url addresses

[Daniel]

Not actually sure where this goes.

With a forum how do you make the name like:

webforumz.com/webforumz-cafe/46768-webforumz-toolbar.htm

instead of all the showforum=?number4 etc...

[Marc]

I thought that was to do with vbSEO.

[Daniel]

no ive seen it on other sites as well as vbulliten.

[Marc]

do they not have vbseo aswell though?

[Daniel]

think its something to do with apache

[pa007]

Google [url rewrite] as far as I'm aware there are a few tutorials out there but can get pretty complex, so be warned. I know Karinne was doing something like this a while ago, dunno if she managed it though.


Pete.

[Daniel]

Bloody hell that does look hard - anyone fancy doing it for me 8)

[karinne]

Yeah ... I tried and I still didn't get it working!

[pa007]

It's something to with the .htaccess isn't it. It all looks very complicated to me. Though I did manage to do it a while back when I was first messing around with blogs but I can't remember where I got the info or the tutorial. Strange.

Pete.

[karinne]

yep ... it's .htaccess

This is the code I tried

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*\/archive\/.*_bid([0-9]*).* /archive/?bid=$1

[Daniel]

and did taht work?

[karinne]

No

It's something with the FollowSymLinks line ... but ... not sure.

[Daniel]

What does Webforumz use for this site then?

[spinal007]

Webforumz uses vbSEO, but a previous suggestion of URL Rewrite is correct (as long as your being hosted on a Apache server, not Windows)

[Daniel]

Jacob what am I hosted on?

[Marc]

More than likely linux, since Jacob is hosted on site5 i think and i dont think Site5 have microsoft hosting.