WHM , cPanel is one of the most widely used server control panels. If you are using WHM and you want to move your .htaccess rules to httpd.conf and if you have no knowledge about SSH usage you can use the following guide.

Login to your WHM panel by your root login located at https://www.yourdomain.com:2087

Look for Service Configuration menu and browse for Apache Configuration under Service Configuration menu.


Within Apache Configuration please look for Include Editor


When you click on Include Editor , you'll be given 3 different choices.

• Pre Main Include
• Pre Virtual Host Include
• Post Virtual Host Include

The include we need to use in here is Pre Virtual Host Include . Please choose your apache version within Pre Virtual Host Include dropdown menu and add your .htaccess rules within the editor.


While adding the rules make sure you use your path correctly

Code:

<Directory /your/httpd/docs>
# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
</Directory>

You can add different rewrite rules for different folders.

When you are done adding rewrite rules click on Update button and then restart apache

If you ever need to uninstall vBSEO , you can use the following instructions. Make sure you carefully follow each step.

1. Login to your vBSEO Cp and disable vBSEO
2. Login to your Admincp and Browse to Plugins & Products
3. Uninstall vBSEO product file , on the next step you'll be given 2 options
   
   • If you ever plan to install vBSEO on the same domain , choose Keep vBSEO data in Database
   • If you will not use vBSEO again choose Cleanup vBSEO Data
4. Delete all files include .htaccess from your server via ftp. You can find the list of files that needs to be deleted below.

Files that needs to be deleted

• admincp
  
  • admin_vbseo.php
• clientscript
  
  • vbseo_ajax.js
• images
  
  • vbseo
    
    • anchor.png
    • delicious.gif
    • digg.gif
    • facebook.gif
    • furl.gif
    • goto_linkbacks.gif
    • linkback.gif
    • linkback_about.gif
    • linkback_url.gif
    • mister-wong
    • pingback.gif
    • post_linkback.gif
    • reddit.gif
    • refback.gif
    • spurl.gif
    • technorati.gif
    • trackback.gif
• includes
  
  • cron
    
    • vbseo_serviceupdate.php
  • xml
    
    • bitfield_vbseo.xml
    • cpnav_vbseo.xml
    • vbseo_urls_001.xml
    • vbseo_urls_002.xml
    • vbseo_urls_003.xml
    • vbseo_urls_004.xml
    • vbseo_urls_005.xml
    • vbseo_urls_006.xml
    • vbseocp_deutsch (du).xml
    • vbseocp_deutsch (sie).xml
    • vbseocp_dutch.xml
    • vbseocp_english.xml
    • vbseocp_russian.xml
    • vbseocp_turkce.xml
  • functions_vbseo.php
  • functions_vbseo_cache.php
  • functions_vbseo_createurl.php
  • functions_vbseo_crr.php
  • functions_vbseo_db.php
  • functions_vbseo_hook.php
  • functions_vbseo_linkback.php
  • functions_vbseo_misc.php
  • functions_vbseo_pre.php
  • functions_vbseo_seo.php
  • functions_vbseo_startup.php
  • functions_vbseo_url.php
  • functions_vbseo_vb.php
  • md5_sums_crawlability_vbseo.php
• modcp
  
  • vbseo_moderate.php
• vbseo.php
• vbseocp.php
• vbseocpform.php
• .htaccess

After uninstallation you can also redirect your indexed content to original vBulletin urls. Please carefully check the rewrite rules and use the one that fits your current url structure. If your url structure isn't listed below please post a sample example so we can supply the correct rules.

