Zoints to vBSeo

Dear vBseo Team ,

I've an customer who wanna to install vBSeo in his forum , but he have Zoints SEO he wanna to know the right way to convert from Zoints to vBSeo .
Looking foward to your reply .
Thanks ,

BelaMeaad

I uses ZOINT before vbSEO, too.

In the Support the Team developed the right settings and some more RewriteRules so that old indexed Sites and new ones work perfectly.

Soon I can deactivate the old Zoints one.

Thanks for your reply .
My question was about what the way and what the right setting to convert Zoints to vBSEO i just need the instractions to make everything work well after the change .
Regards ,
Bela-Meaad

Hello,

what was your old .htaccess file?

Hello ,
this the .htaccess
Zoints SEO + vBSEO Sitemap Generator

Options +FollowSymlinks

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Hello,

try to add the following to the new vBSEO .htaccess right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

Code:

RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_\-]*-f([0-9]+)(?:p([0-9]+))?$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=forumdisplay.php&f=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_\-]*-t([0-9]+)(?:p([0-9]+))?$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=showthread.php&t=$1&page=$2 [L]

Hello ,

I try to make as you said edit the .htaccess but it's give me a 500 Internal Server Error
but i find a solution for this issues the zoints change only showthread.php and forumdisplay.php on this way
for forumdisplay.php
[forum_title]-f[forum_id].html
and for showthread.php
[thread_title]-t[thread_id].html
i try to do it in the vBSEO but there are a small problem that the forums titles in in english and non english character the zoints remove the non-english character form the url this what the was searching for it in the vBSeo and i find it but it not work
i try to make the Replace Non-English Characters in URLs? yes but it's still not have nothing i enter to the vbseo_config.php and i find this
// ****** REMOVE NON-ENGLISH CHARSET FROM URLs? ******
// You can define here whether non-english characters should be replaced from urls
// Set this variable to 1 to remove non-english characters form URL's
define('VBSEO_FILTER_FOREIGNCHARS', 1);
I think it will fix my problem but nothing happen and after that i know they are one option in the VbSEO control panel and config_vbseo.php
my problem now is how to remove the non-english character from showtread urls and forumdisplay to make it as zoints seo.

also there are a problem in vBseo when we choose forumtitle or showthread title on custom it takes the full name of the forum title or showtread title but in the zoints it's sets to take 3 words only as this fuction i can't find it in vBSEO so please help me to have the right convert from Zoints SEO to vBSEO

this the option in the Zoints SEO control panel
Number of keywords in the URL 3
As many thread titles are long, it is a good idea to limit the amount of keywords in the url. Enter '0' to disable this feature.



Thanks ,
Bela-Maad

Hello,

my problem now is how to remove the non-english character from showtread urls and forumdisplay to make it as zoints seo.

what is an example URL?

also there are a problem in vBseo when we choose forumtitle or showthread title on custom it takes the full name of the forum title or showtread title but in the zoints it's sets to take 3 words only as this fuction i can't find it in vBSEO so please help me

You can define the maximum number of words in URL in vbseocp (click "+" to expand advanced settings in URL Rewrites section).

for exmple the forum name
General Section - القسم العام
Zoints will make the url
general-section-f72.html
vBSEO will make the url
acub-eruaz-general-section-f72.html

the "acub-eruaz" this the problem how to remove it from link
in the showthread the same problem it's the result of change the arabic words to english.

about the keyword problem it's ok now .

still have one problem

Thanks ,
Bela-Maad

What is the forums URL?