Force Forum Root as Homepage - expanded to other 'vB Powered Sections'

[Ace Shattock]

This feature is pretty powerful.. removing all those nasty /index.php duplicate links from our forums.

What would be nice is the ability to define other directories, at root/, /forum/, or below /forum/ level, that would also have their index.php links consolidated into / links.

In case I'm not clear enough.. New Zealand Photo Gallery - New Zealand Boards and New Zealand Boards

Note that the second one redirects itself to my forum homepage.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hi Ace,

there is a new option that can be manually set in config file to change all "/folder/index.php" to "/folder/" on the rewritten pages

    define('VBSEO_FORCEHOMEPAGE_ROOT',  1); 

[Ace Shattock]

Perfect!

Now, my next suggestion involves an install service and several beautiful women...

[Ace Shattock]

Hi Ace,

there is a new option that can be manually set in config file to change all "/folder/index.php" to "/folder/" on the rewritten pages

    define('VBSEO_FORCEHOMEPAGE_ROOT',  1); 

Hmmm.. I don't see that.

I see

define('VBSEO_HP_FORCEINDEXROOT',             1); 

.. but as you can see, it is set to 1 already, and my Gallery (/photos/index.php) is still redirecting to Forum Home when the index.php part is used. :(

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

It should be near the bottom of config (these are two different options).

[BamaStangGuy]

I have it in mine

[Ace Shattock]

Ahh yes.

Mine ends in

    // ****** CUSTOM CHARACTER REPLACEMENTS ******
    // The following array e 

..so I am going to assume my connection died whilst downloading.

I have enabled it but it's not doing what I thought it would..

nzboards.com/photos/index.php still shows when looking at (for example) New Zealand Boards - New Zealand Photo Gallery - General Images , and still redirects to Forum Home.

I want it to redirect to /photos/ (ie: Remove the index.php duplication).

Doable?

[Notorious]

didnt work,

[Ace Shattock]

Nope.

Oleg? Help please?

(It looks like it works now on NZB because I manually edited the navbar in PP vBGallery templates.)

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You can put the following into .htaccess in corresponding folder right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com/folder/ [L,R=301]