If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadid-threadname.html use the following .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid.html use the following .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid/ use the following .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)/ http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

vBSEO 3.3.0 versiyonuna eklediğimiz en önemli özelliklerden bir tanesi Virtual Html Gösterimi olarak karşımıza çıkıyor. Virtual Html Gösterimi sayesinde vBulletim templatelerini SEO açısından optimize etmek çok daha kolay olucaktır. Virtual Html Gösterimi iki farklı şekilde kullanılıyor.

vBulletin Bildirileri
vBulletin 3.7 versiyonuyla kullanıcıların kullanımına sunduğu Bildiriler ( Notices ) birçok farklı şeklde kullanıma açık olan ve özelleştirilebilen opsiyonu sayesinde çok faydalı bir özellik. Ancak bu özeliğin en büyük dezavantajı sayfanın yukarısında bulunması itibariyle normalde botların indexlemesini istemeyeceğiniz keywordlerin arama motorları tarafından indexlenmesine ve sayfa içeriğinizle alakasız sonuçların arama motorları tarafından alınmasına sebep oluyor. Bundan dolayı geçmişte herkes Welcome Headers opsiyonunu resim formatında kullanıyordu. Ancak resim olarak kullanmak hem sayfanın kb olarak boyutunu yükseltiyor hemde devamlı güncellemeleri çok zorlaştırıyordu.

Bunları düşünerek Virtual Html Gösterimini geliştirdik. Virtual Html Gösterimi aktif hale getirildiği anda vBulletin Noticeleri vBSEO tarafından otomatik javascript içerisine almaktadır. Arama Motoru Botları javascriptleri parse etmediğinden dolayı bu içerikler botlar tarafından görüntülenemiyor. Bunu resimlerle gösterirsek şöyle örnekleyebiliriz.
Depkac.com'u ziyaret eden bir misafire aşağıdaki uyarı vBulletin Bildirileri ile gösteriliyor.



Eğer gelen misafirin browserında Javascript kapalıysa , yani bir bot gibi Javascriptleri görüntüleyemiyorsa o zaman misafirin görüntülediği alttaki gibi oluyor ve yazıların içerisindeki içerik görüntülenemiyor.



Özel Kullanım
Bu opsiyonu ilk başta sadece vBulletin Bildirileri için düşünmüş olsakta daha sonra bu opsiyonunun gücünü fark ederek geliştirmeye karar verdik ve vBulletin templateleri içerisinde özel kullanım opsiyonunu ekledik. Virtual Html Gösterimini templateleriniz içerisinde kullanabilmek için alttaki formatı kullanabilirsiniz.

Code:

<!--VBSEO_VIRTUAL_HTML-->
içerik buraya
<!--/VBSEO_VIRTUAL_HTML-->

Örnek vermek gerekirse kullanıcıların görüntülediği



Botların görüntülediği



Görebileceğiz gibi ikinci opsiyon sayesinde sayfa üzerinden ne kadar ciddi miktarda gereksiz içerik botların gözü önünden kaldırılabiliyor.

After purchase of vBulletin Blog i was expecting Jelsoft to release Impex for vblogetin. Finally they released the impex yesterday and this turned my sunday exactly to a Bloddy Sunday. Thats why i strongly advise everyone who plans to import data to their vBulletin blog wait for the fixes.

The first problem was a missing file (ImpExDatabase_blog_001.php) inside impex. Because of this missing file impex didn't function at all. After waiting like 8 hour 45 minutes Jerry upload the file to impex and the main nightmare started.

On the first step of impex i started to receive a database error regarding

Code:

mpEx Database errormysql error: Invalid SQL: DESCRIBE blog_subscribepost importblogsubscribepostid

When i checked the vBulletin Blog table structure and compared it with impex i found that the problem was related on a mistype on Impex. In order to solve the issue I edited and corrected these mistakes.

Fix :

Find all instances of subscribepost inside the following files and replace them with subscribeentry

ImpExModule.php line 101
impex_language.php line 491
vbfields.php line 598 - 600 - 601 - 602 - 603 - 604

After this fix i succesfully runned the first step. On the second step there is a huge logic mistake and in order to import any administrators entries you need to take admin privilidges from them. After second step i immediately started to receive database errors again. After deeply checking i found two other mis configure queries which caused the errors. The first database error i received is

Code:

