help:removing or editing larsneo shorturls

[auday1982]

hello guys
this s my first post
no url admins ...hehehe
running phpbb2 plus and website in arabic ...when i turned the friendly url on (use larsneo mod ) it created good urls for topics but not for categories and forums

the reason is that arabic language s not so search engine friendly and it doesnt work for the directories/files urls ...
example of the new urls
forums/forum10,%E3ae%CA%CF%EC-%C7%E1%E3%E1%C7%CD%D9%C7%CA-%E6%C7%E1%C7%D3%CA%DD%D3%C7%D1%C7%CA.html

i want to edit this and make it forum10.html nothing else ..no forum tittle or category tittle ..

or remove it and install the simple seo from here ..i liked that it becomes forumc3.html and forum10.html topic32.html and topic32-13.html

xx yy only and no name because they are in arabic

please help and i will appritiate whtever u do for us
thanks
auday al iraqi

[dcz]

And welcome

Actually, you came to the right place

The phpBB SEO simple mod rewrite will fit any char-set, as it' not injecting any title in urls.

But, we have developed an even better solution, at least for some web site using non Latin char-set, but not always.

For example http://forum.persia-cms.com/ is using the advanced mod rewrite with just a simple code change to only allow the eventual Latin char set in title to be injected in URLs. So this is mostly useful for technical web site, as many time they'll use some technical Latin char-set words, like here http://forum.persia-cms.com/persia-cms-vf1.html
And if a title does not contain any Latin char-set word, then it's rewritten statically : http://forum.persia-cms.com/topic-vt389.html

So it's up to you, if you feel your forum and topic titles are likely to be often partly using Latin char-set words, it can be interesting.
You have as well the choice between all the phpBB SEO mod Rewrites, the mixed one could allow you to use some Latin char-set words in your forums urls, and always keep a static one for topics.

And, last thing, in the above example, the delimiters are the older ones, "-vt" and now it's only "-t"

If you're interested with the trick with non Latin char-set, please tell me, I'll tell you what is the extra step to do this

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[auday1982]

hello
thanks man ..ur answered half of my question perfectly, now i have an idea wht to do ...thanks alot ..i downloaded ur mod and it s one step away from being used

but what about larsneo mod which s installed by the phpbb plus team and i dont know wht to do with it

how to uninstall it ...i found this
file admin/admin_plus.php

[dcz]

Well, the principle is the same as per every type of migration, you should fully uninstall the original mod (to do this, just take a look the original install and do it reverse), but keep the old rewriterules up and running, for the zero dupe to do its job.

First step is to choose the mod rewrite you want to install, and then, to start a topic in the mod rewrite you'll be using forum, and I'll tell you what to do and will provide support for this.
Take your time, migrating is easy but must be done properly.

Here is an example of a member migrating from the able2know mod rewrite to the phpBB SEO Advanced one.
General steps will be the same, except you do not deal with able2know mod.

Just start a similar thread for the SEO url V2 mod, and I'll help you out

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