search engine spidering

[groundup]

We should figure out a way to change the ? and the ; to / so that way search engines will spider every thread and page in the forum. (just look at vBSpiderFriend - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15628)

If someone has a vb license, I would really like to see that hack

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i've read somewhere that u can do this if u have access to mod_rewrite or something in apache...
i think zef is doing that for keytopic...

[groundup]

there is a way to make it a mod, i don't really think that most people have access to that.

[Spaceman-Spiff]

is keytopic using mod_rewrite?
google still lists some stuffs inside my forum...

btw, been wondering for a long time, how does YSE uses ; instead of & ?

[Gobalopper]

How or why? QueryString is what splits the actions up but to me it would make more sense to use & instead as php splits up variables automatically when you use that.

[David]

How or why? QueryString is what splits the actions up but to me it would make more sense to use & instead as php splits up variables automatically when you use that.

Yeah, I never understoog the ; thing, unless it was left over from the Perl version.

[Nemesis]

If someone has a vb license, I would really like to see that hack

Don't know if that would work. VB boards automatically install the mods from the vbhack site forum. User don't even get to see the mod file. It is all automatically installed.

They just see a mod they like on their forum.

Click on a button on top of the forum page called installed. (Next to where we normaly see reply.)

Then it automatically installed the mod on their board.

Pretty unique VB feature if you ask me! User does not have to do anything. After you press the install button, it just says in the thread. "ModName:" installed. If you go to that user board, it truly is installed.   All this is done right in the vbhack forum.

[Nemesis]

We should figure out a way to change the ? and the ; to / so that way search engines will spider every thread and page in the forum. (just look at vBSpiderFriend - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15628)

If someone has a vb license, I would really like to see that hack

Duh just though of something.

There are several ways you can do this. I would suggest trying to use "mod_rewrite"

Here is an article on mod_rewrite from sitepoint:
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/910

Another thing you may try but not tested is, explode the path. IE:

Code Select Expand

list($dummy, $page, $id) = explode('/', $PATH_INFO);

Here is another soulution. Place this in your .htaccess file

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^yourpage/(.*)\.html$ /yourpage.php?id=$1

That will turn something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.php?id=10
to
http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage/10.html

Hope that helps...

[cyc]

Here is another soulution. Place this in your .htaccess file

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^yourpage/(.*)\.html$ /yourpage.php?id=$1

That will turn something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.php?id=10
to
http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage/10.html

Hope that helps...

Do you know of a wroking example of this? I tried it but have a small problem:
http://www.cyclingforums.com/index.php?board=19
to
http://www.cyclingforums.com/index/19.php

cheers!

[groundup]

i know you have to edit querystring.php and probably edit each action. Not sure though.

[Nemesis]

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index/(.*)\.html$ /index.php?board=$1

try this

[pege]

I'd like to see this as an option in YaBBSE admin, to make your pages so they can be spidered.  I'm a little leary of trying to hack this feature.

[Ben_S]

I just wonder what will happen if someone does it and google spiders 100,000 posts. The server will probably die

[groundup]

I wouldn't be worried.. imagine all of the hits your site will receive after that

[groundup]

nemesis: would that work to change ?, ;, and = to /?

since everything in the url bar is a variable which are only letters and everything on the other side of the = are only numbers, I think it would be feasible to change everything to /

also, I really would like a way to do this without .htaccess.