How to optimize a PHP Forum?

[Evis]

Hi There,

I want to know, how to optimize a forum made of PHP. What about URL re-writing. I have read that Long Dynamic URL are not supported by Search Engines and these pages are hard to crawl. I have read about converting Dynamic URL to static one (the one which SEarch Engines prefers)..but i dont know how to do that? Can someone help me?

Thanks in Advance.

[barns101]

Have a look into mod_rewrite, there should be something about URL rewriting in the library section of this forum.

[jatar_k]

check out the Apache Library [webmasterworld.com] there are a bunch of threads in there that should help