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To test if RewriteEngine is available in your server add the following lines to your .htaccess file:



After that point your browser tohttp://www.yourdomain.com/testrewrite.html

You should get your index page.

tms_hide:

You are right!
I forgot to include the RewriteEngine on line
I uploaded a corrected version to my server.

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Shivaji, I didn't say it requires 2.06 to work, I said I tested it on 2.06, and I don't think 2.05 would be too different to 2.06, so maybe you can test it without upgrading.

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Thanks!

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I just found XOOPS four days ago and I really like the way it works, lightning fast and it is so intuitive. I'm not using it as much as I would like because I would need a multisites CMS

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I'll try as soon as I have a few minutes available

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You're welcome!

Catalin:

Just to be clear, for this hack to work, it requires Apache to be compiled with the RewriteEngine module.

If this is not your case, check to make sure you uploaded/appended the .htaccess file I included.

I can help you to get the hack working, just let me know the next time you try

This is a hack I'm using on my sites to convert XOOPS urls into shorter
urls which can be indexed by Search Engines.

I've found other hacks that do the same but I didn't like the way the worked
because I haven't had good results with urls within deep directorys like:

http://www.domain.com/modules/news/article/1/arg1/arg2

In my experience, some Search Engines (Google for example) didn't like
to crawl pages so "deep" within the site.

This hack uses simpler and shorter urls, for example, instead of

http://www.domain.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1279
or
http://www.domain.com/modules/news/article/storyid/1279
you could have:
http://www.domain.com/article1279.html

Right now it shortens urls for the following modules:
News
Userinfo
Submit
Archive
Sections
Xoopspartners

I think those are the more important parts from a XOOPS powered site.
It has been tested on my sites which are being powered by XOOPS 2.06, it
*should* work with other versions too.

You can download it from:
http://www.wtmmail.com/XoopsShortUrls/ShortURLs_0.1_for_Xoops.zip

How to install it?
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Installation is simple:

1) Upload this two files to your XOOPS root dir:
- loadpage.php
- xoops_shorturls.php
2) Modify your .htaccess file, the one you have in your XOOPS root dir (if any)
and add the contents of the included .htaccess file. If you don't have one, just upload the one I provided.

3) In the XOOPS root dir, there is a file named mainfile.php
Open it and add the following line just after the disclaimer (line 27 for
Xoops 2.06):

include "xoops_shorturls.php";

Save mainfile.php and upload it to your server.

IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
You have to edit the mainfile.php that is in your server, not the one that
originally comes with you Xoops, as this file is changed after installation.


After this, open your site. You should have ShorUrls for some of the modules.
I'll be adding support for other modules as I see fit. Please report any errors
or difficulties you may have to this post.