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After being requested to write a tutorial a few times, I've finally found the time to create a mod_rewrite tutorial for vBulletin 3. What this tutorial will allow you to do is make your vBulletin forum search engine spiderable - for Google and all the others. [i]<< update >>[/i] [i][b]This …

Not sure where to post so I guess I will post here. I have Yahoo! IM, and for some reason I Can not voice chat at all. This even happens when I try and go into the website and chat there. It suggests that I get out from behind my …

I am Sorry if i am writing in wrong section but i didn't find any suitable section for my question ! My question is Digitalpoint(DP) has :--Members: 126,796, Active Members: 43,704 And here in daniweb :-- Members: 258,748 Then why Dp has ALexa rank of 253 and Daniweb 4675 ? …

I'm working on an update to my site header using no tables and lists for the navigation. It renders great in both IE 6 and Opera, but breaks in Firefox. Here is a link to the test page: [url]http://old.bigblueball.com/v3/test.htm[/url] and the CSS file: [url]http://old.bigblueball.com/v3/default.css[/url] In Firefox, the <div> for the …

I get the DaniWeb newsletter each month, along with an interview of the latest Member of the Month. The interviews all refer to this member being the latest member of the DaniWeb "Hall of Fame," but I cannot find any such "Hall of Fame" post or page here on the …

I am doing a little research on which forums are usually used by the average Joe. :o

I figured it was time that a revised edition of this tutorial be written up. So, I asked Dani if it was ok and well..... here it is :D This revised edition includes how to make your forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread and who's online sections all show search engine friendly urls …

I noticed that if I visit the 'Web development' forum index, the background turns blue (and ugly). That's all for today!

Hi there, i was thinking of building an instant messaging systemon a LAN, for my final year project. Dont know how to go about it, really need ideas. I was planning on using java sockets to create the system. Any helpful tips will be really appreciated.

Hi there, i was thinking of building an instant messaging systemon a LAN, for my final year project. Dont know how to go about it, really need ideas. I was planning on using java sockets to create the system. Any helpful tips will be really appreciated.

Hi! I'm just posting to say that I love the new style. Much better than the old one :D If I find any bugs I will tell you Thanks, Alex

Also check out [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread13624.html[/url] as I am trying to compile a list of places that I can ads from Ok... I have a site, getting people stopping by, so what the hell put a couple ads out their and see what happens. I do have a vb forum, and I …

I have a Linux webserver with TCL 8.3 installed, and I need to upgrade to TCL 8.4 in order to install Eggdrop. I have installation instructions for TCL 8.4, but do I need to uninstall 8.3 first? I have shell access to the server, and a very rudimentary knowledge of …

I'm trying to do a very basic per-directory mod_rewrite. I have an old URL that points to a file that no longer exists: [url="http://www.bigblueball.com/im/msn/tab/default.asp"]http://www.bigblueball.com/im/msn/tab/default.asp[/url] and I want to redirect that to it's replacement: [url="http://www.bigblueball.com/im/msn/tab/index.php"]http://www.bigblueball.com/im/msn/tab/index.php[/url] My /im/msn/tab/.htaccess file looks like this: [CODE]RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /im/msn/tab RewriteRule ^default\.asp$ index.php [L][/CODE]But doesn't work. …

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum--Moderators, please move if appropriate. I have a vexing problem with someone sending spam with fake "from" email addresses supposedly at my domain (i.e. "ehdacywjkg@bigblueball.com"). We have a mailserver, but we do not provide an open SMTP service, and checking the logs …

I recently started using Windows Messenger and enjoyed the real time voice/sound communication feature through microphone.Is there any way to do the same thing through LAN?I mean do I need special software or not?And if yes where can I find it?

My main site has been active for 3-1/2 years, but we've grown considerably in the past year and it's time for to refresh things. At the stroke of midnight, New Year's Eve on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean (the first time zone to pass into 2005), we're kicking off …

When you're not logged in here at daniweb, you see a message that shows the total number of members, the number of people online now and the number of members online in the past 24 hours. I like it a lot, and I'm also using vBulletin. How did you do …

How do you create custom pages like [url]http://www.daniweb.com/mediakit/[/url] that appear to be integrated with vBulletin? I'm fairly new to vBulletin and am currently migrating one of my websites from ASP to PHP. I can see some advantages to the integration, but I'm not sure how you accomplished it.

To those of you out there with successful sites, inquiring minds want to know. Was there any one thing that spiked your growth? Was it being slashdotted? Being blogged? Or was it a combination of things that happened over a short period of time. Or just steady growth over time?

I'm in the process of converting my site from ASP to PHP, and I'd like to use mod_rewrite to make sure all the search engines that currently have all my .asp pages indexed will take people to the appropriate .php counterparts. That's simple enough for the "static" pages, but the …