Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs => .htaccess

[MattyAsia]

There is no .htaccess to support the "Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs", so I have one written below, the first 3 are just a little beta bug proofing.

I can not guarantee this is perfect, but it's working so far, if I find any bugs, I'll squish em and edit in an updated version

Download: http://www.phpatlas.com/vBulletin/htaccess

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.6
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

To use this you must have Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs enabled.

To do this...
You need to go to Admin Control Panel then Settings > Options
Server Settings and Optimization Options
Then select Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs in the Friendly URLs section.

UPDATES:
1.6 Added ... Widget bit
1.5 Added ... Options +FollowSymLinks
1.4 Fixed content editing for CMS sections without SEO friendly names

If you get Error 500, check the .htaccess file for any \n hidden anywhere as seems to have appeared for a number of users copying from here, see the quote just below. Make sure what you copy is identical to what you see above.

Well, looks like it's getting munged and the line is not complete:

RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?))'\n
That '\n is appearing when I copy to the .htaccess for some reason.

[gotski]

It doesn't work for me ;(

[MattyAsia]

It doesn't work for me ;(

Did you set vBulletin to use "Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs"?
You need to go to Admin Control Panel then Settings > Options
Help
Server Settings and Optimization Options
Then select Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs in the Friendly URLs section.

[snerd]

No work here either, 500 Internal Server Error

[MattyAsia]

No work here either, 500 Internal Server Error

Have you done rewrites before?
In httpd.conf make sure
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
is
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

then restart apahce.

[sifuhall]

Seems to be working well for me.

Thanks for posting this.

[MattyAsia]

Seems to be working well for me.

Thanks for posting this.

No problem, but keep checking back, I keep finding small issues and updating them, you can tell if yours is up to date via the version number.

[Darkimmortal]

For some reason these don't work on nginx (basic conversions applied obviously) - must be something weird about the regexes :/

[nubian]

Works flawlessly for me on my local environment.
Thanks!

[Yves R.]

Great code, thank you

[AWS]

If you use IIS add

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];

to the top of class_core.php.

[snerd]

I'm on a shared server, but have used vBseo .htaccess for rewriting on old version. This .htaccess just gets the internal server error.

[sifuhall]

check your error logs.

what is the actual error?

[snerd]

check your error logs.

what is the actual error?

Well, looks like it's getting munged and the line is not complete:

RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?))'\n
That '\n is appearing when I copy to the .htaccess for some reason.

[Fr4n-FX]

thx matty asia im testing too