Going to install the advance version tonight.. I am not testing and i am going to throw it right on. (files backed up)

At any rate, I have read several post and tuts on this mod, but just not sure how to exactly setup my urls..

I want something like this

site.com/category/thread1234.thml
site.com/category/thread5678.html
site.com/category/thread9101.html

As default is that how it formats the urls?

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$phpbb_seo->seo_url['cat'][$cat_id] = $phpbb_seo->format_url($category_rows[$i]['cat_title'], $phpbb_seo->seo_static['cat']);

Just curious if I need to tweak this first or if its going to produce the url format I want, I really want a category folder and then all the threads.html inside each Main category folder..

Hope I explained it right..

Thanks
--Craig

Well I just checked out how this site does it and that exactly how i want to do it.. Folders for each main category..

So I am guessing its set like this by default?

The best would be to first test it live on a local or private server, you'll see directly what will the result be.

Anyway, there is no virtual folder trick with the phpBB2 mods, you can easily have urls like :

example.com/threadxx.html (instaed of the default topicxx.html), but you won't be able to have category-title/threadxx.html.

This is so far a phpBB3 only feature.

Bummer, I really like the cleaning looking url.. hmmm..

Maybe an upgrade is in order, I just haven't had the time to research the upgrade effort..

Thanks for the input..
--Craig

Especially if you where about to change your forum urls implementing mod rewrite, converting to phpBB3 is an option to consider.
This way you'll save a massive redirect since you won't have to first go for phpBB2 urls which does not fully satisfy you and then to the phpBB3 ones that, I'm sure, will. And you won't work too much on phpBB2 before you'll need to work again on phpBB3.

Give a try to our SEO pemod on a local private server, it's worth it to find out about the numerous SEO features included and to define your url standard before you go online for real.

Well after 2 hours of research and getting excited about the possible upgrade.. My template isn't do-able in phpbb3 yet.. He's not sure if he's going to port them right into phpbb3 or to updated them and go from css to xhtml for everything..

Considering looking at new phpbb3 templates, but don't see any as slick as the one I am using now...

Thanks for the help..

Style requires often the most work to convert to phpBB3 but :

Ph1ngering wrote: go from css to xhtml for everything..

You still can work on subsilver2 if you want something closer to subsilver to start with, it's xhtml, but pretty similar to the original subsilver.

My point on this is that this is something you'll have to do to convert, so if you plan to, maybe it's no worth it to work on phpBB2 anymore but rather to start on setting up a new phpBB3 theme.