why did you *not* use friendly seo urls?

[Marcus]

I am planning to migrate to xf 1.1 very soon and I am tempted to enable friendly urls only in the way that the title is not part of the url:

/forum/thread/435345/
/forum/forums/1234/

What are your reasons to not put in the page title within the url? Here are some of my ideas:
- once you switch the title later, all the older title urls would be different
- harder to find and replace, manipulate existing urls as you have to rewrite the title, too.
- possible very minimal effect on page generation time
- cleaner url

 

[ragtek]

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[Forsaken]

I am planning to migrate to xf 1.1 very soon and I am tempted to enable friendly urls only in the way that the title is not part of the url:

/forum/thread/435345/
/forum/forums/1234/

What are your reasons to not put in the page title within the url? Here are some of my ideas:
- once you switch the title later, all the older title urls would be different
- harder to find and replace, manipulate existing urls as you have to rewrite the title, too.
- possible very minimal effect on page generation time
- cleaner url

Just so you know, the only part that matters in the URL is the ID.

You can change all the words in the title and leave the ID, and it'll work fine.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/random-long-title-for-example.21269/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/qwerty.21269/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/another-example-title.21269/

 

[Kier]

once you switch the title later, all the older title urls would be different

Thread titles hardly ever change.

harder to find and replace, manipulate existing urls as you have to rewrite the title, too.

No you don't, just use the ID

possible very minimal effect on page generation time

So minimal as to be completely inconsequential

cleaner url

... which is also significantly less useful to any human seeing the URL and wondering what its content might be before the click it.

 

[Rho Delta]

what do you have to do to the .htaccess file to get this to work?

 

[Paul B]

The supplied .htaccess file needs no changes made to it on a standard installation.
The server must support mod_rewrite though.

 

[Rho Delta]

The supplied .htaccess file needs no changes made to it on a standard installation.
The server must support mod_rewrite though.

Just turned it on and now every forum link does this... help?