[risoknop]

Hello, I have installed bbPress at one of my websites (in a subdirectory called “forums” – i.e. bbPress is installed at mydomain.com/forums/).

I’m trying to set up Lighttpd URL rewrite rules now in order to achieve SEO friendly permalinks.

I have tried to google a little bit but the only thing I have found is this:

"^/forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2",

"^/forum/([^/]+)/?$" => "/forum.php?id=$1",

"^/topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2",

"^/topic/([^/]+)/?$" => "/topic.php?id=$1",

"^/tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2",

"^/tags/([^/]+)/?$" => "/tags.php?tag=$1",

"^/tags/?$" => "/tags.php",

"^/profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2",

"^/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$" => "/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2",

"^/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3",

"^/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/favorites/?$" => "/profile.php?id=$1&tab=favorites",

"^/profile/([^/]+)/?$" => "/profile.php?id=$1",

"^/view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$" => "/view.php?view=$1&page=$2",

"^/view/([^/]+)/?$" => "/view.php?view=$1",

"^/rss/?$" => "/rss.php",

"^/rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$" => "/rss.php?forum=$1",

"^/rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$" => "/rss.php?topic=$1",

"^/rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$" => "/rss.php?tag=$1",

"^/rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$" => "/rss.php?profile=$1"

Could anybody tell me how to edit it taking into consideration the subfolder where the bbPress is installed?

My current Lighttpd rewrite rules in config file are bellow:

url.rewrite-once = (

"^/(wp-.+).*/?" => "$0",

"^/images/.*/?" => "$0",

"^/forums/.*/?" => "$0",

"^/temp/.*/?" => "$0",

"^/(sitemap.xml)" => "$0",

"^/(xmlrpc.php)" => "$0",

"^/keyword/([A-Za-z_0-9-]+)/?$" => "/index.php?keyword=$1",

"^/.*?(?.*)?$" => "/index.php$1"

)

[winmutt]

This one actually works. bbpress in /forums/

“^/forums/forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/forum/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/forum.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/topic/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/topic.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/tags/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/tags.php?tag=$1”,

“^/forums/tags/?$” => “/forums/tags.php”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/favorites/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=favorites”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/view.php?view=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/view/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/view.php?view=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/?$” => “/forums/rss.php”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/forum/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?forum=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/topic/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?topic=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/tags/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?tag=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/profile/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?profile=$1”

[winmutt]

I found other issues with this setup, particularly in passing more than one parameter via get. I went back to ?forum_id=1 type urls.

[_ck_]

There was a lighttpd “pro” on the irc channel last week named “rockerdan”

There are also several threads around here about it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Lighttpd+site%3Abbpress.org&num=100

[winmutt]

The problem with these solutions is that none of them work with more than one _GET parameter. Particularly with the QUOTE extension. Also, it wasn’t over clear how a larger forum would handle duplicate subject topics.

[anotherdan]

Lighttpd “pro” – thanks but im not, hehe… Anyways it was me on irc the other day, I have bbPress running now, and have made a few changes to the the rewrite rules, I found exactly some errors regarding some urls needing more parameters…

This is how it looks now:

http://lab.anotherdan.com/conf/bbpress-rewrite.conf.txt

I havent been through it all but at least some it works (Note this also contains some of the custom rewriting im doing for this install)

[winmutt]

I am going to talk to the regex gurus at work tomorrow and see if some sushi is motivation enough for them. There needs to be a complete conversion from path to normal get parameters.

[jcw]

Had to add an extra rule to make this work for continuation pages of the front page:

“^/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/?page=$1”,

There appears to be an issue still, within BBpress 1.02 this time: when on a continuation page, the link for “Page 1” does not include a “1” but the number of the current page – so the link does nothing and does not return to the home page.

[webmacho]

None of this works for me