Introduction

Pretty URLs is a URL management package for Simple Machine Forums (SMF).

It is simple, powerful, extensible and free. Most of all, it is pretty! Its main purpose is to rewrite the important SMF URLs, like these:

• http://domain.com/board/topic/
• http://domain.com/profile/user/
• http://domain.com/unreadreplies/

Pretty URLs will work with SMF 1.1 and 2.0. It requires an Apache webserver with support for mod_rewrite and .htaccess files.

Pretty URLs is released under a new BSD licence
Copyright (c) 2006-2009 The Pretty URLs Contributors

Downloads

You can download packages from the Downloads tab at the top! Use the latest version of the prettyurls package. Sometimes snapshot packages are available too: these have extra features currently in development, and should only be installed by advanced users.

An extras package is also available, which contains some additional filters. The reverter package should be installed if you decide to remove the prettyurls package: it will redirect the pretty URLs back to the normal SMF urls.

Installation

To install the mod:

• First check again that your server supports mod_rewrite and .htaccess files.
• A UTF-8 database encoding is recommended, though not required. Certain functions will work unreliably with other encodings.
• Download and install the prettyurls package in your forum's package manager.
• Enable URL rewriting in the new Pretty URLs page.

Need help?

Check the trouble shooting page first!

If that doesn't answer your questions, ask for help in the support topic. Please post live URLs which we can easily access. It's too difficult to help with forums installed locally or on intranets.

How to contribute

If you have sufficient PHP skills, try fixing a bug. We're on the look out for more developers.

If you speak a language other than English, please help by translating the mod. We use Launchpad.net for translations.