Module: Search Engine Friendly URL's

Still does not work in the PM inbox.

www.iloveqatar.net/forum

The url to view a pm looks like this

[iloveqatar.net] and gives an error

Cool idea. Having mod_rewrite functionality pretty much is a must these days...

One little annoyance, do all the URL's have to be missing the trailing slash?

I know its extremely minor, but its been driving me crazy :-).

I'll have to see if I can hack the code to fix it.

Thanks,
dlogan

Can you explain why it drives you crazy and why you see it at something that needs a fix?

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Embed Images dosent work when used with serf friendly URLs anybody got a fix

It doesn't work.
When .htaccess file was edited as instruction, it shows "internal error".

In that case, your hosting provider probably does not allow you to create rewrite rules in your own .htaccess files. Contact your hosting provider and ask them if they can allow the features that you need from this module's .htaccess.

Another option could be that you uploaded the .htaccess, but without enough permissions for the webserver to read the file. This is less likely than the previous option, because normally the permissions of uploaded files are correct for web use. If you normally can upload a PHP file without tinkering with its permissions, then it wouldn't be needed for the .htaccess file either.

Your hosting provider has access to the web server's error logs. They should be able to tell you what the exact problem case is here. If you have access to your error logs yourself, then check them out. There's most probably a hint in there about the cause of this internal server error.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Hi,
When I try to send a PM from within the user Control Panel to a friend I receive the following error message: Fatal error: Illegal page requested: send/folder_id=/to_id=2/pm_id=2 in ...

I have SEF module installed (last version).

Any help, please?

Thanks.

Is there any technical reason why this can't be implemented without the dependency on Apache mod_rewrite? I'd like to hear from someone more knowledgeable about Phorum's internals before I try hacking it myself.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2009 01:14AM by Daed Lee.

Without mod_rewite, you could only produce less friendly URLs looking like:

www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php/friendly/part/goes/here

so with the index.php in between. The only way to get rid of this, is URL rewriting where

www.yoursite.com/forum/friendly/part/goes/here

gets rewritten to the above URL internally.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Actually, sorry, what I really meant to ask is if it was possible to simplify the rules above so that essentially one file handles the URL routing. Something like the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I'm looking to integrate Phorum into an existing site that already has something similar and I'd like to avoid adding additional rewrite rules if possible. Ideally, I'd have URLs that look like the following:

domain.com/forums/forum_name/topic#post_id

This is similar to how SimplePress handles URLs. Is it possible to accomplish something like that with a Phorum module?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2009 05:22PM by Daed Lee.