreen:

awesome mod! works perfectly on my forum! Thanks csgal and Ted!

Alright,no luck so far in figuring out why im getting the 404's when trying to click on a thread.Ive checked some obvious things that would seem to effect it,still 404's.

If anyone could give me a point in the right direction and/or tell me what could be the root of this,im sure i could hack it out :D

Sure.My url is http://non-chalant.com/forum
And the .htaccess is,

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^t([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]

Thanks alot for the help ;)