[Forum] How to remove "forums" in the links with "Friendly URLs with mod_rewrite" active

[yin9]

Hi all.

How do i to remove "forums" in the links with "Friendly URLs with Mod Rewrite" active?

I use this .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
# RewriteBase /forum/
# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

I have installed the forum on "forums" directory, when i go to one forum o subforum, the link looks like this: www.xxxxx.com/forums/forums/forumtitle

So i like this view: www.xxxxx.com/forums/forumtitle

How i can do it?

Sorry for my poor English.

Greetings.

[Expert1]

Well , I had this same problem with my urls. Finally i managed to remove the word "forums" from my url by choosing the advanced friendly urls in AdminCP options -> settings -> Friendly URLs .

Now my link has the word forumdisplay.php instead of forums , i think this is much better than forums

[Breakpoint]

Can someone please help with this?

[Breakpoint]

I read this on another forum since this forum isn't too helpful, I haven't tested but looks like it could work

Some people want the /forums/ to point to the forumindex page and /blogs/ to point to blog.php the following rewrite rules will take care of this. These should be added to the .htaccess file (don't overwrite any existing rules, these are new ones)

RewriteRule ^forums/(index.php)?$ forum.php?%{QUERY_STRING} RewriteRule ^blogs/(index.php)?$ blog.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

Finally do a search of your templates + phrases for occurrences of forum.php and blog.php and change them to forums/index.php and blogs/index.php (or forums/ and blogs/) respectively.

[SimonVlc]

Hi all,

I have the same problem than the first poster. Is there any way to remove forums|threads words from the friendly urls system?

Kind regards, Simon.

[Matthew Gordon]

No, there is not.

[slinky]

No, there is not.

Matthew - I'm installing a new forum with the new friendly URLs. Does that mean that all forums must have the word "forums" in the URL, e.g. myforums.com/forums/11-forum-name and the like for posts?

[Dustin L.]

Matthew - I'm installing a new forum with the new friendly URLs. Does that mean that all forums must have the word "forums" in the URL, e.g. myforums.com/forums/11-forum-name and the like for posts?

Yes unless you use .htaccess to remove it from the URL.

Best,

Dustin

[slinky]

Yes unless you use .htaccess to remove it from the URL.

I edited the .htaccess file but apparently there is more to it than just doing that. I get a "not found" message.

I did a number of things that I'm having problems with because of the internal management -

I have the forum in a root directory.


1) Getting rid of forums.php entirely from the URL
2) Making sure there are also no URLs being generated with forums.php (or you have 2 links to the same page)
3) Getting rid of the "forums/" in the friendly urls for both viewing forums and in threads.
4) Changing the word "threads" to something else

[Dustin L.]

Try going to Settings -> Options -> Friendly URLs -> and setting URL Type to Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs



Dustin

[slinky]

Try going to Settings -> Options -> Friendly URLs -> and setting URL Type to Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs



Dustin

Dustin... that's where the problem began.

So I have it set up that way but no matter what I do the word "forums" is always in the URL. I look at the .htaccess and removing the forums entry doesn't help me since the forums are always being generated in the URL. Even if I set the URL for the forum as the root address, I still am getting that in the URL and the home contains forums.php in the URL generated in the navigation. I removed the item in the navigation solely to use a / and that worked once - but now it's back to using the forums.php.

[Dustin L.]

You must've edited this quickly after posting it because I didn't see it. :P Sorry about that.

I am no expert at Mod Rewrite, so maybe you'd get better help at vB.org.

Sorry :/

Best,

Dustin

[slinky]

The manual shows the threads as mysite.com/threads/thread-name but i want to change it to the letter "t" or change the articles to the letter "a" and the like. I also don't want the word "forums" in the URL but don't see any way to accomplish this.

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You must've edited this quickly after posting it because I didn't see it. :P Sorry about that.

I am no expert at Mod Rewrite, so maybe you'd get better help at vB.org.

I appreciate it. I'm just surprised that this is the way it comes out of the box.

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The answer is - the only way is to hack the core. I just did it successfully and wrote up a tutorial for myself that I'll need to do with every upgrade. Disappointing that since 2009 this hasn't been modified but it is what it is. Thanks for trying to help - I really do appreciate it.