How does this work with vBadvanced?

Bit confused here, wasn't even sure where to post this.

I have vBSEO installed and working well, I also use vBadvanced for my site.

Forums are at /forum/ vbadvanced etc is at /

I was previously using my .htaccess for rewrites of vBadvanced stuff, but I hear that vBSEO works with vBadvanced, but I do not know how.

For example, a few of my URLs are:

http://www.mini2.com/index.php?page=...rticlestart=10

(the second page of my news headlines)

http://www.mini2.com/index.php?page=newsitem&newsid=343

(news article with newsid of 343)

At present I use a very long winded way to get

http://www.mini2.com/news10.html to link to the first (using htaccess 301)

and
www.mini2.com/article343.html to link to the second.

(I have further pages, but they all follow a similar format for reviews etc.)

Now, do I, can I get vBSEO to do the rewrites, either out of the box (I understand my "fake" .hmtl links would probably have to be updated) or as custom rewrite rules?

Thanks in advance!

This is how I work it at the moment.

RewriteRule ^news(.*).html /index.php?page=mini2news&articlestart=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^article(.*).html /index.php?page=newsitem&newsid=$1 [L,R=301]

Thank you very much!

Another (last) question on this.

I wish to redirect both sponsors.html and sponsor.html to the same page (index.php?page=directory)

When I did this:

'index\.php\?page=directory' => 'sponsors.html'
'index\.php\?page=directory' => 'sponsor.html'

It gave a "Page not found" for sponsors, but sponsor worked.

Can I make this work?

Thanks again!

OK, no problem.

Sorry, to tag along here. I too am using vbadvanced in the root and vb in /forums. Which directory do I install vbseo to? which directory gets the .htaccess? Thanks

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Hello Steve,

vBSEO goes into your forums directory, along with the .htaccess that comes with vBSEO.

If vBadvanced CMPS is in the root, you'll need an additional .htaccess in that location, containing the information Oleg provided in the second part of his post here: How does this work with vBadvanced?

Thank you. You are a gentleman and a scholar. But what else would I expect from a fellow North Carolinian

hello,
just saing that I'm not a programmer and ask your have patient whit me...
1. my forum is install in x-trad.org/forums
2. I intall vbadvanced in site root.
then...I read this thread and I need to confirm the htacess [2!]files
file in x-trad.org/forums

# 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.
# linha comentada por mim RewriteEngine On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml\.gz|txt))$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
RewriteBase /forums
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
####################################
##### you can use the following CRRs to rewrite these links:
#'index\.php\?page=newsitem&newsid=(\d+)' => 'article$1.html'
#'index\.php\?page=mini2news&articlestart=(\d+)' => 'news$1.html'
I comment this 2 lines - the vbadvanced don't show avatars and images anym
more......

in site root [x-trad.org] this htacess

####################################
##### You will have to add separate .htaccess file to the site root:####
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !forums/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ forum/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&vbseorelpath=../&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

this is the right way?
my best regards,
barroca

Tks again for your answer Oleg!
I will change as you write. And send feedback here.
Cheers,
barroca
ps. you can indicate some papers to read about htaccess and 'rewrites'?