From 3.8.x to VB4 and latest vbseo 3.5.1 (Feedback please)

I moved it to root now, CMS work but I get errors when I try to enter a forum, e.g. general...

Warning: include(./forums.inf) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/phuket/public_html/general/common.inc on line 207

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './forums.inf' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/phuket/public_html/general/common.inc on line 207

Warning: include(./header.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 74

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './header.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 74

Notice: Undefined variable: default_table_header_color in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 84
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Notice: Undefined variable: lAvailableForums in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 84

Notice: Undefined variable: default_table_body_color_1 in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 90
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Notice: Undefined variable: lNoActiveForums in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 126

Warning: include(./footer.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 146

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './footer.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/phuket/public_html/general/index.php3 on line 146

While CMS, Blogs and Forum look ok on surface, when I enter General forum, it tries to access domain.com/general, it should be domain.com/forums/general/.

It worked fine when it was in forums folder, so how to fix it?!

I have reading around more here. Now I understand I dont keep my old path to the threads, but the .htaccess in forums/ folder redirect old threads to the new structure. So far so fine.

But when I added that .htaccess file, "'^forum\.php$' => 'forum/'" CRR will not work.

So now old threads from Google works, but people who follow links to my forum folder will have problem. (Where most ppl linked too)

General is still not working tho, but most other forums seems to be fine.

*** SOLVED ***

Everything seems to work fine now, the general forum problem solved itself when I removed .htaccess from forums folder.

The best solution is to actually change all forum rewrite options in vbseo cp. Not so easy when some texts here recommend htaccess file in forums folder. htaccess had been fine if it didnt broke my general forum for some unknown reasons.

Cheers!

You can't have a CRR (or any 'fake' folder) pointing to the place of a real folder. Thus, the CRR to forum/ conflicted with the forum directory.

Your two options are either customize all of the rewrite rules to have /forum/ at the begining of them so you keep the same structure OR

delete the old /forum/ folder then add

Code:

'^forum/(.+)$' => '$1'

into the custom redirect box... OR delete the old /forum/ folder then add

Code:

RewriteRule ^forum/(.+)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Right bellow the RewriteEngine On .htaccess file. Making sure to change domain.com to your domain.

Thanks for all the help and feedback.

If I get performance problems I may look into htaccess again, as I understand my solution gives little bit more overhead compared to htaccess solution. I still dont understand why only one of my forums (General) showed a directory listing, with files I cant even recognise, while rest of my forum worked fine. I dont have any general folder on my website.

I am indeed happy to have it up and working with a structure I like.