Login HELP: Willing to PAY for fixing the problem

After a month of working with VBulletin (no help) and my hosting company I have not fixed this. Here is the problem:

I have the newest Vbulletin (4.x) and VBSeo installed. Every time you login to the forum, it will redirect me, and I am no longer logged in. Once I refresh the page, I am logged in. As you know, this is not a good look.

What has been done: VBulletin: Although they helped extensively, the problem still incurred.
Hosting: Nothing. They said it looks like a caching problem, and did not help any more.

I am more than willing to pay someone for the job to be completed and worked. I am getting pretty desperate now, and wanted to launch my forum a while ago. Here is the url:

BikeReviews.com/forum/

I had a similar problem. Mine was releated to my BROWSER security settings. Please make sure in the options you can do something at the browser you use.

Thanks for your reply.
What do you mean by "Please make sure in the options you can do something at the browser you use."?

Also, is there a way to fix this across the board? I can login to VBSeo forums perfectly fine and VBulletin (although it redirects you to forums/forums.php)

Hello Brian ,

Can you please post your .htaccess content

# 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]

Please make sure you correctly redirect domain.com to www.domain.com or vice versa , more details can be found within [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

Thank you for the response, but to be 100% honest I am a newb at this.
I run a wordpress site at the home page (bikereviews.com) I would greatly appreciate if you could help by letting me know what code to add specifically. I am more than willing to "tip" as well. Thank you so much.

You need to use the following .htaccess on your forum folder :

Code:

# 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\.bikereviews\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bikereviews.com/forum/$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]

Thank you so much! This seems to have cured it!
I have another small problem. When you click on the logo of the forum, you are taken from Bikereviews.com/forum/ to Bikereviews.com/forum/forum.php and when you click on the "Home" button, you will go to BikeReviews.com/forum/forum. I had this removed once (went into navbar area) and now it seems to have returned. I can not figure out where to remove this at now. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello,

You can define 'Homepage Aliases' to fix your issue. It can be found at:

vBSEO CP -> SEO Functions -> Homepage Settings -> Define Homepage Aliases

You may enter:

Code:

forum.php
forum.php?
forum
index.php
index.php?

And so on (one per line).

Hey,
I just tried that, and this does not redirect.
I would like to have the redirect, but is there a way to remove the forum/forum and forum/forum.php extension?

It does, but your issue is directly related with the link in your tab 'Forum'. Have you ever edited the navbar template?. What are the settings for your "Forum URL" and "Script Name for Forum Home Page"?.

I would suggest you defining the 'Script Name for Forum Home Page' option to index

ACP, options, URL

Make sure it's corrent

Thank you very much for your help. I figured everything out. I am very thankful that their are knowledge-able people in the VBSeo forum (no one seems to help on VBulletin forums).

That's great to hear, Brian . If you faces further issues, let us know without hesitating.