SimpleSEF 2.0 (SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0)

[SlammedDime]

Yes, and no.  Arabic characters are not valid in URLs, only ascii characters and a few special characters.  So this attempts to convert any non-ascii characters into ascii equivilants.

[grafitus]

New version (1.0.2) relased!

[pokerullz]

ty for the update!!!!
Just a questions. Installed everything, enabled the mod , modified the web.config but the links still don't change?!
Why is that? Is it because rewrite mod is not enabled or should I contact host support to find out?

[SAFAD]

Hey When I Activate THis
My SP StandAlone Shows ProbLem Loading

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
    *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
          cookies.

[SAFAD]

Ah
And How Can We Do That ?
I MayHelp

[Arantor]

Since Arabic characters are not valid in URLs, either I replace it with blank spaces, or the closest ASCII equivalent... I believe the latter to be the better option, no?

Correct, because they're not strictly valid in URLs, so no Arabic characters.

[Arantor]

Dime: Seems there's a bug in 1.0.2 with using sa=news in RSS feeds.

hxxp://www.example.com/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;sa=news;board=1 is the URL in question, it's mapped to
hxxp://www.example.com/.xml/news/type,rss2/board-name/

The board name/number part is fine, but it's not accepting the news part of it right

[SlammedDime]

Pete - in the admin panel, click on the [Edit] link for the actions, areas and subactions and add 'news' to the end of the subaction list and see if that gives you the desired result.

SAFAD - what is your site link where you're having the standalone issue?

[Arantor]

Dime: We tried that, still isn't working as intended.

[SlammedDime]

Remove 'news' from the areas list

[Marcus Forsberg]

Remove 'news' from the areas list

That seems to have done it. Thanks.

[SlammedDime]

NP... as the rss feeds don't even use areas, I'll be hardcoding it to skip the area check in the next release, but that should at least fix it for now for ya

[Marcus Forsberg]

Sounds good to me.

* Nas slaps Dime in the direction of SimpleDesk.net

[SlammedDime]

Sounds good to me.

* Nas slaps Dime in the direction of SimpleDesk.net

I know, I was looking at it last night... looks good with my Urls...

[Arantor]

It does look very good, even though I'm well known to not be a fan of SEF in general (because I still believe there isn't an SEO benefit), I won't argue it does look nicer.

I am curious to see how well it'll work with SimpleDesk itself though, haven't had time to try it on a beta build yet but I will...

[SlammedDime]

I would agree that there really isn't an SEO benefit... just nice looking urls.

[Afro]

How does this mod affect sitemap or already indexed urls ?

[SlammedDime]

This mod works perfectly with my sitemap mod, and as for already indexed urls, this mod redirects them with a 301 permanent redirect to their new url which should be supported by most, if not all, search engines.

[Afro]

hmm, i am scared because after uninstalling my pretty URL, Google started from  1 to index my urls again.

I have already installed the mod and i am enabling it now.

edit

webmaster tools

   index.php?action=sitemap;xml     OK    Sitemap    Jan 17, 2010    indexed urls =   0

after enabling the mod. i guess its gonna start from on again . right ?

another issue. though external one. i use facebook connect. with action
url. http://www.afrowall.com/index.php?action=facebook

now this mod changed it to forum/facebook.

that means it wont load. how do i change that ?

[Pawan]

How to create a .htaccess file in forum directory