ImpEx Database errormysql error: Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO blog_user
(
bloguserid, importbloguserid, title, description, options,
viewoption, comments, lastblog, lastblogid,
lastblogtitle, lastcomment, lastcommenter, lastblogtextid,
posts, allowsmilie, subscribeown, subscribeothers,
moderation, deleted, draft, options_everyone,
options_buddy, options_ignore, ratingnum, ratingtotal,
rating, pending, uncatposts
)
VALUES
(
'9489',
'4',
'title',
'description',
'0',
'all',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'',
'0',
'',
'0',
'116',
'1',
'none',
'none',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0',
'0'
)


mysql error: Unknown column 'posts' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Monday 03rd 2007f September 2007 01:02:04 AM
Database: serenity
MySQL error:

As there is no posts fields inside blog_user table you need to correct the query at ImpExDatabase_blog_001.php file.
Find

Code:

$Db_object->query("
INSERT INTO {$tableprefix}blog_user
(
bloguserid, importbloguserid, title, description, options,
viewoption, comments, lastblog, lastblogid,
lastblogtitle, lastcomment, lastcommenter, lastblogtextid,
posts, allowsmilie, subscribeown, subscribeothers,
moderation, deleted, draft, options_everyone,
options_buddy, options_ignore, ratingnum, ratingtotal,
rating, pending, uncatposts
)
VALUES
(
'" . intval($this->get_value('mandatory', 'bloguserid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('mandatory', 'importbloguserid')) . "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'title')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(255) */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'description')) . /* Default : Type : mediumtext */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'viewoption'), array('all','only','except'), 'all') . /* Default : all Type : enum('all','only','except') */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'comments')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblog')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogtitle')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(255) */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastcomment')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastcommenter')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(100) */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogtextid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'posts')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'allowsmilie')) . /* Default : Type : smallint(5) unsigned */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'subscribeown'), array('none','usercp','email'), 'none') . /* Default : none Type : enum('none','usercp','email') */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'subscribeothers'), array('none','usercp','email'), 'none') . /* Default : none Type : enum('none','usercp','email') */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'moderation')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'deleted')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'draft')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_everyone')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_buddy')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_ignore')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'ratingnum')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'ratingtotal')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . floatval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'rating')) . /* Default : Type : float unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'pending')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'uncatposts')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "'
)
");

Replace this with

Code:

$Db_object->query("
INSERT INTO {$tableprefix}blog_user
(
bloguserid, importbloguserid, title, description, options,
viewoption, comments, lastblog, lastblogid,
lastblogtitle, lastcomment, lastcommenter, lastblogtextid,
allowsmilie, subscribeown, subscribeothers,
moderation, deleted, draft, options_everyone,
options_buddy, options_ignore, ratingnum, ratingtotal,
rating, pending
)
VALUES
(
'" . intval($this->get_value('mandatory', 'bloguserid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('mandatory', 'importbloguserid')) . "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'title')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(255) */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'description')) . /* Default : Type : mediumtext */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'viewoption'), array('all','only','except'), 'all') . /* Default : all Type : enum('all','only','except') */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'comments')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblog')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogtitle')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(255) */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastcomment')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . addslashes($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastcommenter')) . /* Default : Type : varchar(100) */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'lastblogtextid')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'allowsmilie')) . /* Default : Type : smallint(5) unsigned */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'subscribeown'), array('none','usercp','email'), 'none') . /* Default : none Type : enum('none','usercp','email') */ "',
'" . $this->enum_check($this->get_value('mandatory', 'subscribeothers'), array('none','usercp','email'), 'none') . /* Default : none Type : enum('none','usercp','email') */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'moderation')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'deleted')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'draft')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_everyone')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_buddy')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'options_ignore')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'ratingnum')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'ratingtotal')) . /* Default : Type : int(10) unsigned */ "',
'" . floatval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'rating')) . /* Default : Type : float unsigned */ "',
'" . intval($this->get_value('nonmandatory', 'pending')) . /* Default : 0 Type : int(10) unsigned */ "'
)
");

P.S : Carefull eyes will see that i removed another field named uncatposts because this is also not needed by vBulletin Blog.

P.S 2: Because of the 10000 character limit the remaining is on the first comment