Better Blogger url

[Lifeinitaly]

Is it possible or will it be possible for a blogger to have a url like ( for user paolo for example )

http://my.lifeinitaly.com/paolo
instead of
http://my.lifeinitaly.com/blog.php?u=5

Most blogger want to consider the blog their 'own' part of the site and having a url like the second is awkward. There are also many blog directories where blogger might want to register and my guess ( but I do not now for sure ) is that it will be more difficult to register a url like that
eg containing an id


Paolo

[raiderlax]

soon vbseo is probably going to come out that will seo the urls of the blog :)

[Loco.M]

vbseo has already SEO'd the blog's url's, they are discussion it with the pre-release team right now. :)

[Grover]

Yes, I agree with a more userfriendly URL for Blogs.

Should it be the username that is presented in the blog, like:

www.mysite.com/blog/john cleese (http://www.mysite.com/blog/john cleese)

or should it be the blogtitle, like:

www.mysite.com/blog/john's bloggie da blog (http://www.mysite.com/blog/john's bloggie da blog)

?

[Onimua]

I do wish it could use the current link as default (which works), for example: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?username=onimua

[raiderlax]

vbseo has already SEO'd the blog's url's, they are discussion it with the pre-release team right now. :)

Hey awesome, would you know how long until it will come out?

Thanks :)

[Carnage-]

If you want that link SEO'd you can do it like this:


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule blog/(.*)/$ /forum/blog.php?username=$1


put that into a .htaccess file in the dir containing blog.php and it will turn www.vbulletin.com/blog/username/ into the correct url. Then edit the templates somewhere to mention that that url can also be used to access their blog.

[Reeve of Shinra]

I do wish it could use the current link as default (which works), for example: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?username=onimua

If the user has a space in their name it looks like crap...

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?username=reeve%20of%20shinra

[Pc1203]

If the user has a space in their name it looks like crap...

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?username=reeve%20of%20shinra

Or you could put the "+" for spaces....

- Pc1203

[Michelle]

The best would be to let the user specify a domain (eg myblog) and then use it like myblog.yoursite.com

[Webnower]

I like the subdomain idea. brent-h.mysite.com would be a lot more personal.

[Lizard King]

I like the subdomain idea. brent-h.mysite.com would be a lot more personal.
Think about the future ;)
When 3.7.0 will be out you will need to offer 2 different important clean url to your members. One blog , one member profile.

[Wayne Luke]

Think about the future ;)
When 3.7.0 will be out you will need to offer 2 different important clean url to your members. One blog , one member profile.
Why? Couldn't the profile lead into the blog? They only need one space really.

[Lizard King]

Why? Couldn't the profile lead into the blog? They only need one space really.
I prefer to seperate both of them. I personally use Profile : domain.com/members/membername/ Blog : domain.com/blog/membername/
this will also give users an advantage , it is easier to keep the url on their mind.

[Lifeinitaly]

I like most the subdomain idea
paolo.mysite.com

next

mysite.com/paolo/

last

mysite.com/blog/paolo

Just because it is longer

Thanks
P

[Loco.M]

Hey awesome, would you know how long until it will come out?

Thanks :)

I've been pretty busy lately but I see they have it implemented on the vbulletin blog
http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/

[FreshFroot_]

yeah and NuSEO has too.

http://www.nuhit.com/blog/

There might be more additional features with NuSEO, since it's a whole module.

[Toucan42]

I would like to see an automated method of handling subdomaining for blogs such that usernames become the home for blogs on the domain:

username.domain.com would just be thrilling if it did not involve having to set up subdomains manually - maybe i am just not "in the know" and there already exists some method to do this?

[Kohhal]

See this link, I'm in the process of setting it up now :

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1418659&postcount=17

[Toucan42]

Anyone know where/how one would get at the httpd.conf file to handle adding an aliad for *.domain.com? I am working to set up the subdomains for blogs but have NO CLUE where this Apache file typically resides.

I realize this is outside the support of vbulletin blog ... but hopefully someone has experience in this.

[Toucan42]

OK I got the httpd.conf set up - now I am struggling with the mod rewrite

I need:

http://username.domain.com to rewrite as http://www.domain.com/blog.php?username=username

anyone?

[haris_led]

I think this would be better:
blogs.example.com/username
what i am looking for is an option in VB blog system that can make that kind of thing, without using a seo system.
just an option in vb blog.:confused:
is it possible??