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greyw
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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Hello,
I installed your SEO mod on my phpbb 3.0 RC4;
It works fine as url rewriting but when surfing forums I loose the theme!!
The mod I installed is 0.2.0RC3;
My forum is 3.0 RC 4;
I'm using it on a Etech template;
it's something like that:
The forum home page looks fine;
If I enter a forum, I loose the whole theme (no background and colors);
If I enter a topic it works again fine.
Something goes wrong in forum view:
Probably is a relative path issue; I added the seo_base_href tag but nothing happens...
Seems like if the theme folder is not recognized (while imageset works fine)
Could someone rescue me???
Thanks very much. |
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SeO
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greyw
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Thanks!
I'll try it out instantly!!
I'll let you know.  |
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greyw
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Bingo!!! 
All works fine! Also with Etech template.
If someone needs some feedbacks I'm here!
Thanks. |
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greyw
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Please, an advice:
I'm getting forum urls as:
-www.forumboard.com/this-forum-f14/
and when I enter a topic it simply becomes:
-www.forumboard.com/this-topic-t1.html
I would get rid of that suffix (such as f14, t1...) and get topic urls as:
-www.forumboard.com/this-forum/this-topic.html
I already tried by changing the setting in the phpbb_seo control panel in forum url management section, but it doesn't work (seems like if editing is not allowed, not possible to change the options...) 
How to proceed?? |
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dcz
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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It could be because you did not CHMOD the phpbb_seo/cache/ folder to 0777.
What do you see under :
while browsing phpbb_seo.php ?
Then, you'll need to set the phpbb_seo class option right. To get the url you want, you should set :
Virtual Folder to YES
Forum URL caching to YES
Forum ID Removing to YES
Be careful, changing these require a new .htaccess, so do not forget to update it.
And then set up your forum's urls, because they won't get rid of IDS before they have a cached entry. |
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greyw
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Cache file status:
| Quote: | The cache folder configured is : /home/user/public_html/forum/phpbb_seo/cache/
The cache folder was successfully found.
The cache folder is writable. |
| Quote: | Then, you'll need to set the phpbb_seo class option right. To get the url you want, you should set :
Virtual Folder to YES
Forum URL caching to YES
Forum ID Removing to YES |
Not possible to set up forum ID removing on "yes".
| Quote: | | And then set up your forum's urls, because they won't get rid of IDS before they have a cached entry. |
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karthik
Joined: 23 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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| But won't removing the topic ID and the forum ID create problems if we change the URLs by any chance? Also, if someone makes a post with the same topic, your forum could crash! Its best to keep one unique portion in the URL, in this case, the topic and forum IDs in my honest opinion, maybe dcz could clarify? |
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greyw
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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| ...Anyone...? |
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SeO
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Take a look at the demo : http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net
Topic always keep IDs, so all this only concern forum URLs.
Then, you cannot set the remove id option if you do not cache your urls, as well as you need to edit the forum URLs to actually see them without ID.
Take your time to test because with this option, you won't be able to change each forum URL every other day. |
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greyw
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karthik
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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dcz, on a related note, is it better SEO to keep the virtual folders or without?
Personally, my opinion is that keeping the virtual folder adds an extra level to the hierarchy and google tends to give them less importance? So, although the folder adds some keywords to the URL, its a net negative effect? |
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greyw
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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Ok. I done some tests:
Finally I got my url,but I came back to the issue I posted for:
Theme is totally missing!!!
In add I have some cached entries I'm not able to modify...
dcz wrote that:
| Quote: | | And then set up your forum's urls, because they won't get rid of IDS before they have a cached entry. |
what does exactly mean? |
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dcz
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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| greyw wrote: |
Theme is totally missing!!!
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You need to apply the template code change for all your templates, especially the one on overall_header.html :
| Code: | #
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
<head>
#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD]------------------------------------------
#
{SEO_BASE_HREF} |
And then clear you forum's cache.
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| Quote: | | And then set up your forum's urls, because they won't get rid of IDS before they have a cached entry. |
what does exactly mean? |
It means that you need to use the Forum URL management tool to update your forum URLs.
About the virtual folder trick, as you said, it adds some interesting keywords in topic URL, since they are chosen by the admin, but they as well add more folder to you site (since bit won't see the difference between true folder and virtual ones).
So, I don't think it can be really harmful, but for sure it is more interesting on big boards, with many topics in each forums.
It can be compared to running many phpBB installation SEO wise and will always help out on the long run IMHO.
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greyw
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Strange issue: No theme!!! |
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already tried up adding seo_base_href and deleting forum cache:
nothing changes.
In add forum url management tool doesn't work; it only shows cached urls but cannot change them... |
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