Few questions before installing phpBB SEO

Roam · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

Hello,

I'd really like to use phpBB SEO Advanced in my phpBB3 forum, but I'd like to ask few questions first.

I wonder, will URLs like these ones work:
-http://www.site.com/forum/viewforum.php?lang=ru&f=11
-http://www.site.com/forum/?lang=ru
-http://www.site.com/forum/viewtopic.php?lang=ru&f=51&t=71

Will these URLs be redirected to new ones (.html) or they will not work?

Also, are .html URLs generating fully automatically by script or manually?

Thanks.

SeO

Moved since it looks rather related to phpBB3.

So, it depends, if the extra lang variable is added within the phpbb append_sid() function when building the links, then :

-http://www.site.com/forum/viewforum.php?lang=ru&f=11
will be rewritten by default :
-http://www.site.com/forum/forum-url-fxx.html?lang=ru

-http://www.site.com/forum/?lang=ru will stay the same

The extra param will just go at the end of the new url.

You will have to mod the zero duplicate a bit too, for the new param to be allowed, if you do not activate strict mode, it should work directly.

With some work, you could even end up with urls such as :
-http://www.site.com/forum/forum-url/ru/
-http://www.site.com/forum/forum-url/ru/topic-title-txx.html

Playing with the rewritting method in phpbb_seo_class.php.