Question about installing vBSEO

Hey,

I am installing vBSEO for my forums now, and I am following the instructions. But I'm just wondering what do I do with the 'htaccess' folder? Because there is 8 files in there... so do I upload them all to my root? or in a 'public_html/forums/htaccess' folder etc?

It does say on the instructions to upload the .htaccess file, but I will just edit my current .htaccess file with the code and add it to the bottom of my file. So I hope that is okay too?

Please let me know, thanks

We supply htaccess and htaccess-like files for a variety of different web platforms... apache, iis, lightspeed, etc etc, each with their own file.

Assuming you are on apache, you would simply want to use the .htaccess file and place that in your forums root. If you already have a file, you can merge them. Just placing it in the bottom may not be ideal or working depending on what is there already.

Okay thanks, and when using this Mod, I take it I don't need this in my .htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

From: Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs => .htaccess

Hello Danny,

Yes, That's looks like vbulletin URLs htaccess, You will need to remove it and upload vBSEO htaccess

Thanks, support here is great and quick!

You are welcome Danny