[beta 1.5.4] Friendly URLs v1.3

[Anguz]

Friendly URLs spawned another two new mods that are better written and work a lot better too. After lots of testing and debugging, I got them working fine under all the circumstances I could think of.

Spider URLs
Absolute URLs

Remove Friendly URLs before installing those.

I'm locking this thread and removing the link to the zip file.

History:
03 SEP 14 removed mod
03 SEP 12 v1.3 fix prev_next links
03 SEP 10 v1.2 relative URLs
03 SEP 10 v1.15 added dschwab9's
03 SEP 08 v1.1 fixed search bug
03 SEP 08 v1 released

[Shadow's Pawn]

I'm running pfabb, so that's probably part of my problem.. but anyway, here is what happens when I click a link to one of my boards:

http://127.0.0.1/mk/index.php/index.php/board-1

And the url just keeps stacking up like that with each click.

This is a board on my computer, as you can see from the url..

[Valconeye]

i find it hard to belive your ip is 127.0.0.1

[Anguz]

I'm running pfabb, so that's probably part of my problem.. but anyway, here is what happens when I click a link to one of my boards:

http://127.0.0.1/mk/index.php/index.php/board-1

And the url just keeps stacking up like that with each click.

This is a board on my computer, as you can see from the url..

that's odd... it's most probably something in the url rewrite part, but I don't know why it's doing that to you

could you please zip your index.php and email it to me?

[1979Z28]

127.0.0.1 is the general IP shortcut to connect to yourself. EVERYBODY'S IP is that, by default.

[Shadow's Pawn]

i find it hard to belive your ip is 127.0.0.1

Like I said, this is on my own computer.. i.e. localhost, which is 127.0.0.1

Anguz, I'll get that over to you.  Keep in mind I'm running Pfabb on that board, which is probably why I'm having problems.

[Anguz]

Anguz, I'll get that over to you.  Keep in mind I'm running Pfabb on that board, which is probably why I'm having problems.

ok

[Anguz]

I can't really understand why it's doing that in your board, cause in mine it isn't...

I changed the code in the functions a bit to do a little test in your forum, tried it in my test forum and it works fine, maybe it solves your problem, but I can't be sure until you try it

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#change urls to friendly format
ob_start('ob_friendly_url');
function ob_friendly_url($buffer)
{
   function rewrite_url($match) {
      if(strstr($match['1'], 'search2')) {
         return $match['0'];
      } else {
         $arr1 = array("=", ";", "&", "?");
         $arr2 = array("-", "_", "_", "/");
         $new = 'index.php' . str_replace($arr1, $arr2, $match['1']);
         return $new;
      }
   }
   return preg_replace_callback("/index.php([?\w;=&+%]+)/", "rewrite_url", $buffer);
}

let me know if it works please

is somebody else having the same problem Shadow's Pawn is?

[dschwab9]

I just tried it and I'm having a different problem.  The links on the forum index are generated in the new format, but when I click any link, I'm getting a 404 error.  Any idea why that would happen?

[Shadow's Pawn]

It's still doing the same thing..  due to the blocks and menu system of pfabb, I'm pretty sure.

Maybe I should post this over there and see if anyone has any ideas?  I'm thinking blocks.php probably needs some editting as well.

[[Unknown]]

Please remember:
- not to use this in conjunction with the Short URLs mod.
- not to use this on an IIS server.

-[Unknown]

[Anguz]

Please remember:
- not to use this in conjunction with the Short URLs mod.
- not to use this on an IIS server.

-[Unknown]

Apache has a "look back" feature that scans backwards down the URL if it doesn't find what it's looking for, I don't know if IIS can work like that too, if someone knows, please tell me

about Short URLs mod, it's true, they wouldn't work as they are, they need to bit changed a bit so they could...

Posted by: Shadow's Pawn  Posted on: Today at 09:05:19am  
It's still doing the same thing..  due to the blocks and menu system of pfabb, I'm pretty sure.

Maybe I should post this over there and see if anyone has any ideas?  I'm thinking blocks.php probably needs some editting as well.

ok, please let me know how it goes

Posted by: dschwab9  Posted on: Today at 08:56:42am  
I just tried it and I'm having a different problem.  The links on the forum index are generated in the new format, but when I click any link, I'm getting a 404 error.  Any idea why that would happen?

this could be the IIS thing [Unknown] mentioned

[dschwab9]

this could be the IIS thing [Unknown] mentioned

I'm not (and will never) run IIS.  It's an Apache server.

I think I know what's happening, just not sure why.  It seems that when apache sees a slash after index.php, it thinks it's a directory.

Basically, it's interpretting http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/index.php/board-33_action-display_threadid-9629 as a file called board-33_action-display_threadid-9629 in a directory called index.php.

Maybe theres a setting I should change in httpd.conf or php.ini?

Click on the link above and you'll see what I'm talking about.  I do not currently have the mod installed, but I get the exact same error when it is.

[[Unknown]]

this could be the IIS thing [Unknown] mentioned

I'm not (and will never) run IIS.  It's an Apache server.

I think I know what's happening, just not sure why.  It seems that when apache sees a slash after index.php, it thinks it's a directory.

That would be why IIS doesn't work.

What version of Apache do you use?

-[Unknown]

[dschwab9]

Using version 2.0.40.  It may just be an apache2 thing?  I've looked for obvious things in httpd.conf, but I'm not an apache expert, so not sure I know what I'm looking for.