Rewrite problems with thread titles ending in print

[reborg]

Hi,

I run a unix board, where it is relatively common for people to have question related to printing, however I am now encountering an issue with the url rewrites where a thread which has a title ending in 'print'. Instead of displaying the thread a click on such a link take one to the 'printer friendly'

Can anyone give me a solution or workaround to this?

TIA,
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[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

you should modify your "'Printthread' URL Format" in vbseocp to:
[forum_title]/print-[thread_id]-[thread_title].html

[reborg]

please ignore...problem resolved.

[reborg]

Hello,

you should modify your "'Printthread' URL Format" in vbseocp to:
[forum_title]/print-[thread_id]-[thread_title].html

Thanks Oleg, actually that is not much better in my case. I changed both the print rewites to use "printfriendly" instead of "print" and that is working fine and is safer in my case.

[Keith Cohen]

But then if someone creates a thread with a title that ends with "printfriendly" you'll run into the same issue. Having it before the thread ID will eliminate the problem completely.

[reborg]

1. In 35,196 threads printerfriendly has not happend once ever in a title.
2. Print can just as easily come at the start of a title as the end on my site.

I'm pretty confident that I have the better solution for my situation.

[Keith Cohen]

With putting "print" before the thread id, it won't matter if print shows up ANYWHERE in the title. It's separated from the thread title by the thread ID.

[Keith Cohen]

But, it is a widely accepted practice to disable re-writing for Print Thread anyway, and block printthread.php from search engines by using ROBOTS.TXT, since the Print Thread page can be considered duplicate content.

[reborg]

Both good points I had forgotten about the threadid, and I was thinking it might break google's indexing for a few hundered threads, but of course it won't bacause the printthread won't be used and the existing thread won't get changed in terms of what it is written as; it will still be ....-print.html and the only difference is that it will point to the page I want it to point to.

Ah, well I'll think about it for the next time, I'm happy enough as is for now.

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