Advance SEF URLs

[che1959]

This mod sucks, or at the very least the documentation sucks. How can I say that? Well, I installed the mod on my board and there is no trace of where I can access the options. I can't even say that the mod even works because nothing changed when I installed it and after installing it, I can't even find a trace of it ANYWHERE in the menus.

If you are going to make a mod, at least give the link to the control panel to it so that users don't have to spend 30 minutes(as I did) trying to find a seemingly non existent panel.

[SleePy]

Did you find the menu?

In 1.1 and 2.0 it is in Features and Options. Although for 2.0, I really should move it do the modifications section
It does not enable things by default, incase your host doesn't support any of the settings, I wouldn't want to break your forum on installtion of this mod.

[uncajesse]

Did you find the menu?

In 1.1 and 2.0 it is in Features and Options. Although for 2.0, I really should move it do the modifications section
It does not enable things by default, incase your host doesn't support any of the settings, I wouldn't want to break your forum on installtion of this mod.

I installed it just now too, 2.0 Beta 4, and it's not anywhere in Features & Options section.
@_o
And yes, test installation came up OK, no errors.

[SleePy]

Hmm, its installing into the Security and moderation settings on 2.0..

I will need to find time to look into that and fix it.

[crishicks]

After installing the mod , there were no changes made to my Querystring.php .
If I enable the mod I do not get the search friendly urls . I get this

hxxp:www.tattootutorials.com/index.php/board,1.0.html [nonactive]

What do I need to do to my querystring.php file . I tried to follow the manual install instr. but I cant find the code you tell me to look for in the file.
Need some help. Should be a good mod once I get it up .

[crishicks]

BTW using TinyPortal and SMF 1.1.7

[SleePy]

After installing the mod , there were no changes made to my Querystring.php .
If I enable the mod I do not get the search friendly urls . I get this

http://www.tattootutorials.com/index.php/board,1.0.html

What do I need to do to my querystring.php file . I tried to follow the manual install instr. but I cant find the code you tell me to look for in the file.
Need some help. Should be a good mod once I get it up .

That is working then.
This is how SMF does SEF urls and this just alters some things that on some servers may operate such as removing the index.php totally.

[uncajesse]

another cool option would be to decide what index.php is replaced with.  like, something besides a question mark which isn't the most SEO friendly.

A period would work nicely.  Anyways, nice mod.  I've put it onto a few friend's forums already.

[SleePy]

That easily could be done in the code, but as far as making it work is a little more trickier. The server would need to know that name is to actual to go to the index.php.

In which cases, you could even remove the index.php totally if you modify your .htaccess (Only for apache servers) to know to redirect everything that doesn't exist as a file/folder to index.php.

[apadong.net]

i've tried to install this mod to my forum, but nothing hapened.

i use smf 1.1.7 with my own theme and latest tinyportal installed. but even i've changed into  the default one with english language it's still no different. where's the setting menu?

[SleePy]

In Admin -> Features and Options

[F4r4Zm0In]

I am using 2.0 RC1, failed to find the settings for this mod

Tried searching it everywhere (also in admin>features & options)

What's the path to settings ?

[baijianpeng]

I tested this Advanced SEF URLs Mod today with my SMF 2.0 RC1 installation on localhost testing server. It worked very well!

Thanks to the author!

I have several suggestions to improve this Mod, could you please consider to :

1)  copy a .htaccess file if there is no one

By default, SMF does NOT has a .htaccess file in the root folder. Since this Mod needs such a file to work, why not just put it in the package and copy it to the root when installing this Mod?

2) strip the action part from the URL

For example, this Mod may generate URLs containing the word action, why not just strip it out?

3)use dash instead of the comma in the URLs

When enable this Mod and choose to hide index.php, the default topic in SMF has a following URL:

Code Select Expand

http://localhost/smf2/topic,1.0.html

How about change the comma in the URL to a dash? Such as:

Code Select Expand

http://localhost/smf2/topic-1.0.html

If someone like the comma more, can you give us an option in the settings page to choose dash?

Thanks.

[Roke]

Hi there,
I just installed the mod and tried the different options. Result is, that I can't access my Forum anymore. I managed to get to the start page. From there I receive only 404 errors. I just read something about a .htaccess file which is needed but not part of the mod. Would that do the trick?
Here is the link, if it helps to help me:
hxxp:5-elemente.org/Forum/index [nonactive]
Thanks
Roger

[CreatorFFM]

Hi Roke,
Just add this line:

Code Select Expand

$disable_sef = true;
to your "Settings.php" in your forum root directory. Then you will have access again.

Cheers
Dave

[Roke]

Thanks Dave! You made my day...

[BuxarNET]

Than this mod differs from Pretty URLs ?
And what is better?
Excuse for my English

[.Vapor]

Sleepy, compatible with 1.1.9 ?

Ahh...wth...i will see if i can go break my forums and let you know.

[.Vapor]

SMF Version 1.1.9
TP Version 1.0 Beta 4

I get this at install:

1.     Execute Modification     ./Sources/ModSettings.php     Test successful
2.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/QueryString.php    Test failed
3.    Execute Modification    ./Sources/Subs.php    Test successful
4.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/Post.template.php    Test successful
5.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php    Test successful
6.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english_utf8.php    Skipping file

[feras80]

Hello
am running SMF 2.0 RC1-1. it looks like the latest version of advanced SEF is compatible with my current SMF installation. however, i got the following error while trying to install it:
The package you are trying to download or install is either corrupt or not compatible with this version of SMF.
any suggestions?
thank you
Fred