How to SEO/tidy up blog urls.

[Carnage-]

i posted this into one of the suggestions but i thought it'd probably get over looked there so:

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/ (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../blog/username/) into the correct url. Then edit the templates somewhere to mention that that url can also be used to access their blog.

[ViperMan]

i posted this into one of the suggestions but i thought it'd probably get over looked there so:

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/ (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../blog/username/) into the correct url. Then edit the templates somewhere to mention that that url can also be used to access their blog.

This doesn't work on an IIS server correct?

And for it to work on an IIS server, an external program needs to be purchased, as well as ROOT access to the server?

[Carnage-]

I would never use iis as a webserver so i dont know.

[wh-solution]

Hmm my blog url looks like blog.php?u=1 and not like blog.php?username=name so guess this suggestion will not work that way.

[Freddie Bingham]

Hmm my blog url looks like blog.php?u=1 and not like blog.php?username=name so guess this suggestion will not work that way.
Yes it will.

[Kohhal]

Is there a way to use .htaccess to get urls like username.domain.com ?

[Marcos2]

Hello,

For those of us non-programmers, can you explain in a little more detail what to do? So you create a .htaccess file, insert this code, then upload it into the directory that has blog.php. How would you create the .htaccess file and in which folder would you put it into?

Thanks,

Marcos

[ajcbarrett]

I just get page not found using this?

Im using VBSEO so already have a .htaccess file if that makes a difference. I just added your info to the bottom of the file.

[Lizard King]

I just get page not found using this?

Im using VBSEO so already have a .htaccess file if that makes a difference. I just added your info to the bottom of the file.
Hello ,

vBSEO is currently testing SEO'd blog url's. It will be released with the next version update. Thats why i advise you to wait for that. You can see it on action @ http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/

[Michelle]

Is there a way to use .htaccess to get urls like username.domain.com ?
Anyone?

[FreshFroot_]

NuSEO has the blog feature. They also already have the project tools SEO release too, which is selectable right now.

Check the demo here: http://www.nuhit.com/blog/

[riskofficer]

Is there a way to use SOMETHING to get urls like username.domain.com?

[Michelle]

Is there a way to use SOMETHING to get urls like username.domain.com?
Kohhal and I have already asked the same question, so I guess we should wait till someone more keen on Apache sees the thread.

[FreshFroot_]

so your saying something like riskofficer.domainname.com (riskofficer@domainname.com) meaning if it was installed here on vB you'd want riskofficer.vbulletin.com for all members, where the 1st part is a username?

If so, you should request this feature at www.nuhit.com/forums (http://www.nuhit.com/forums) in the features area. They're very fast with implementing user requested features. I've requested a few things and within a week all of them were added.

[riskofficer]

I think guys from Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. should help us. They sold product and must support it!

[Michelle]

I think guys from Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. should help us. They sold product and must support it!
That's not support, as we're not having any problem with the software, we just want to change something to it. Of course they are not obligated to reply!

[Carnage-]

Is there a way to use .htaccess to get urls like username.domain.com ?

This is a little more tricky, i found this tutorial on how to do it thou: http://www.easymodrewrite.com/example-subdomains

[MsJacquiiC]

That's not support, as we're not having any problem with the software, we just want to change something to it. Of course they are not obligated to reply!

Oh PAH! They were so keen on getting our money!
They should feel at least OBLIGATED to help with customer questions instead of the ole boring concept as seen below:

Sorry, bla bla bla bla bla bla ugh and bla.... This requires modifying the code. We cannot officially support code modifications or forums running modified code, however you can try searching or asking for help with this over at www.vbulletin.org.

Jacquii.

[riskofficer]

Yes man, I couldn't explain in English my point of view as good as you did. Im fully agree with you, "They should feel at least OBLIGATED to help with customer questions instead of the ole boring concept". And in case that vBlog is not meeting modern standarts, but they sell it, they must support it much more better then they do it.

[FreshFroot_]

Yes man, I couldn't explain in English my point of view as good as you did. Im fully agree with you, "They should feel at least OBLIGATED to help with customer questions instead of the ole boring concept". And in case that vBlog is not meeting modern standarts, but they sell it, they must support it much more better then they do it.
yeah I agree too. It seems since the blogs/project tools have come out, the support has dropped a lot.. your lucky if you get a reply, especially in the blog and project forums.

[Freddie Bingham]

I think guys from Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. should help us. They sold product and must support it!
SEO options are not planned for vBulletin or any of its products until v4 of vBulletin. The current code just requires too many kludges to add it in.

[Kohhal]

This is a little more tricky, i found this tutorial on how to do it thou: http://www.easymodrewrite.com/example-subdomains
Hi Carnage,

I got the first 2 parts done for my site and all seems good.

What code did you use in .htaccess for the rewrite?

[Toucan42]

Where did you find httpd.conf? I am having trouble locating where this file might be. This is prolly a newbie question, but I'm a Windows guy not a Linux guy and Apache is newer to me.

[ElfMage]

Where did you find httpd.conf? I am having trouble locating where this file might be. This is prolly a newbie question, but I'm a Windows guy not a Linux guy and Apache is newer to me.

Hi Toucan42,

The httpd.conf file is found in the conf directory, under the Apache installation directory.

If Apache was installed in the default location in your server, it is probably under Program Files / Apache Foundation, or something like that.

