[beta 1.5.4] Smart URLs v2.1

[Anguz]

One more thing for you - the counter - shouldn't that be visible only to admins?  It seems to show all the time if it's turned on.

I changed it now... it'll show always to the admin

and when checked in modsettings, it'll show to everyone else too

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if($modSettings['smartUrl'] == 1 && ($modSettings['sUrl_counter'] == 1 || $settings[7] == 'Administrator')){

[dschwab9]

Man!  Right after I spend 2 hours installing this thing, you go and make a new version    

Do you mind posting what files you changed between 2.0 and 2.1?

[Anguz]

Man!  Right after I spend 2 hours installing this thing, you go and make a new version    

Do you ming posting what files you changed between 2.0 and 2.1?

sure, give me 5 minutes and there'll be a new post with the changes

[Anguz]

these are the changes I did in the mod a while ago, I wrote it as a mod file so you just apply it to the modded files

since you may have error with the tabs and spaces if posting the code, here's the file

http://anguz.net/yabbse/mods/sUrl_v2-2.1.txt

[dschwab9]

well... I'm trying to stay away from changing every url, that's what I was doing before and was way slower in relative_url, so I'll stick to this way of doing it, only modifying urls in links to boards and threads

That seems to work great.  Google is crawling my ste right now, and I'm seeing very little in the error log.  Before, it would click on all the "Post" buttons, and I would get thousands of errors about not being logged in.

can't you use a regex to detect only those urls and rewrite them? you could use the file extension in modsettings to identify them maybe, or the kw for the whole community, which will only be used in those urls, or a combination of both... if not using neither of them, maybe detecting the new format for boards or threads...  \/(b|t)([0-9]+) maybe?

That would work, but the problem is you have to have something that always stays the same (or at least the same format) to detect.  If you're detecting the entire forum keyword, why not just turn off the keyword and set it as an Apache alias to index.php (like I did to change index.php to content)?

[dschwab9]

these are the changes I did in the mod a while ago, I wrote it as a mod file so you just apply it to the modded files

Awesome!  Thanks.

since you may have error with the tabs and spaces, here's the file

http://anguz.net/yabbse/mods/sUrl_v2-2.1.txt

Actually, the problem I have is mainly with the database querries.  Nearly every querry in my entire forum has at least one field added, so it doesn't detect the line.

Is there a way to do that other than searching and replacing the entire line?  Add another line after it, maybe?

[dschwab9]

I just realized that the relative URLS and cookies and multiple domain names all work together too!

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I have http://www.zukiweb.com/ and http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/ and a couple other names pointing to my forum.  Seems that when browsing view one of my secondary names, all the URL's remain relative, but when I click login or register, I get directed to zuwharrie.com, which is where the cookie is.

[Anguz]

I just realized that the relative URLS and cookies and multiple domain names all work together too!

* dschwab9 like!

I have http://www.zukiweb.com/ and http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/ and a couple other names pointing to my forum.  Seems that when browsing view one of my secondary names, all the URL's remain relative, but when I click login or register, I get directed to zuwharrie.com, which is where the cookie is.

as long as you don't hit one of the links with full urls, being absolute, they'll remain on the name you called it from

Actually, the problem I have is mainly with the database querries.  Nearly every querry in my entire forum has at least one field added, so it doesn't detect the line.

Is there a way to do that other than searching and replacing the entire line?  Add another line after it, maybe?

well... I don't think boardmod can do that, only full lines, but why don't you try applying that update, maybe no errors or very few show up, saving you the trouble of changing some by hand  

Awesome!  Thanks.

[Anguz]

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That seems to work great.  Google is crawling my ste right now, and I'm seeing very little in the error log.  Before, it would click on all the "Post" buttons, and I would get thousands of errors about not being logged in.

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That would work, but the problem is you have to have something that always stays the same (or at least the same format) to detect.  If you're detecting the entire forum keyword, why not just turn off the keyword and set it as an Apache alias to index.php (like I did to change index.php to content)?
hmm... it'd be a lot harder to change the forum that way, since you have to change many more things to make it work... if you use the forum keyword, it's easy to detect those urls and rename them to the correct url

I'm really not experieced with Apache at all, you know more, so I try to keep it simple... as long as it works... maybe the way I approach the mod_rewrite format is wrong  

but I believe that you can have a url like this a detect it using any or all of the parts I'm highlighting

http://domain.tld/community/categ/board/t123-15.htm

and rewrite it as

http://domain.tld/yabbse/index.php/t123-15

[Anguz]

I just realized that the relative URLS and cookies and multiple domain names all work together too!

