Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

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Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« on: November 25, 2006, 12:23:26 »

Hi,

I discovered a lot of webhosts what are not working with Seo4SMF and with "Search engine friendly URLs" SMF options.
To see if your site is compatible with this options just enable "Search engine friendly URLs" from "Features and Options" from your SMF Admin Area. If your urls will look like http://domain.com/topic,1.0.html then all is ok. If is looking like http://domain.com/index.php?topic=1.0 then it will not work.

Why is not working ?

Are 2 possibilities :

1. Your webhost had changed the name of the webserver. To work the webserver need to be APACHE !!!
How to see what webserver is running ?

Code:

telnet yourhost.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.0 <-- press enter twice

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:04:30 GMT
Server: Apache 2.0.54 PHP/4.4.4-1
Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:33:48 GMT
ETag: "1b183db-b2c-451b348c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2860
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

If Server: is Apache then all is ok. Anyway I see several host what are reporting WebserverX or whatever ...

2. Your host have php installed as cgi and not like module for apache. SMF is checking if you have ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') ==1 and if is not then you cannot run Seo4SMF or "Search engine friendly URLs". I didn't check this in SMF sources to see why SMF need that option. Anyway if I remove this options it seems SMF is working well.

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2006, 23:44:56 »

Quote from: TheGodFather on November 28, 2006, 03:34:57

It's not on. Because your host is using PHP-CGI. SMF doesn't like php-cgi and is disabling "Search engine friendly URLs" from your admin area.

SMF is checking if you have ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') ==1 and if is not then you cannot run Seo4SMF or "Search engine friendly URLs"

To workaround this problem just look in QueryString.php after this line

Code:

if (!empty($modSettings['queryless_urls']) && (!$context['server']['is_cgi'] || @ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 1) && $context['server']['is_apache'])

and replace with

Code:

if (!empty($modSettings['queryless_urls']) && ($context['server']['is_cgi'] || @ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 1) && $context['server']['is_apache'])

Test and see if is working ... just remember to backup your files before any modification.

Regards

I just wanted to bring special attention to your thread about QueryString.php

I changed QueryString.php according to your instructions and, additionally, I have edited my php.ini to include:

Code:

cgi.fix_pathinfo="1"

I haven't installed this mod again, yet.. I'll install it when I have more time.


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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2006, 01:03:56 »

Not all the people have access to their php.ini file. Anyway is more normal to edit php.ini than changeing the sources.

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2006, 14:33:41 »

my php is installed as a cgi-mod. Isn't there any way to use this mod?


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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2006, 15:14:21 »

Read this message http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo-4-smf/i-have-a-big-bug-t837.0.html;msg4679#msg4679

I installed this mod in several servers with php_cgi and is working. If you have access to php.ini try to set cgi.fix_pathinfo.

Anyway if you don't have access just try my modification from above url.

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2006, 16:11:13 »

I changed that [is_apache] stuff now my url look like topic123,0.html but mod does not work. I have a reseller account , I don't have a permission to edit cgi path stuff


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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2006, 16:27:33 »

From what point of view is not working ? Is enabled ? Just send me a link from you site.

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2006, 16:33:02 »

For example my urls now look like
http://www.domain.tld/index.php/board,17.0.html

But mod should convert them in to
http://www.domain.tld/music

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2006, 16:44:46 »

Did you enable the mod from seo4smf admin panel ?

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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2006, 16:55:06 »

yep but now 404 error code appears.


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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2006, 17:01:59 »

Did you edit your .htaccess correctly ?


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Re: Testing your site to see if seo4smf is working for you

« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2006, 17:03:56 »

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^topic=([0-9]*).([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ seo4smf-redirect.php?t=%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^board=([0-9]*).([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ seo4smf-redirect.php?b=%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=profile;u=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ seo4smf-redirect.php?u=%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ seo4smf-redirect.php?p=%1 [R=301,L]

#Rewrite Old urls
RewriteRule ^index.php/board,(.*).html seo4smf-redirect.php?b=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php/board,(.*).html;(.*) seo4smf-redirect.php?b=$1&o=$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index.php/topic,(.*).html seo4smf-redirect.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php/topic,(.*).html;(.*) seo4smf-redirect.php?t=$1&o=$2 [R=301,L]

#New board URL's
RewriteRule ^(.*)-b([0-9]*).([0-9]*)/;(.*) index.php?dummy=1&board=$2.$3&$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-b([0-9]*).([0-9]*)/ index.php?dummy=1&board=$2.$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-b([0-9]*).([0-9]) index.php?dummy=1&board=$2.$3 [L]

#New topic URL's
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t([0-9]*).([0-9]*).html;((\?:from|msg|new)[0-9]*);(.*)$ index.php?dummy=1&topic=$2.$4&$5 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t([0-9]*).([0-9]*).html;((\?:from|msg|new)[0-9]*) index.php?dummy=1&topic=$2.$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t([0-9]*).([0-9]*).html;(.*)$ index.php?dummy=1&topic=$2.$3&$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t([0-9]*).([0-9]*).html index.php?dummy=1&topic=$2.$3 [L]

#New profiles URL's
RewriteRule ^(.*)-u([0-9]*).html;sa,(.*);start,([0-9]*)$ index.php?dummy=1&action=profile;u=$2;sa=$3;start=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-u([0-9]*).html;sa,(.*)$ index.php?dummy=1&action=profile;u=$2;sa=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-u([0-9]*).html index.php?dummy=1&action=profile;u=$2 [L]

#New Tinyportal Articles URL's
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p([0-9]*).html index.php?dummy=1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule sitemap.xml sitemaps.php [L]
RewriteRule urllist.txt urllist.php [L]

my .htaccess is this.