Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs => .htaccess

[Charlie_Brown]

Wayne would that go into the .htaccess file?

[Wayne Luke]

Wayne would that go into the .htaccess file?

That would go into your web.config file if you're using IIS 7 or higher.

[IanR]

Works a treat for me, thanks a lot!

[NavS]

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.4
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798

RewriteEngine On

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE
[COLOR=Red]
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}[/COLOR] 
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
[COLOR=Red]RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}[/COLOR]
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

adding any one of those breaks the whole website for me.

i searched and this works for me now:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)-(.*)? showthread.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+)-(.*)? member.php?u=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)-(.*)? forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]

[lucky89]

Works perfect for me... great work

[Mandar Salvi]

Works perfect for me Thank you very much!

[Veer]

Can we also have friendly urls for social groups and albums?

[snerd]

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.4
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798

RewriteEngine On

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE
[COLOR=Red]
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}[/COLOR] 
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
[COLOR=Red]RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}[/COLOR]
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

adding any one of those breaks the whole website for me.

i searched and this works for me now:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)-(.*)? showthread.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+)-(.*)? member.php?u=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)-(.*)? forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]

Thanks, this works for me also.

[Skyrider]

Curious. I noticed that the mod rewrite rules adds a /thread/ before the link, eg

http://forum.mysite.com/threads/6379-my-post-is-awesome

Is it possible it can be changed to something like this?
http://forum.mysite.com/my-post-is-awesome-t6379.html

I like that one much better.

EDIT!
At the post creator. Using that mod rewrite rules makes you unable to create front page articles. It brings you back to the front page with the link of creating a new article.

[Alfa1]

so how would I get:

http://www.site.com/groups/group-name

[Veer]

also I need this:

http://www.site.com/albums/album-name

[MattyAsia]

so how would I get:

http://www.site.com/groups/group-name

also I need this:
http://www.site.com/albums/album-name

It seems neither of these 2 actually support it. Writing the Rewrite is only a small part of the battle. I could write something that would do things like

http://www.site.com/albums/123-album-name

But vBulletin would still not actually link to it at all.

[MattyAsia]

Curious. I noticed that the mod rewrite rules adds a /thread/ before the link, eg

http://forum.mysite.com/threads/6379-my-post-is-awesome

Is it possible it can be changed to something like this?
http://forum.mysite.com/my-post-is-awesome-t6379.html

I like that one much better.

Not possible through rewrites, I mean I could make it read from something like that... in theory, however, I you'd need to change vBulletin too to open it in such a fashion, way too much work. If your goal is just to make "http://forum.mysite.com/my-post-is-awesome-t6379.html" go to "http://forum.mysite.com/threads/6379-my-post-is-awesome" because of something like vbSEO, that's possible and not so hard.

EDIT!
At the post creator. Using that mod rewrite rules makes you unable to create front page articles. It brings you back to the front page with the link of creating a new article.

Are you using the latest version I've written, check the number and see if it's v 1.4 (as written at the top of the file), it used to have that problem, but I fixed it.

[Lord Osirus]

Worked perfect.

There is no .htaccess to support the "Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs", so I have one written below, the first 3 are just a little beta bug proofing.

I can not guarantee this is perfect, but it's working so far, if I find any bugs, I'll squish em and edit in an updated version

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.4
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798

RewriteEngine On

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

To use this you must have Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs enabled.

To do this...
You need to go to Admin Control Panel then Settings > Options
Server Settings and Optimization Options
Then select Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs in the Friendly URLs section.

UPDATES:
1.4 Fixed content editing for CMS sections without SEO friendly names

If you get Error 500, check the .htaccess file for any \n hidden anywhere as seems to have appeared for a number of users copying from here, see the quote just below. Make sure what you copy is identical to what you see above.

[Yves R.]

You can add one more rule. This rule is for the 'Configure' link into the widget manager (admincp).

RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

This works for me, it could help any other