vBulletin in HTML?

I recently purchased a copy of VBSEO for one of my forums and it seems to be working OK.

My question is, I have another vBulletin forum that is in html instead of the php version and I was wondering if VBSEO will work as well on the html forum?

Thanks,

~VegasMack

Hello VegasMack,

currently vBSEO will not work directly with html-package of vB. There is a workaround though:
1. To install a .php-extensions version of vB instead of .html one.
2. Install vBSEO and configure new URLs
3. To redirect the old-styled URLs (like forumdisplay.html?f=xx) to new SEO URLs, just add one more rewrite rule in .htaccess:

RewriteRule (\w+)\.html $1.php

We will look to implement the native support of html package in vBSEO.
Thank you for the request!

So if I understand you correctly, I just down load the php version of vBulletin and install it over my current html forum?


~VegasMack

I just had a look at the "html version" of vBulletin and it looks like switching to "php version" may be a harder task than just uploading of new files - all templates have ".html" links hardcoded inside. May be this topic was covered at vb.com by someone.

ps. and as I mentioned, we will look for "html version" support in vBSEO too.

Hi,

Has a vBSEO for html been created yet?

Thanks,

~VegasMack

Hello Mack,

yes, the beta version of vBSEO for html vB package will be available after the next stable vBSEO version is released.

Hi Oleg,

Any idea as to how much longer?

Thanks,

Mack

Is the html version ready yet?

Thanks,

~VegasMack

It is not fully tested yet, but now there is an option to use vBSEO for html packages as well. It can be manually set in config_vbseo.php:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_VB_EXT',             'html');