UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback URL format here, is it a 6.4 thing?

How come some pages here are of the forum script.php?title=value, others script.php/title/value ?

I believe that is due to Joshpet's spider mod.

It's Josh's mod all right Josh be very smart.

Yup - it's a search engine friendly thing.

Yep, guaranteed to get a kajillion listings in the major search engines. Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration but I am well over a thousand and the bots are always all over my site.

How do you do that Josh? Do you use an .htaccess file to rewrite the urls?

No my mod does not use mod rewrite - it alters the URLs directly.

Most servers allow you to append a random path to an executable script... i.e. if your script is called showflat.php, you can call showflat.php/other/path/stuff.

The extra path bits get put into an environmental variable called PATH_INFO. That can then be read and split to figure out what page was called.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with IIS servers.

[]JoshPet said:
No my mod does not use mod rewrite - it alters the URLs directly. [/]

What impact does this mod have on bandwidth? Also, my forum gets crawled like crazy now (extra bandwidth) because I have Google adsence ads on it.

I have found that it's not that big of an impact, I also run the Google adsense but have learned that they don't index your site from what I can tell, best way to tell is to use the Online Users Mod and it will show you where your users are coming from in the Who's Online page. It's for version 6.4 but maybe you can get it to work for 6.2.3?

After adding Josh's mod my traffic sky rocketed and I am getting more people registering than ever now.

There is the Online Users Mod for 6.4, but there is an earlier version floating around somewhere. I have it installed on 6.3.2.

[]Charles_Capps said:
Unfortunately, this doesn't work with IIS servers. [/]

Oh yes it does but not by default, if you run the following two scripts it should work just fine:

adsutil set w3svc/1/AllowPathInfoForScriptMappings True

You will need to change the /1/ to the value of the site you what to use it for or:

adsutil set w3svc/AllowPathInfoForScriptMappings True

will set if as defaut for all sites.

Aha! Excellent tip.

Is there any GUI switch for that? It's easier to provide instructions to reluctant hosts when it doesn't involve the command line...

Also, how does one determine the site number?

gui switch there isnt

the site number can be easily identified in the top line of the sites log file.

Where can I find a simple example of doing this?

Should I look into the spider mod and just find it there?

Thanks.