Question Some Issues

[Captive Reefs]

I just noticed a couple issues I am hoping you can help me with.

First on this thread: http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/basics/wcs-sump-32752/page3.html

When I look at the pagination link at the bottom of the thread, the thread link to go to the "first" page is http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/basics/wcs-and-sump-32752/

But it redirects to this link upon clicking: http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/basics/wcs-sump-32752/


Should it be that way? It seems like an unnecessary rewrite... the "First" link has "and" in the url but the thread url is rewritten without the "and" because of it being a stop word (I assume).


The next issue I noticed is on forum home. My first category is called "Reef Aquarium Setup & Help". The link when I am logged in, looks like this:

http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/reef-aquarium-setup-and-help/

which resolves to a 404 "Page Not Found".

However when I am not logged in, the link for that category is

http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/reef-aquarium-setup-help/

which works... again the "and" stop word seems to be running rogue and not being applied consistently.

 

[Fillip H.]

Confirmed, I can replicate it by using the same title as that thread. This appears to be a conflict between the "normal" rewritten URL and the Canonical URL.

I am working on updating all "reversible" formats (i.e. formats that don't need an ID to resolve the URL) to only flag themselves as reversible if no "id" is present in the format.

To give more details: In v1.0.8, I made a fix to the stopwords code to remove "and" from the list of stopwords in the case of reversible URL formats. This is because a thread called "test & stuff" can't be resolved if the rewritten URL is "test-stuff". It works fine if the rewritten URL is "test-and-stuff".

Once I've confirmed the fix locally, I'll upload it to the release package as well as your site

 

[Captive Reefs]

Awesome thanks!

 

[Fillip H.]

I believe this has now been resolved on your site, I can access the reef-aquarium-and-setup-help (the correct URL) forum without issue now, and there doesn't appear to be any redirects with threads any more.

Please let me know if you experience any new issues, this is the tentative changelog on your site:

• Forum URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no forum_id is present in the URL format
• Announcement URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no announcement_id is present in the URL format
• Blog Entry URLs will now only retain the "and" stopword if no blog_id is present in the URL format
• Blog Category URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no category_id is present in the URL format
• Social Group URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no group_id is present in the URL format
• Social Group Discussion URLs will now only retain the "and" stopword if no discussion_id is present in the URL format
• Album URLs will now only retain the "and" stopword if no discussion_id is present in the URL format
• (vB4) CMS Section URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no section_id is present in the URL format
• (vB4) CMS Category URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no category_id is present in the URL format
• (vB4) CMS Entry URLs will now retain the "and" stopword if no entry_id is present in the URL format
• Fixed an issue with the "nofollow" whitelist not applying correctly
• Fixed an issue with the "nofollow" blacklist not applying correctly

 

[Captive Reefs]

Yup...all my & links now seem to be working perfectly.

You're the best!

 

[DannyCutts]

I think this is the same problem as whats happening on my site :-(

 

[g00gl3r]

Can you do to my site whatever you did to his please? I'm desperate.

I have a whole load of forums I'm considering this for, but if I have issues like this, I'll have to remove it and revert back to the VBSEO script.

 

[Fillip H.]

These issues have all been fixed in v1.0.9 as well as the hotfix that was released on request for v1.0.8