How to disable vbseo without access to admin panel

Sometimes I have trouble with a buggy plug in and need to disable them all via /include/config.php.

But puting in config.php "define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);" seems still not full disabling vbseo as a plugin. Access to login.php was leading nowhere.
I put in .htacess

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(cpadmin/|cpmod/|cron|redir\.php|login\.php) then I was able to login to admin panel with disabled plugins.

Is there any way to disable vbseo, when access to admin panel is not possible? Could one put something in config_vbseo.php?

Or could be that disabling plugin via config.php not works, when one uses xChache for Datastore?

Yes you can disable vBSEO from config_vbseo.php
open config_vbseo.php and find :

PHP Code:

define('VBSEO_ENABLED',                  1); 


Replace 1 to 0 and then reupload the file

You may also need to temporarily rename .htaccess to htacces.txt via ftp.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

You may also need to temporarily rename .htaccess to htacces.txt via ftp.

Renaming .htaccess brings to Fatal error about that XCache not installed, with report that class_datastore.php needs it.

xcache data/directive pointers are not stored in htaccess. renaning the file should have no effect on xCache at all. Did you alter your htaccess some way to include this?

No xcache is not extra included in .htacess as much I know
Here is what is included in my .htaccess

# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#
# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
# the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# File modified on Thu Dec 28 11:32:05 2006 by server
# For security reasons, mod_php is not used on this server. Use a php.ini file for php directives
# php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

AddHandler audio/mpeg .mp3

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.viparmenia\.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://viparmenia.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#Redirect 301 /vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=2002 http://viparmenia.com/vb/images/bann...viparmenia.jpg
#RewriteRule ^(vb/attachment\.php\?attachmentid=2002&id=(\d+)) vb/images/banner/bannervipaemenia.jpg [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

But what I figure out
The error comes, when I am renaming .htaccess in main folder where vbCMPS is mainly working.
My forum is in subfolder vb and there I have another .htaccess

# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#
# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
# the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# File modified on Thu Dec 28 11:32:05 2006 by server
# For security reasons, mod_php is not used on this server. Use a php.ini file for php directives
# php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

AddHandler audio/mpeg .mp3

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.viparmenia\.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://viparmenia.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#Redirect 301 /vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=2002 http://viparmenia.com/vb/images/bann...viparmenia.jpg
#RewriteRule ^(vb/attachment\.php\?attachmentid=2002&id=(\d+)) vb/images/banner/bannervipaemenia.jpg [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
viparme1@viparmenia.com [~/www]# cd vb
viparme1@viparmenia.com [~/www/vb]# cd .htaccess
-bash: cd: .htaccess: Not a directory
viparme1@viparmenia.com [~/www/vb]# more .htaccess
# 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} !(cpadmin/|cpmod/|cron|redir\.php)
#|login\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

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


<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

Renaming the .htaccess - last one in folder where vbulletin is, is ok.

You didn't need to rename your main folder htaccess you need to rename htaccess in your forum dir only and since it working when you rename your forum htaccess and didn't get any problem so your forum is fine and that's what Brian mean