phpBB Search Engine Optimization - Sessions, static ( SEO )

OK, I installed the mod and I think the last thing that needs dome is finalizing the .htaccess file. I made it, it ended up having to be called 1.htaccess, but I use frontpage as my editor and not sure if I can control how it is uploaded (binary, ASCII, etc) Can someone provide some input on this? WHere I'm at right now is if you are logged in, you can't tell anything is different. If you aren't logged in, the browser identifies the links as www,mysite.com/forum3 for example ten when you click on it you get the page not found. Is this right so far?

New Design Integrate Problem
Perhaps this has been answered, but I have been unable to find an answer to it.

After two days of trying to incorporate this mod into a style (skin) that is not the standard phpBB skin, I have been unable to get it to work properly. Actually all of the links work fine except for the primary "category" links that are on the home page.

Oddly enough, when I insert the original index_body.tpl file (from subSilver), the issue is still there. When I change the style back to the orginal subSilver design, it all works fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening.

Thanks in advance for your help.

See here: http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44896

Probably not, no attempt to make it compatible with that mod has been made.



Sometime soon and yes.

OK, never mind the last post. I switched from frontpage to dreamweaver. I was also able to get to my .htaccess file on my server. I am still having problems though. It seems as though when not logged in, you can see the link is converted to an html file(.../forum-5.html for example) However, when you click it you get 404 error. Here is the htaccess file, do you see any problems with it? Also wanted to note, the subdirectory my forums is in is ../forum/ not forums, I left it as forums because otherwise I cannot even get to the forums!

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName stampingallery.com
AuthUserFile /www/s/t/stampingallery.com/htdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /www/s/t/stampingallery.com/htdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^forums.* index.php [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?p=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?p=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^view-poll([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&vote=viewresult [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&view=newest viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=newest [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^mark-forum([0-9]*).html* viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topics [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&watch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^stop-updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&unwatch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).html viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^topic-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next [L,NC]


Thanks for all your help!!!

Any thoughts at all anyone on using the rewrite Mod on portal.php as well as Index.php? I was hoping for an easy answer, but no replies to my query.

bschneider5,

Please see the link I posted for you.

Error pages when guest clicks an forum
I have applied the mod_rewrite1.0.0 mod and when people arent't logged in they get a page not found error page.

How can I redirect guest accounts to a login/register page or maybe even let them read the forum but not post or reply to it?

greets
Lex

Craven de Kere , i was wondering if you can tell me what u think on the following

i found this at some place


thanks for your time ...

Re: Error pages when guest clicks an forum


The mod is not working for you, please see the last link I posted for information on how to fix it.

No harm is done, but the inbound links would be more powerful if they all point at the same URL.

This will be rendered moot when the next version is released. It rewrites for both logged in and logged out users.

The mod is finshed, but I need to do some testing before I release it. I have a lot going on this weekend but it will be released within the next 14 days.

thank you for taking time to reply i will be waiting for the next release

I feel so small...
I feel so small...

Craven thank you for the link... I indeed placed the .htaccess code in the root www folder's .htaccess instead of the forum root .htaccess...

can you ever forgive us dummies?

New MOD for latest phpBB?
Hi Craven,

I wanted to ask about the mod that you posted for download (on the first page of this 136-page-long thread)-
Does it apply in the exact same way to the latest phpBB - version phpBB 2.0.17 ?

Thanks!

Reply to Tekguru's query.
Craven, or anyone else, any ideas how to get the MOD working with the portal.php, I've kept on trying but alas nothing seems to work!

Ive been using this original mod on 2.0.17 version but as yet not shown up in any google indexing although i do know that google has been to my site as i have the XML Google Sitemap mod installed.

How long did this take you guys to show up in google? I have followed the instructs exact and everything works except i am not being stored in google

Maybe this new release will sort it

I also have installed the "googlebot detector" for the admin panel of my phpBB forum, i have installed both mods that come in this download but ive found in my googlebot detector it has shown as visting



This only a sample but how come the bot is indexing as php and not as html?

Does having the XML Google Sitemap module installed on the phpBB forum affect the SEO mod? Anybody else use this?

This sounds like a really good mod, nice work! However, my webhost doesn't
allow mod_rewrite, but does it work without it?

Hi,

I recently got this mod working, thanks to all here.

However I am trying to trim all the pages to help SEO. For example getting rid of the jump menus.

On posting.php I want to get rid of the refresh to viewpost. This happens when you have submitted a message you then have two links, one to the forum the other to view just your message in that thread.

I don't want to give the user a choice, just to go to the forum page. But refresh keeps kicking in.

I have looked at the the templates area and cannot find this specific part of posting.php

Anyone know where to look?

The biggest reason for this is that I get a 404 error when it refreshes that I dont want.

http://www........ post-17.html#17 is how it comes up in the URL this has a 404 error.

Cheers

is there any release for phpbb2 plus 1.52 like this forum?
the index.php and some other files are so different from phpbb2 core.
thanks