Pretty URLs

[Sir Osis of Liver]

A large part of the problem seems to be that users don't know how to configure the mod correctly for the platform they're running on.  Most of these forums are on shared servers, many with crappy hosts, and the forum owners are clueless.  Maybe you can fine tune the default settings accordingly, or just remove some options that are problematic.

[Aaron10]

Hi, since installing its been working great, however theres one small "glitch" in that the board index is reported to have a "noindex" meta in google webmaster tools. I have this + EhPortal installed on 2.1 RC2, so the URL for board index is mysite.com/forum/ rather than mysite.com/index.php. The noindex error only started happening since installing this mod.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=570918.msg4040578#msg4040578

Not an uncommon problem.

[Gryzor]

Question, triggered by above issue: seo-wise, if one uninstalls the mod, what steps should be taken? Wouldn't ranking tank?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

There's a reverter that's supposed to address that, but don't recommend it, it may cause more damage.  After the mod is uninstalled, site will be reindexed by search engines, doesn't take long.  Mod doesn't uninstall cleanly, you will have to manually clean up .htaccess and your database.

[Gryzor]

Thanks for the reply!

Regarding uninstalling the mod,I think just disabling its functionality through its options works pretty ok...

[guldam]

I had to switch my forum from https://myboards.com [nofollow] to https://www.myboards.com [nofollow]. PrettyUrls breaks links to the various boards by removing the www. If I turn off pretty urls the www is restored.  HELP!

SMF 2.0.15
PrettyUrls 1.0

Steveoh

[guldam]

I had to switch my forum from https://myboards.com [nofollow] to https://www.myboards.com [nofollow]. PrettyUrls breaks links to the various boards by removing the www. If I turn off pretty urls the www is restored.  HELP!

SMF 2.0.15
PrettyUrls 1.0

Steveoh

UPDATE: I fixed the issue by adding this snippet

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<?php require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/SSI.php'); require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-PrettyUrls.php'); updateSettings(array('pretty_root_url' => $boardurl)); pretty_update_filters(); ?> to a new PrettyUrlFix.php file and then running it in my browser.

[vbgamer45]

Yes, that fixes glad that worked for you!

[BARTHEZ]

SMF 2.0.17
PrettyURL 2.1.4b
Errors when installing
    ./Sources/News.php
Find

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if (empty($modSettings['queryless_urls']) || ($context['server']['is_cgi'] && @ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 0 && @get_cfg_var('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 0) || (!$context['server']['is_apache'] && !$context['server']['is_lighttpd']))
return $val;

$val = preg_replace('/^' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '\?((?:board|topic)=[^#"]+)(#[^"]*)?$/e', '\'\' . $scripturl . \'/\' . strtr(\'$1\', \'&;=\', \'//,\') . \'.html$2\'', $val);
Replace

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/*** if (empty($modSettings['queryless_urls']) || ($context['server']['is_cgi'] && @ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 0 && @get_cfg_var('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 0) || (!$context['server']['is_apache'] && !$context['server']['is_lighttpd']))
return $val;

$val = preg_replace('/^' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '\?((?:board|topic)=[^#"]+)(#[^"]*)?$/e', '\'\' . $scripturl . \'/\' . strtr(\'$1\', \'&;=\', \'//,\') . \'.html$2\'', $val); ***/
    ./Sources/QueryString.php
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parse_str(substr(preg_replace('/&(\w+)(?=&|$)/', '&$1=', strtr(preg_replace('~/([^,/]+),~', '/$1=', substr($request, strpos($request, basename($scripturl)) + strlen(basename($scripturl)))), '/', '&')), 1), $temp);
if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && @get_magic_quotes_gpc() != 0 && empty($modSettings['integrate_magic_quotes']))
$temp = $removeMagicQuoteFunction($temp);
$_GET += $temp;
Replace

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if (strpos($request, basename($scripturl)) !== false)
{
parse_str(substr(preg_replace('/&(\w+)(?=&|$)/', '&$1=', strtr(preg_replace('~/([^,/]+),~', '/$1=', substr($request, strpos($request, basename($scripturl)) + strlen(basename($scripturl)))), '/', '&')), 1), $temp);
if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && @get_magic_quotes_gpc() != 0 && empty($modSettings['integrate_magic_quotes']))
$temp = $removeMagicQuoteFunction($temp);
$_GET += $temp;
}

[vbgamer45]

You have it working now?
I didn't get install errors on a new 2.0.17

[BARTHEZ]

Yes I got all the time this error. Maybe I should replace system file responsible for installing mods?

[BARTHEZ]

Any help?

[Xpresskonami]

Anytime i try to upload attachment, I got this error

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 94371840 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4570229 bytes) in /public_html/Sources/PrettyUrls-Filters.php on line 114

[vbgamer45]

If you disable the pretty url filters and upload the attachment does it work?

[Xpresskonami]

If you disable the pretty url filters and upload the attachment does it work?

No I have not disable the pretty url and chk...
If I disable the pretty url, I always have problem with canonical url. And this always cause huge sitemap decrease in Google webmaster tools...

[vbgamer45]

Can you try I just want to see if pretty urls is the cause or not.
You can turn it back on afterwords.

[Xpresskonami]

Can you try I just want to see if pretty urls is the cause or not.
You can turn it back on afterwords.

Yes. I disabled the pretty url and Everything works fine.
No error when I add attachment.

[Xpresskonami]

How can I fix the error please

[vbgamer45]

If you are on SMF 2.0.
Copy this file to Sources folder and see if it helps...