[How To] Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive

yes, the read write execute IS the chmod setting.666 is read and execute for all 3.

Cool - thanks.

is it better to disable the archive ?

what about statistics with and without it ?

Hello Thompson ,

Please check Why the vBulletin archive is useless and counterproductive

Why not just use the new canonical tag on the archive pages? I would think that solves all issues while leaving pages in place for users.

Following Juan suggestion I have re-enabled the archive.

Why the vBulletin archive is useless and counterproductive

Just wondering now in the sitemap options i have to set YES in Include Archive Pages?

Inside to the robots.txt file i have to remove this 2 lines?

• Disallow: /sitemap/
• Disallow: /archive/

Thanks

I have vB4 and can't find the config_vbseo.php file while trying to disable the archive.

Thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Your config_vbseo.php is in your ./includes/ folder. If it is not writable, than you will need to right click it in your FTP client and change the CHMOD to at least 666.

As for not having a robots file, your website will not have one unless you add it. You should use:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /sitemap/
Disallow: /archive/

vb4 moves this file to vbseo/resources/config.xml.

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't see a CHMOD in the config.xml code. Suggestions? I apologize for you having to hold my hand on this whole thing.

is it this:

<name>VBSEO_ARCHIVE_ORDER_DESC</name>
<value>0</value>
</setti

CHMOD is a a file property on the OS. Ususally you can set this via your FTP client -> right click on file -> file permissions.
You won't find this in the config file.
The config file ITSELF needs to be writable.


You can disable the archive in vb's ACP -> vboptions panel, and then set the vbseo setting for archive to "keep vb's archive settings", and then adjust the sitemap to not include archive pages.

Ok, under permission I get a box like below (except graphically represented). I need to change permission under group and world to 6 and 6?


Mode User Group World
Read x x x
Write x
Execute
Permission 6 4 4

that is 644
you need 666


and when you're done, put it back to 644 (for security)

Originally Posted by meonet

Following Juan suggestion I have re-enabled the archive.

Why the vBulletin archive is useless and counterproductive

Just wondering now in the sitemap options i have to set YES in Include Archive Pages?

Inside to the robots.txt file i have to remove this 2 lines?

• Disallow: /sitemap/
• Disallow: /archive/

Thanks

Bump^^

IF you want your archive to be indexed, then yes, you should remove the version you use in vbseo settings (sitemap/ is default)