by SeO » Fri May 02, 2008 4:10 pm
So in the end you want urls without id for forums and members as well as the virtual folder trick ?
example.com/forum-url/
example.com/forum-url/topic-title-txx.html
example.com/member/nickname
etc ...
For groups, id removal is not supported, but you can use group-name-gxx.html instead.
All you need to do is to activate the option in ACP (in the phpBB SEO category).
The option you need for this are, forum id removing, virtual folder, Profiles and groups injection, and Profiles ID removing. Please not though that profile id removing really is meant for when you do only accept alphanumeric characters in your user's nicknames (it's an option in acp), otherwise, keeping the id is safer.
You can have profile url such as :
example.com/nickname-uxx/ if you activate Virtual folder Profiles.
And example.com/nickname-uxx/post/ as well if you activate Common Search and User messages pages rewriting.
All these option implies different settings in the .htaccess, the .htaccess generator (still in acp, phpbb seo cat) will do the work for you, but you'll need to generate it after you have made or updated you settings.
Do not forget that if you go from one type of url to another on a live forum, you most likely need to do something to take care of the redirections required to keep your current indexing.
On a new install, all you need to do is testing, preferably on a local test server, the possibilities offered by the mod until you come up with something you like.