* dschwab9 like!

I have http://www.zukiweb.com/ and http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/ and a couple other names pointing to my forum.  Seems that when browsing view one of my secondary names, all the URL's remain relative, but when I click login or register, I get directed to zuwharrie.com, which is where the cookie is.

and I just realized that working like this, you can have google index your whole community again, cause it's all under a different domain, without noticing that it's just the same... so you'll have that many more chances of showing up in a search

right now you only have the first page under that domain http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site:www%2Ezukiweb%2Ecom+BBS, but next time google goes that that domain, it'll spider everything  

also, since the other links point to the url where the forum really is, which I think is bbs.zuwharrie.com, it may help increase your link popularity a bit hehe

[dschwab9]

Since I have:

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$scripturl = "/content";
$cgi = "$boardurl/content?board=$board";

In Subs.php, the URL's that do not get re-written are absolute as well.  So, you never leave the domain until you click Login, Register, or Search.

Maybe you should add that to your mod as well?

I'm thinking about creating another alias and setting it up such that threads and stuff are http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/tech/samurai/t2731.htm

and the stuff that doesn't get re-written is http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/forum?board=12;action=post;title=Start%2Bnew%2Bthread

That would eliminate any possibility of the engine thinking content/ and content? are the same thing (if that matters)

[Anguz]

well.. the links to boards and threads are made absolute by the mod already

about the rewrite, it'd be good if you can write a rule that covers all the categs/boards not depeding on their keywords

sorry if I didn't get it, I still get a bit confused with the alias thing  

[dschwab9]

well.. the links to boards and threads are made absolute by the mod already

But there are still some that in old format, like the recent posts list and the "post, quote, and reply" pages.
Those links contain the complete URL, and would get redirected to the main domain everytime you click them.  By changing the $scripturl in Subs.php, they become relative as well, so you can browse every thread from every domain name, but when you click login or register, you go to the main domain.

about the rewrite, it'd be good if you can write a rule that covers all the categs/boards not depeding on their keywords

How would you do that, tho?  There's nothing in the URL's that consistant enough to pickup with a rewrite rule.  And, since you can have boards and cats without key words, some URLs look like http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/b1.htm and some are http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/tech/samurai/b12.htm on the same forum.
You can't rewrite based on the extension, because there may be real htm files in the same directory you don't want to rewrite.

sorry if I didn't get it, I still get a bit confused with the alias thing  

The alias is just another method for calling index.php.

For example, click http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/index.php/tech/samurai/b12.htm
and then
http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/tech/samurai/b12.htm

[Anguz]

But there are still some that in old format, like the recent posts list and the "post, quote, and reply" pages.
Those links contain the complete URL, and would get redirected to the main domain everytime you click them.  By changing the $scripturl in Subs.php, they become relative as well, so you can browse every thread from every domain name, but when you click login or register, you go to the main domain.

what you say would be another mod... this is what relative_url did, but it took to long... also, it doesn't matter if those links point to the other domain, if all the ones pointing to boards and threads remain in the same one

How would you do that, tho?  There's nothing in the URL's that consistant enough to pickup with a rewrite rule.  And, since you can have boards and cats without key words, some URLs look like http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/b1.htm and some are http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/tech/samurai/b12.htm on the same forum.
You can't rewrite based on the extension, because there may be real htm files in the same directory you don't want to rewrite.

you're right about the file extension... but you could use the regex I mentioned before or the dir with the keyword for the community you set in modsettings...

you could even change the file extension to something like ".rw.htm", which won't appear in any other url

http://domain.tld/t123-15.rw.htm

[dschwab9]

you're right about the file extension... but you could use the regex I mentioned before or the dir with the keyword for the community you set in modsettings...

That wouldn't work either because the number of digits in the board and thread number would vary (unless I'm just totally confused)

you could even change the file extension to something like ".rw.htm", and pick up the urls that have the regex above plus the new ".rw" flag...

http://domain.tld/t123-15.rw.htm

That would work.  Wonder if a double extension would have any bad effeects with the search engines, though?