vBSEO with APC and IONCUBE

After being referred to this thread Zend vs. IonCube
and reading the comments regarding the benefits of APC with vBulletin plus the well written comments of the benefits of IonCube, I decided to pull my zend optimizer install, install APC and load IonCube in the php.ini.

That is done and the server is crusing along with the the numbers for load maybe one tenth higher, sometimes about 1.2 to 1.5 tenths higher. But that seems to be spikes, it may not be an increase in load. Page views are fast and crisp.

So that settled, I will be installing the IonCube version of vBSEO. However, I notice that vBSEO comes with the runtime loaders for IonCube which as of now, I'm under the impression I won't need and there is a performance gain by using the php.ini implementation of the IonCube loaders.

So my question is, can I leave the Iocube folder out when I do my upload? I don't want to assume anything, I just want to be sure the code won't try and load the runtime version of the IonCube .so file by default and will just use the currently running php.ini defined IonCube loaders instead.

On another note, the test file, as noted in other threads, thinks it finds IonCube installed even if it's not actually there. Just a heads up.

Thanks,

Greg

Yes, if you have ionCube installed via PHP.INI you can skip uploading the ioncube directory that is included.

I do that. I have Ioncube loaded in php.ini and do not upload the folder

Thanks for the replies. I think I'm ready to do my forum upgrade now. I'm so anal about this stuff, I may run out of gas and have to do the vBSEO install tomorrow. I check and double check and compare and research to a fault sometimes.

One thing I have learned with vBSEO installs is to not upload the htaccess or turn it on untill after I have setup the options in vbseocp.php. Then your site is only down for a minute or so and you don't have to worry about changing link structure after.

Very good, I did see that you posted that in another thread IIRC. I'm grateful for the advice. The more I can learn in advance, the smoother I would think things will go. I'm taking a big bite here.

Thanks

Also consider that you have an unlimited number of options available for you link stucture. Avoid doing what many of of have done and put plenty of thought into how you want your url's to be structured. vbseo comes with two options, the stock option, and the url's that are on the site here.

If there is ever a chance that you will change your forum names, I would definately go with vbseo.com's settings, or something similar.

The last thing you want to do is get it set up, then 3 months later decided you dont like the url structure and change it.

Thanks Mike. I always tell people, choose wisely. So time to follow that advice myself.

One of the things I was going to do was change my forum folder name from forums to motorcycle-forum. So I got to thinking of that last night. Of course I was going to use a 301 to allow the move to propagate in the SEs, however now I am wonder if I waited too long and will have problems now.

I'm not a mod-rewrite expert, though I do use it often, but I have been pondering since last night the best way to do this and add vBSEo at the same time.

I would get verification on this, as I am pretty much a novice myself, but I think you will be ok if you put the code below in your root .htaccess.

PHP Code:

RewriteRule forums/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/motorcycle-forum/$1 [L,R=301] 


If you are currently using the dymanic vbulletin url's, I think vbseo will still redirect the old content properly at that point, I would get verification on that though.

I changed my folder from /forum to /nfl a while back because I had been having a long history of problems getting indexed and I wanted to use a keyword in the URL. Given a chance to go back, I would have probably just left it the way it was. I don't think it really helps in terms of google.

Need someone that knows this stuff better than me to verify that this will work though.

Originally Posted by Mike

I changed my folder from /forum to /nfl a while back because I had been having a long history of problems getting indexed and I wanted to use a keyword in the URL. Given a chance to go back, I would have probably just left it the way it was. I don't think it really helps in terms of google.

That is my main reason for wanting to do this, the keyword. I do have the impression that it will help, but I can't say I know it will for x reason. My experience tells me it will.

The way you suggest I do it combined with the new sitemaps and vBSEO in one shot makes me think this is the best way to pull it off. My concern is if it will interfere with vBSEO or tick of the SE since there will then be two, or more, redirects. One from forums to motorcycle-forum and then another to the new vBSEO URL. But again, with the sitemap, I'm thinking G will get it.

So in any event, this is certainly good discussion and I appreciate your input.

I would get verification on this, as I am pretty much a novice myself, but I think you will be ok if you put the code below in your root .htaccess.

Yes, this rewrite rules is correct. "RewriteEngine on" line should be also added at the top of .htaccess to enable mod_rewrite directives.