[Toucan42]

Thanks for the reply. Turns out my Host had to manage it for me - they don't give the level access needed. I got it done but am now struggling with the mod_rewrite for turning:

http://username.domain.com

into

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

once i get this i should be golden!

any ideas? [not only am i not a linux guy i'm also not a regular expressions guy]

[Toucan42]

Hi Carnage,

I got the first 2 parts done for my site and all seems good.

What code did you use in .htaccess for the rewrite?

Did you get this figured out?

[Kohhal]

Nope not yet, need to do the same as what you're trying... :confused:

[ElfMage]

Hi,

Try the following .htaccess rules:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.nuhit\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([A-Z0-9a-z-]+)\.nuhit\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1 !-d
RewriteRule ^/?$ /forums/blog.php?username=%1 [L]


Change www.nuhit.com to your site's domain name, and tweak the forums/blog.php location if needed.

[Carnage-]

well, this is the code they use on that page:


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) %2/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

So i guess something like this would work as a rewrite rule for the blogs


Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).blogs.domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /forum/blog.php?username=%2 [L]


would work however i dont have the blogs installed yet so i cant test this.

the url per user would be username.blogs.domain.com optionally prefixed with www.

[Kohhal]

Tried both of these and with various combinations and no joy.

Hi,

Try the following .htaccess rules:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.nuhit\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([A-Z0-9a-z-]+)\.nuhit\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1 !-d
RewriteRule ^/?$ /forums/blog.php?username=%1 [L]
Change www.nuhit.com (http://www.nuhit.com) to your site's domain name, and tweak the forums/blog.php location if needed.

Using this at least changes something : I'm asked to login even though I already am and then I get a page not found error for blahblah.domain.com/login.php or something (subdreamer related I think)

...


Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).blogs.domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /forum/blog.php?username=%2 [L]
would work however i dont have the blogs installed yet so i cant test this.

the url per user would be username.blogs.domain.com optionally prefixed with www.

When I include this I get a 501 error and it breaks the wildcard redirect prevously set up...?

Anyone else have it working?

[joomlajon]

Edit template somwhere??? Where???

:)

/Jon

i posted this into one of the suggestions but i thought it'd probably get over looked there so:

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/ (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../blog/username/) into the correct url. Then edit the templates somewhere to mention that that url can also be used to access their blog.

[AnnieC]

That's my question too, Jon....

[karlm]

It seems to break images from the forum/blog.

[Carnage-]

Edit template somwhere??? Where???

:)

/Jon

The template edit is only for user conveniance. You just need to edit a convenient blog template to tell your users what their blog url is

[sharrison]

SEO options are not planned for vBulletin or any of its products until v4 of vBulletin. The current code just requires too many kludges to add it in.

Hi Freddie,

I can understand that, but putting SEO aside entirely , are VB going to at least make the users blog home page URL resemble something that wasn't written by a Dalek?

http://www.domain.com/blog.php?b=1

Is a pretty darn fugly URL for something that represents somebodies home page no ?

Surely you brainy folk can manage

http://www.domain.com/blog/simon

Or something similar?

[sharrison]

Never mind, looks like the VBSEO folk have a solution.

[Ludachris]

i posted this into one of the suggestions but i thought it'd probably get over looked there so:

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/ (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../blog/username/) into the correct url. Then edit the templates somewhere to mention that that url can also be used to access their blog.
Not sure why this is stickied if it doesn't work for everyone. I tried it and it just shows Page Not Found. Are there any other requirements aside from the .htaccess file?

[Lifeinitaly]

Rewrite works but I cannot see the images -
Since I don't have a forum subdirectory - but a second level domain ( my.lifeinitaly.com is where the forum is )

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

This works
http://my.lifeinitaly.com/blog.php?u=27

Thisshows the missing images and the link url that are incorrect
http://my.lifeinitaly.com/blog/justindemetri/

Thanks
P

[noppid]

Try adding FULL PATHS to your images maybe?

[CallieJo]

Not sure why this is stickied if it doesn't work for everyone. I tried it and it just shows Page Not Found. Are there any other requirements aside from the .htaccess file?

Doesn't work for me either.

Edited....

Try this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^\blog/?(.*)$ blog.php?u=$1 [L]
That worked for me....

I've also found a way to make this work for profiles: I posted that here on Vb.org (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=165986)

[karlm]

My forum (and thus) blogs are held within the main domain, and this is still an issue - using full paths.
Try adding FULL PATHS to your images maybe?

[nxvc]

Doesn't work correctly. It's destroying the template and furthermore not showing any icons.

[ZeroHour]

I have this working at my end (not for use for blog it just displays their profile but blogs could be done)
Should I reveal the magic? :D

[Merriweather]

Hello ,

vBSEO is currently testing SEO'd blog url's. It will be released with the next version update. Thats why i advise you to wait for that. You can see it on action @ http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/Has anyone gotten an .htaccess rewrite to work without vBSEO? I don't really care to pay $149 just to have access to one rewrite. :(

[cheat-master30]

I have someone who's made the blog URL 'SEOed' on my forum, with this format:

http://domain.com/forumdirectory/blog-[username]

I'll ask them if I can post the .htaccess content on vBulletin.org as either a modification or article.

[Merriweather]

Thank you, it would be a great help to me!