Clean URL's

[Mark]

VERSION 1.2#

This plugin converts your VisioList URl's into more a more readable version:

http://visiolist.com/demo/details/yahoo/

instead of the traditional:

http://visiolist.com/demo/index.php?a=details&u=yahoo

Once installed you can enable clean URL's in the admin panel -> Settings -> Other settings.

Notes:
This plugin requires apache web server with mod_rewrite enabled.

Translations:
If you do a language translation for this plugin, feel to post the file here and we update the plugin zip.

Updates
06.07.2013 - Compability issue with callback plugin fixed
24.11.2013 - Update for VisioList 1.1

 

[Anna]

OK, never really got this to work Even after I have saved the new URLs in menu-manager the new links are not recognized. Whats up?

 

[Bart]

did you also upload the .htaccess file?

(This file has to be uploaded in the main directory of your website)

 

[Mark Barnett]

FYI, if you have a / in your category name, it will crash

 

[Mark Barnett]

Just noticed that my domain already is using a rewrite apparently for stats so it goes to log in for the domain logs

 

[Mark]

Mark, can you tell me what control panel software is your hosting company is using? I know at least 1 other user is on a server where /stats/ is already reserved, I find it silly they would do this but if this software is reasonably popular we might need to change our path to /profile/ or something... otherwise users with that hosting control panel will not be able to use clean urls.

 

[Mark Barnett]

ispCP Omega

 

[Mark]

thanks Mark

 

[Mark Barnett]

Mark, can you tell me what control panel software is your hosting company is using? I know at least 1 other user is on a server where /stats/ is already reserved, I find it silly they would do this but if this software is reasonably popular we might need to change our path to /profile/ or something... otherwise users with that hosting control panel will not be able to use clean urls.

From host
Since the /stats alias is part of the ispCP apache configuration, it would only be possible to change the behaviour by commenting out the appropriate lines in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ispcp.conf , and the working copy (/etc/ispcp/apache2/working/ispcp.conf). If you would like this change to take effect for additional domains you add to the server, the files in /etc/ispcp/apache/parts will have to be edited as well.

 

[Morus]

I'm getting 404 error when activating Clean URL's
.htaccess in place
followed above instruction

still error, any advise?

 

[Basti]

Looks like your server dont support mod_rewrite, which is a requirement. You should ask your host to clarify and if possible enable it

 

[Morus]

it is supporting mod_rewrite

http://faq.1and1.co.uk/server/managed/2.html

 

[Basti]

As stated by 1and1, you maybe need to add this to the top of htaccess
Options -MultiViews

Defenetly a 1and1 thing, i hate them lol. Let us know

 

[Morus]

I found the problem, for all of the people that are using 1and1 please add this:

RewriteBase /

below "RewriteEngine on" so it looks like that:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

 

[Basti]

Good catch, we will put this line into the next release ( commented out ), so anyone having that problem can uncomment this line if needed

 

[Bart]

Could i suggest editing the stats urls a little bit so that they contain the website url as it is a bit ugly and irrelevant is they have the users username and especially if they have more than one site added to their account, example below:


Current:
http://yoursite.com/stats/sitename/
http://yoursite.com/stats/sitename-1/
http://yoursite.com/stats/sitename-2/

Suggested:
http://yoursite.com/stats/sitename.com/
http://yoursite.com/stats/differentname.com/
http://yoursite.com/stats/anothername.com/

Just thought it'd bring this up as i was testing stat pages with one account and creating several listings from that same account, it could screw a little with SEO.

 

[Mark]

this was part of the plan from the beginning but people submitting sub directories (somedomain.com/something/) and other silly URL's liek individual forum threads.... complicated the URL structure and starts to require some serious workarounds for things like screenshot paths etc.


BUT in version 1.0 we have the plan to allow the creation of sub users with whatever username they choose, this would give a more unique URL slug. Though the effects of keywords in the URL beyond the domain name seem to be quite negligible from my personal experience.

thanks for the feedback though, this issue will be addressed to a hopefully satisfactory extent in 1.0

 

[Bart]

possibly have something where a user can register normally on our site (without having to input site details), then have the option of creating sub accounts for their sites which will count towards the amount of members as possibly in the future i can see VL having social addons (hint hint)

 

[Mark]

thats an idea we have been kicking around for a couple years, I have coded it already for the old platform and plan on moving it to VL at some point but its a pretty major change, glad to see there is still some enthusiasm for this. Who knows maybe we can make this feature happen sooner than later

 

[Basti]

If you use this plugin and updated to VisioList 0.9 it is required to reupload this plugin ( dont delete, just reupload ). This is because of the change on the statistics page.
That is if you havent already replaced it with the update bundle