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•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #1 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 14, 2008 - 3:21 AM: I have two categories like the followings. C and C++ ASP.Net Their URLs and subcategories' URLs are ..../XXX , which XXX are digits. Other categories are all like ..../category-name What can I do to make these two categories along with their subcategoris appear like the usual format, .../category-name ? Thanks!
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #2 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 15, 2008 - 3:10 PM: If you have characters in the names that aren't appropriate for that portion of a URL, you'll have to include {CATID} in your category rewrite scheme. For example, {CATREWRITEPATH}-{CATID}/{PAGE}.html
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #3 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 16, 2008 - 2:57 AM: Thanks for the help. Most URLs of subcategories are very SE-friendly now. But two categories I mentioned on the first post, are still not like /category-name-x . C and C++ -> .../c-and-c2b2b-5 - I belive the scirpt rewrite ++ to 2b2b. ASP.Net -> .../4-4 - the script still can't handle/rewrite the dot (.) , and all subcategories' URLs are appeared like the main category /X-X. Is there a way we can improve the rewrite for above problem?
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #4 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 17, 2008 - 9:59 AM: Fixed for next release.
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #5 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 18, 2008 - 3:42 AM: That will be great!
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #6 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 26, 2008 - 4:16 AM: Well, I have upgraded to the 5.0.27. for special characters such as + and ., they are handled very well now. I have this setting on 'Search Engine Optimization Settings'. {CATREWRITEPATH}-{CATID}/{PAGE} .html Categories are supposed to be like ...../category-name-X, however it works on single word only. If we have combination words such as 'Development Tools', script will rewrite the URL like ...../142-142 where 142 is the categories' ID. It seems that the new release fixed the special characters issue but generating new bugs on mod-write. this is part of my htaccess. RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+)\.html?$ memberlist.php?rewritten=1&page=$1 RewriteRule ^members/([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-trader\.html?$ trader.php?rewritten=1&id=$2 RewriteRule ^members/([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ memberlist.php?rewritten=1&action=profile&id=$2 RewriteRule ^members/?$ memberlist.php?rewritten=1 RewriteRule ^help/?$ help.php?rewritten=1 RewriteRule ^help/([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ help.php?rewritten=1&action=showcat&name=$1 RewriteRule ^help/([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)/([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ help.php?rewritten=1&action=showitem&id=$3 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)-tags/?$ search.php?rewritten=1&filled=1&action=filter&whichtype=links&tagscondition=like&tagssearch=\|$1\| RewriteRule ^([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)/vote-([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ vote.php?rewritten=1&id=$3&categorypath=$1&linktitle=$2 RewriteRule ^([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)/email-([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ email.php?rewritten=1&id=$3&categorypath=$1&linktitle=$2 RewriteRule ^([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ comments.php?rewritten=1&id=$2&linktitle=$1 RewriteRule ^([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ comments.php?rewritten=1&id=$2&page=$3 RewriteRule ^([-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html?$ comments.php?rewritten=1&id=$2 RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?rewritten=1&action=displaycat&catid=$1 RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?rewritten=1&action=displaycat&catid=$1&page=$2 RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/sp([0-9]+).htm$ index.php?rewritten=1&action=displaycat&catname=$1&subpage=$2 RewriteRule ^[-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+-([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?rewritten=1&action=displaycat&catname=$1 RewriteRule ^[-_/\+A-Za-z0-9]+-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)\.html?$ index.php?rewritten=1&action=displaycat&catname=$1&page=$2
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #7 - Quote - Permalink Posted Dec 27, 2008 - 8:20 PM: Confirmed the problem, will be fixed shortly.
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #8 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 03, 2009 - 7:43 PM: Sorry to bother, but i found one more bug even though the above problems are solved in the latest version. I have this setting on 'Search Engine Optimization Settings'. {CATREWRITEPATH}-{CATID}/{PAGE} .html Let say there is a main category. ...../i-am-category-3 and its subcategory URL is supposed to be ..../i-am-category-3/this-is-subcategory-201 In 5.0.28, its showing ..../i-am-category/this-is-subcategory-201, the script eliminates the {CATID} of its upper category.
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #9 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 06, 2009 - 3:02 PM: That's working the way I intended it. Why include more uninformative numbers than necessary? If you really want it I guess I could include an alternate {CATREWRITEPATHID} which would include the ids.
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #10 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 09, 2009 - 1:02 AM: Yes, I do want the subcategory URLs to be the extended URLs of their main categories. Its good for SE to pass pagerank to subpages. Actually, what I mostly prefer is to removed the {CATID} from URL no matter category comes with special characters or not. Thanks!
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #11 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 11, 2009 - 9:41 PM: How can a URL without an id ever identify a category when it's missing characters? I don't believe that's possible.
•mc19 Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: May 14, 2006 Total Topics: 41 Total Comments: 103	•mc19 #12 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 14, 2009 - 3:59 AM: I don't know how to do. Can we have the new release with the organized URL structure? something like this, this is definitely good for SE. ..../i-am-category-x ..../i-am-category-x/this-is-subc ategory-x ..../i-am-category-x/this-is-subcategory-x/anothe r-subcategory-x
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #13 - Quote - Permalink Posted Jan 28, 2009 - 12:43 PM: A {CATREWRITEPATHIDS} to do that can be made available for the 5.1 series (or sooner as a custom project).

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