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Posted 10/21/07 - 08:44 PM:
#1
Hi Paul,
I'm having issues with the site map regeneration after my upgrade to the latest release of wsnlinks:
1) My site map regeneration is now regenerating my out going links instead of my details page. Im not sure if this occurred because you have removed the "Format for link details rewriting:" from the "Use apache mod_rewrite URL rewriting?" section of "Search Engine Optimization Settings" in the admin section of version 4.1.8 ?
I tried my other wsnlink website version 4.0.39 and the details page shows up in the rss feed with no problems. Although the "Format for link details rewriting:" is available in version 4.0.39 but not in 4.1.8.
2)The regenerated detail links was messed up more if I leave the following blank while keeping all other options the same in "Search Engine Optimization Settings" :
Format for member link list rewriting: Format for member link list index rewriting: Format for member list: Format for profiles:
4) I just found another issue. My rss feed is also showing the url of the links and not details page, it was pointing to the details page before the upgrade today.
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Posted 10/22/07 - 07:51 PM:
#2
1) I haven't removed anything. It's likely that you've combined details and comments pages, which means you're selecting to not have a details page.
2 & 3) Making rewrite urls blank doesn't make any sense and can be expected to produce errors. Rewriting a URL to "" just isn't logical since that's not a valid url.
Details urls in RSS feeds has always been a non-standard tweak in cases where the link has a url. You can pass &usedetails=1 in the URL or put $usedetails = 1; in your tweaks.php.
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Posted 10/22/07 - 09:07 PM:
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Paul wrote: 1) I haven't removed anything. It's likely that you've combined details and comments pages, which means you're selecting to not have a details page.
2 & 3) Making rewrite urls blank doesn't make any sense and can be expected to produce errors. Rewriting a URL to "" just isn't logical since that's not a valid url.
Details urls in RSS feeds has always been a non-standard tweak in cases where the link has a url. You can pass &usedetails=1 in the URL or put $usedetails = 1; in your tweaks.php.
Hey Paul, 1) I dont use the combine comments and details pages for my site although i did activate it once to try it when i first installed version 4.1 I am not sure if that is why the rewrite is messed up. Could it be something in the database that didnt change over when I stopped using the combine details and comment page switch ?
Using details for rssfeed works but it is still not the correct rewrite url to my details page.
2) Is it hard to go back to version 4.0.39 from 4.1 ? I m really missing the stability i had with version 4.0.39 or can you add "Format for link details rewriting:" to version 4.1.3 ? you had it in version 4.0.39 and that worked fine.
3) For some reason the rewite for member profile does not work in my map.xml as well. Is there a way to just have some rewrite turned off you had that option available in version 4.0.39 for example 'Rewrite member list, profiles and help items? yes or no'
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Posted 10/23/07 - 11:16 AM:
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1) Show me a screenshot of your SEO settings.
2) Nobody else seems to have seen an option dissapear, so I need to know what you do different. 4.1.8 offers these options: http://www.webmastersite.net/screenshots/27437.jpg . A downgrade would cause a few issues with the new database.
3) You can rewrite profiles to memberlist.php?action=profile&id={MEMBERID} if you want to not use special URLs.
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Posted 10/23/07 - 06:43 PM:
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Paul wrote: 1) Show me a screenshot of your SEO settings.
2) Nobody else seems to have seen an option dissapear, so I need to know what you do different. 4.1.8 offers these options: http://www.webmastersite.net/screenshots/27437.jpg . A downgrade would cause a few issues with the new database.
3) You can rewrite profiles to memberlist.php?action=profile&id={MEMBERID} if you want to not use special URLs.
<IF not {SWITCH_DETAILCOMMENTS}><br />Format for {NAMEFORLINKS} details rewriting: <input type="text" name="rewritelinkname" size="50" value="{REWRITELINKNAME}"></IF> </IF>
I dont have the details and comments switch on so thats why i dont have the details rewriting option. Is it possible to give others that dont have that switch turn on to be able to rewrite the detaisl page as well ?
Ill try to get a screen shot for you of my seo page, I just need to figure out how. I actually downgraded my site to 4.1.3 last night but all the problems i mentioned still exist in this version as well.
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Posted 10/23/07 - 08:54 PM:
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Hey paul,
1) I went ahead and did this with ssoe.tpl and now it works fine now (changesd were done for version 4.1.8: I changed this -
<IF {SWITCH_COMMENTS}> <br />Format for thread rewriting: <input type="text" name="rewritethread" size="50" value="{REWRITETHREAD}"> <IF not {SWITCH_DETAILCOMMENTS}><br />Format for {NAMEFORLINKS} details rewriting: <input type="text" name="rewritelinkname" size="50" value="{REWRITELINKNAME}"></IF> </IF>
to this - <IF {SWITCH_COMMENTS}> <br />Format for thread rewriting: <input type="text" name="rewritethread" size="50" value="{REWRITETHREAD}"></IF> <IF not {SWITCH_COMMENTS}><br />Format for {NAMEFORLINKS} details rewriting: <input type="text" name="rewritelinkname" size="50" value="{REWRITELINKNAME}"></IF>
now 'Format for link details rewriting:' shows up and is modifiable for me. My site map and rss feed are now running correctly for the details page too.
2) The rewrite for member profile still does not work though. I used your tip above to not have the rewrite and this came up in the map.xml
3) I added a pdf file of my updated soe page with out the if statement for details rewriting, sorry i dont know how to take a jpg screen shot on my comp.
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Posted 10/24/07 - 11:09 PM:
#8
hey Paul,
here is my switch page, really havent touch anything besides upgrading to a newer version last night.
1) I think the way u set up switch for comments is that unless you click on the comment switch the combine comment and detail switch does not show up, so im not sure how that will be possible unless there is a bug some where that dont let you switch off the combine comment and details page once you used it ?
2)I dont mind leaving it on but the links in the rewritten map.xml file for member profile do not work so i just prefer the SE to not even index it, thats all or at least wait until you can find a solution for it.
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Posted 10/26/07 - 03:47 AM:
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1) I'm betting that if you check the comments box there, you'll find that 'combine details and comments' is still checked. Turn on comments, then turn off the combo before turning off comments. 4.1.8+ no longer allow you to turn off comments without turning off the combo, but previous misconfigurations will stick until changed.
2) There's no guarantee that not listing in a sitemap stops indexing anyway. Use a noindex meta tag to prevent indexing. In the <head> section of the wrapper, <IF {CURRENTURL} contains memberlist.php> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> </IF>
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or can you add "Format for link details rewriting:" to version 4.1.3 ? you had it in version 4.0.39 and that worked fine.