Redirects of moved topics etc

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

Hi,

if a topic is moved to another forum, the link is not "SEO" translated Sad

Shouldn't matter, because its redirected to the SEO url when clicked, but its an extra redirect...

When a topic is moved to another forum, the "old link" is not redirected, but it gives a "not found"...

Is it possible to get a no-index no-follow somehow on the not found pages?

thanks

SeO · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: Re: Redirects of moved topics etc

mmm.

I do not have this bug : http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/demo-en/

See the "moved topic", the link is rewritten directly with the new id including the new forum url bit in our case, since on the demo board virtual folder is activated.

Could you elaborate a bit more on this one for me to be able to reproduce the bug if any ?

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

Look here:

http://balipod.com/bali-expat-forum-f2/

You will find a few links to posts, and no SEO'd urls for those.

I have not changed anything in the premodded version...

besides the template....

SeO

All right, I could reproduce this "bug", but only for active topic listing and with forum cache deactivated so far.
The forum title/url is in such case is only available from the cache.

But in your case, it's not an active topic listing so, is forum caching activated on your forum ?

If so, try to activate it, it's faster even if you keep forum id and do not set up personalized forum url as you seem to do.

If not, this mean that it's the topic title not to be available in your case.

Knowing this would help out to investigate further.

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

Of all the options in the SEO admin section, only "Virtual Root" is off.

Url rewriting is set to "Advanced" and Posts Rewriting to "All".

I have installed about 4 seo pre-mod forums, and none of them show the modded url Shocked

in moved topics.

I have checked if the correct code is present in viewforum.php , and it is.

If I can "debug" or something, to find out where things go wrong, let me know...

I have a few forums you can login to as admin, just let me know...

SeO · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Redirects of moved topics etc

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

I have two environments, Linux and Windows, and both same result.

If I turn "Virtual Folder" off, the url of the moved topic is seo'd, if on, not...

All my installations are conversions from phpBB2, and I used the pre-modded phpbb3 from this site.

SeO · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Redirects of moved topics etc

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

Hmmm

where is the Forum URL Cache located? In the phpBB SEO cache folder?

Nothing much happening there, files are never changed... (Only settings)

Also, the Forum ID Removing setting, does not have any effect on my forums... Keep getting id's. (Not that I ever want to change that again... now...)

bv · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

Just discovered my phpbb_cache.php was not writable, only the folder it was in....

problem solved....

SeO · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Redirects of moved topics etc

All right !

Maybe this is a check to add in the phpBB SEO ACP, even if the case seems pretty rare where you'd properly chmod the cache dir and would not end up with enough right to write again in the file created there.