[Cypjaxion]

Sorry if this has already been suggested (I didn't see it), but if some people are still having troubles running the scripts (seeing the actual threads and forums besides the forum listings) then try adding this line to the top of you .htaccess file:

AcceptPathInfo On

Now the hack works for me, where previously it didn't.

/me finally clicks install after getting it working!

[dutchbb]

I installed it, when can I expect google to show pages? With vb3 own archive it wasn't working so great, but i see that other forum software makes html pages wich get listed mutch better...

Do I have to be patient?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by Triple_T

Do I have to be patient?

Yes.

[porschinho]

Originally Posted by Smitty

If I remember correctly, add [R=301,L] to the end of each and it''ll throw a clean 301 (permanent move).

HMM .. i think that google will reindex the pages with the new adress, if you add the 301 (page moved) header. and then there will be indexed pages like this: index.php?a=$1$2$3 .. or not?

i fixed it in 2 steps. at first, rewrite the old archives to the new format:
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)?(-[0-9]+)? t-$1$2.html [R=301]

and then rewrite to the real index.php:
RewriteRule ^t-([0-9]+)?(-[0-9]+)? index.php?a=t-$1$2 [L]


with this google will change the URIs from /topic/12345-1.html to /t-12345-1.html
in its index.

i changed the rules 2 days ago and now i am waiting for the next freshbot ...

[joeychgo]

Uploaded a new version???????????

What do I do with this???? How do I update??

Also --how do I make the index show in the "whos online" properly?

[Xenon]

you just have to upload the changed files to install the new version.

or if more work would be required i would have mentioned it within the post i made when i released the new version

[joeychgo]

how do I make the index show in the "whos online" properly?

[Xenon]

Well, as it doesn't use the normal forum directory, i was actually too lazy to write that part right now

[teksigns]

Is Apache absolutely necessary to make this work ?

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Well, as it doesn't use the normal forum directory, i was actually too lazy to write that part right now

Something I just noticed.........

vba CMPS pages are not listed. Is there some way to intergrate those? I am making alot of custom content on CMPS pages......It would be nice to have them listed.........

[TCB]

This really drives me nuts! I was so happy to find this hack, since I can't seem to have the vB archive working (php as cgi).

But after uploading the files from this hack to the (now empty) archive folder I changed the config file to set the right paths.

With this clean install I could see the messageboard in archive format (www.mydomain.com/archive/index.php). But as soon as I clicked on a link to a forum (http://www.mydomain.com/archive/forum/19-1.html) I received a normal vbulletin page with the message 'No Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster'. The pictures on that page didn't show up because they were linked to www.mydomain.com/archive/forum/images, instead of www.mydomain.com/images.

Anyhow, I thought the maybe the mime_mod wasn't installed on the server. So I changed forum to forum.php, just as topic to topic.php. I also changed that in the config.php file.

The result was more or less the same. The link changed to http://www.mydomain.com/archive/forum.php/19-1.html and I still received a standard vbulletin errorpage without the images showing up (but with all colours etc.).

So what should/can I do in order to have a good running archive on a server where php is installed as cgi and mod_mime isn't enabled? :disappointed:

[GregCav]

I installed the non mod_mime version because I'm too impatient to wait around for my host to install something This worked great, though. I typed the URL of the newly indexed, spiderable list of my forums and it appeared easy as pie.

Thanks to whoever wrote this. Now let's see those hits start coming in

BTW - i submitted the URL to google as suggested in Install.txt. Do other search engines have places where you can add your URL? And about how long does it take for these search engines to crawl my pages? Do they do it cyclically, like every week or month or something? I'm just wondering when I should expect the traffic to start kicking up.

Thanks again. K+ for all

Greg

[Xenon]

@Greg: Yes, at least most bigger searchengines have such places to add your url

@tek: AFAIK yes. At least other Servers have problems with executing files within the path of the url it seems.

@joey: hmm, my hack just displays the normal thread/forums. If the cpms has different db tables for it's content it won't be displayed of course

@TCB: sorry, there are some serverconfigurations where the archive doesn't work. I don't know exactly why, but it is so...

[TCB]

I have managed to get the original vBulletin to work with 3.0.3 on a server with php as CGI. I have copied to archive files from 3.0.1 over the new archive files (3.0.3) and edited the global.php and index.php files according to this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...hlight=archive

Thanks for your hack and help though

[MetalMilitia]

If its already been asked, you can point me to the post number.

Let's say I wanted to use this for an overall site map. What would I have to do in order to have this work in an alternate, non-forums directory.

Rather than having /forums/sitemap/ how could I get it to pull the info from the forums if it were in my main dir and just /sitemap/

Thank you in advance.

MaTT