VB mod_rewrite .. hiring ...

Im looking to hire someone to enable mod_rewrite functions to my VB forum, so dynamic urls will be static ... Just like on these forums.

Please contact me if you're able to do this, and give me quote on how much you're charging .. Thanks..

I'd PM you, but you can't PM yet.


I can't give you a quote w/o seeing your forum so I can get a good estimate on how many pages will need rewritten and how complicated those rewrites may be.

Do you have specific requests for how the URL looks?

Are you going to go through the pages so the VB outputs the links correctly or should that be part of the quote?

I can tell you that the forum isn't active yet. I've had a custom skin made and installed and only created a test forum.


Not really, the main purpose of me wanting to do this, is to make the urls static.

So like /forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2 will show up

/forum/f2/index.html or in some other format ..


That should also be apart of the quote. A rough estimate of what this will cost, is really what im looking for, to give me an idea of how big a budget I need to put aside for this.

May I also ask, - do you have any past experience in regards of rewriting VB forums ?

mod_rewrite is language independant. It's an Apache module, so what works to rewrite a PHP or Perl URL will rewrite a VB URL. It's about rewriting a non-existent request to an existing, already working state. I do have mod_rewrite experience, some of which can be seen in the MOD REWRITE Guide & Common Requests sticky in the Apache forum. I'd suggest looking over it; it might make you decide to tackle this yourself.

I have very little experience working with VB. I see your example (which incidently uses PHP ) uses basic name=value pairs in the query string of the URI. As long as VB does this, there should be no problem. I'm assuming VB outputs HTML links via strings or by breaking in/out of VB code and placing variables. This shouldn't be a problem b/c all I'll be doing is manipulating strings based on already defined variables created by your already present business logic. I shouldn't have to touch anything other than the HTML string output.

The rewrites themselves shouldn't take long, it's going through all the pages and modifying the HTML output that will take the longest. This is why I wanted to know the size / number of pages in the forum.

My rate is $40/hour, with a high estimated time frame of 4 to 6 hours, although it's very difficult to tell until I see the forum so I can see page count, number of links, and how the code is done exactly. But that should give you an estimated budget, at least from me.