Hello,

My forums are running on the Lighttpd webserver (instead of Apache). Is it possible to optimize URLs?

If yes, how to do it? Are there some special premodded phpBB3 files for Lighttpd?

Thanks for your help.

Here an article from someone who did install an old version of our phpBB2 mod rewrite on Lighttpd : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/lighttpd- ... rules.html

It should not be too hard to adapt it for the new rewriterules.

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So, I have managed to get Simple mod rewrite to work with Lighttpd

I have used these rewrite rules:

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   url.rewrite = (
   "^/forum([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewforum.php?f=$1",
   "^/forum([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3",
   "^/forum([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4",
   "^/topic([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?f=$2&t=$1",
   "^/post([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?p=$1",
   "^.+-vf([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewforum.php?f=$1",
   "^.+-vt([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2",
   "^.+-vt([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?t=$1",
   "^.+-vt([0-9]+)\.html\?highlight=.*" => "/viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2",
   "^/group([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3",
   "^/group([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1",
   "^/the-team\.html$" => "/memberlist.php?mode=leaders",
   "^/member([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1",
   "^/unanswered\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=unanswered&sr=topics",
   "^/unanswered-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=unanswered&start=$1&sr=topics",
   "^/newposts\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=newposts",
   "^/active-topics\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=active_topics",
   "^/active-topics-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=active_topics&start=$1",
   "^/member([0-9]+)-topics\.html$" => "/search.php?search_id=egosearch",
   "^/member([0-9]+)-posts\.html$" => "/search.php?author_id=$1&sr=posts",
   "^/announces/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3"
   )

You can check the result at my Spore Forums.

In theory, since I do not have any Lighttpd install, you should replace :

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.+-vt

with :

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[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*-t

and :

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.+-vf

with :

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[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*-f

But this is for the advanced mode, rules like :

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   "^/forum([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4",

suggest the simple mode.
And should by the way rather look like :

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   "^/forum([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$3",

start is the third and not the fourth param.

The same kind of var number mismatch occurs in :

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   "^/topic([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?f=$2&t=$1",

which should be :

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   "^/topic([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/viewtopic.php?t=$1",

The forum you linked does not seem to have url rewriting activated right now, but you look pretty close to a working solution with this set of rules.

I have activated the URL rewriting in ACP now, lol.

Now it should work - http://sporeforums.com/

And thanks for tips

Rather looks like you switched to vb :

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.2

Why doing so when phpBB has become such a killer soft ?

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i moved the server and now its lighthttd is there a working httacces for advanced seo url=`?

need still help .its very important!°