Is it more efficient?

I don't want to pit you guys against Zoints SEO, but since you product has more capabilities, plus support, plus consideration for us lighttpd users, I'm considering switching to vbseo as soon as I move to VB 3.7.

Now, I'm concerned about performance. See, I have 1.5M posts, and 1500 users online average. I've seen your rewrite rules are not in the form

"SEO URL" => showthread.php/$1

but in the form

"SEO URL" => vbseo.php?redirect=$1

This means there is a double processing, ins't it? First, lighttpd must rewrite the url to vbseo.php, then this script must redirect to the real URL... or am I wrong and vbseo.php does not call showthread (or showforum or whatever) but instead is a complete rewrite of those funcionalities?

Also, I'd like to know about the unencrypted version. ¿Is is out there already or it will come as a part of a future release?

Originally Posted by amenadiel

Also, I'd like to know about the unencrypted version. ¿Is is out there already or it will come as a part of a future release?

It's released already.

And I'm using it on my Forums too.

vBSEO has to instruct the web server as to which *local* script to execute to get the requested content. To simplify it, it's just a matter of automatically reconstructing the dynamic link and passing that along to Apache, etc.

Yes, I get that, it seems I didn't explain my point clearly.

Common rewrite would tell .htaccess to understand something as showthread.php?t=$1.

VBSeo rewrite tells .htaccess to tell vbseo.php to redirect the link.

It seems like a two pass redirection, and I'm afraid that would strain the server more than just using .htaccess. (in my case, lighttpd.inc.conf)

Hello,

vbseo "preprocesses" requests since URL formats are fully customizable and that would require .htaccess modification for every instance. Preprocessing code does not take much system resources though.