SimpleSEF 2.0 (SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0)

[SlammedDime]

Rather than changing the folders around (which will work), you can also rewrite the name of the downloads action.  Say, 'files' instead... so yoursite.com/files will actually point to yoursite.com/index.php?action=downloads.

Masterd - are you still having a problem with redirection loops?  Are there any *.core files in your SMF directory?

[SlammedDime]

Updated mod on modsite to latest version supporting RC5

[grafitus]

Finally! I'll translate SimleSEF 2.0 to Turkish.

[tabletsdroid]

i have deleted any trace of prettyURLS including in the .htaccess file but it still refuses to enable when ticking the box "Enable SimpleSEF" - I have contacted my host and they assure me that mod_rewrite is enabled.

Any ideas? thanks

[tabletsdroid]

OK I have simpleSEF working now but the logo of my site gets lost anywhere but the index and admin page. Any ideas?

thanks

[SlammedDime]

Without a link to your site, I wouldn't be able to give you an ideas...

[rölyef]

Very nice mod.. Thank you.
Pretty URLs to Simple SEF converter from my need.

[All Colours Sam]

Very nice mod.. Thank you.
Pretty URLs to Simple SEF converter from my need.

You don't really need a converter, you can just uninstall pretty urls and then install simpleSEF.

[rölyef]

How may make old links indexed?

[All Colours Sam]

The old links tha pretty urls made will not longer work and google or any other search engine will just dismiss them, after you install simpleSEF the new links are going to be indexed, it just take time thats all.

[rölyef]

Thank you. Simple SEF would like to use for better performance, but search engines do not want to get lost.

[SlammedDime]

I can look into doing some sort of converter... I've thought about it for some time, but I've never had the patience to install PrettyUrls and test it out...

[cmic]

Hey!

Looks like a smooth mod if I can only figure out how to get it going... 

Edit:

Ok. Here's what I figured out maybe it'll help others:

If its not working for you..

1. You need to access the server from your cpanel not your ftp client (I was using fire ftp and it wasn't showing certain files) to make sure if you have the .htaccess file.

2. For people not sure of how to make an .htaccess file: you make it in notepad (windows) and when saving it make sure you select 'save as type' "all files".  save it NOT as a text
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this is what I figured out..... unfortunately I got a 404 when trying to click on anything on the forum.... The Home tab was working and when I clicked other things it redirected to a 404 page......but in the address bar the simplesef was working.


I think it may be because its not sure where the root folder is???

Edit: ..A few hours later...


I got it to work. Not sure how, but this is what I tried:

I uninstalled the "remove index.php from url package"

Then I installed the simple sef package and got a 404 error instantly.

so I went and uninstalled the .htaccess via fireftp (In the menu there is a display hidden files) because I was going to uninstall the package....then boom it works!

so far so good.

[wickedgood]

Was checking Google Webmaster tools today and noticed my sitemap was missing. It had been working fine a few days ago.

Clicked sitemap link from our site and it looks good. Click on XML and get:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://uscleanersnetwork.com/smf/sitemap/xml./
Line Number 1, Column 1:

Works fine if I disable SEF.

Where do I need to look to fix this?

[SlammedDime]

wicked - it's *possible* that SimpleSEF is needing to use too much memory to load up all of the URL's in the sitemap... try decreasing the number of topics to display in the xml sitemap in the Sitemap settings.

[wickedgood]

Thanks for the tip.

That took care of the issue. 

[Biology Forums]

Is this better than PrettyUrls?

[SlammedDime]

That's pretty subjective, and of course I'm going to say yes... this mod doesn't cache anything in the database, so the database size won't increase due to more and more topics/boards... there are lots of people that seem to have problems with Pretty Urls and getting 404's and have to disable something or another in the mod to get it to work, this mod makes zero code changes to SMF to work (on SMF 2) so it won't interfere with upgrades, this mod supports rewriting actions (so instead of action=register, it could be changed to action=signup, or this is useful for foreign language boards that might want to use names for actions in their own language, which would normally require editing SMF's sources) and ignoring actions when rewriting.

[wickedgood]

I've used both Pretty URLs and Simple SEF.

Liking the Simple SEF better.

Less modifications to files and less issues.

[feline]

wicked - it's *possible* that SimpleSEF is needing to use too much memory to load up all of the URL's in the sitemap... try decreasing the number of topics to display in the xml sitemap in the Sitemap settings.

It's need not to mutch memory, the execution time is to long if you have many topics...
I have made a small modification in the Sitemap extension, to call the SEF engine directly. The execution time is faster and this save (caching) also the converted urls.