Please help me - my board is down. I followed all of the instructions to install the mod to phpbb2 and my home page works and will lead to a forum page but from there topics and post links result in 404s. Any idea what I should check or what might have gone wrong? Thank you!

Nevermind, it's working. I would delete this topic if I could but I can't.

So long as it's here, can somebody please help me figure out how to make all links end in / instead of .html? I've heard according to WC3 that getting rid of file extensions is what the "cool kids" are doing.

I tried replacing '.html' with '\' in the code below in php_seo_class.php and then removing '.html' from the entries in .htaccess, but that just led to broken pages.

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      $this->seo_ext = array('cat' => '.html',
         'forum' => '.html',
         'topic' => '.html',
         'user' => '.html',
         'gz_ext' => '',

I would really appreciate it if somebody could explain to me exactly what to do so that urls end with /

Also, is there any way to get the forum title in the topic urls?

Thanks!

replace :

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         'topic' => '.html',

with :

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         'topic' => '/',

And replace the "\.html" bits with "/" in the topics rewriterules.

There is no way to use the forum url in topic urls with our phpBB2 mods, only phpBB3 will do it.

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Thank you. I did it and it takes me to the correct pages using / but for some reason this breaks my template and no graphics display. Do you have any idea as to how I might fix it? Are there actual advantages to be realized from using / instead of .html in any event?

Also, do I have to make any corresponding changes to the zero duplicate mod that I installed for 301 redirects?

Finally, is it any kind of significant seo disadvantage to not have the forum titles in the topic links because I am using phpbb2 and not phpbb3? I could upgrade to phpbb3 and then use the seo mod, but I've made so many customizations that I'd rather not if it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Thank you!

Ho sorry, I got confused with phpBB3

You probably should think about converting, because in addition to being able to use many more and better SEO mods, you'll be done with a convesion which will now pretty soon be required, since it's about the end of phpbb2.

So you'd better work on phpBB3 IMHO, working on phpBB2 may not be a wise investment in the near future.

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