question about vbseo with a homepage

Hello.

I am wondering if this is possible. I have a homepage, named index.php. My forum home is forum.php. I have it set in vBSEO CP to redirect index.php to the root. But it redirects to forum.php instead. So if you go to http://www.mysite.com/index.php, it goes to http://www.mysite/forum.php, but I want it to go to http://www.mysite.com/. Now I know that this can easily be fixed by doing a 301 in .htaccess, but that is not an option, as ibproarcade uses the vbulletin index.php for saving scores and when I do that in .htaccess it breaks my arcade.

So is there any way to redirect it to the root in a way that it will work with the arcade?

Thanks in advanced.

i beleive you need to uncheck the FORCE FORUMHOME AS ROOT option the vbseocp.php page, and also, on the home aliases, be sure to change
index.php
index.php?

to
forums.php
forums.php?

Hello, and thanks for your reply. I tried that and it still allows you to enter index.php and not redirect to the root.

Basically what I am looking for is a way to redirect index.php to the root without affecting the arcade score saving.

Thanks.

Hello Andrew ,

I also have the same structure with you. Index.php my homepage and forum.php as forumhome. I have default .htaccess and have force forum root as homepage enabled with the following two options : index.php index.php?

Can you please check the following two setting in vBulletin AdminCp Site Name / URL / Contact setting group :
Forum URL :
Homepage URL :
and make sure they are both domain.com

Hello. My forum URL and Homepage URL are both http://www.domain.com.

I have my vBSEO settings the same as you, too.

Here is my .htaccess:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

ErrorDocument 401 /401.htm
ErrorDocument 404 /404.htm
ErrorDocument 403 /403.htm
ErrorDocument 500 /500.htm

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.puretalkforum\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.puretalkforum.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

Thanks for your reply. All I want is for index.php to rewrite to the domain root but still letting the arcade use the index.php.

Is there any way to use a conditional in .htacess? Sorry, I don't know apache well. In English, it would ideally be "if condition - referring url is not arcade.php, rewrite index.php to the domain root.

I hope we will be able to get it the way I would like.

Also, if I block index.php in my robots.txt, would that be bad? I don't want spiders to index my index.php, only my root. If I block index.php, would it also block the root or would I be fine??

Thanks in advanced.

Please try to add this in .htaccess after "RewriteEngine on" line:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.php$
RewriteRule .* http://www.puretalkforum.com/ [L,R=301]

If the problem is caused by the arcade i suggest you to edit index.php and add the following just after <?php

Code:

// ibProArcade
if($_POST['module'] == "pnFlashGames")
{
        require_once('./global.php');

        switch($_POST['func'])
        {
                case "storeScore":
                $_GET['act'] = "Arcade";
                $_GET['module'] = "arcade";
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFStoreScore";
                break;

                case "saveGame":
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFSaveGame";
                break;

                case "loadGame":
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFLoadGame";
                break;

                case "loadGameScores":
                $gid = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'gid', TYPE_NOHTML);
                $uid= $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];
                $game = $db->query_first("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "games_scores WHERE mid=$uid AND gid = $gid ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 0,1");
                $scores = $game[score];

                if($scores != false)
                {
                        //Return true
                        print "&opSuccess=true&gameScores=$scores&endvar=1"; //send endvar to keep opSuccess separate from all other output from PostNuke
                }
                else
                {
                        print "&opSuccess=false&error=Error&endvar=1";
                }
                break;
        }
}

$act = $_GET[act];
$autocom = $_GET[autocom];
$showuser= $_GET[showuser];
if($act == "Arcade" || $autocom=="arcade") {
include "arcade.php";
exit();
}
if(!empty($showuser) && $showuser >= 1) {
$u = $showuser;
$_GET[u] = $showuser;
include "member.php";
exit();
}

// end of ibProArcade

You can then remove it from forum.php

This is also the way i am using in order to submit scores. Maybe this will help you.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Please try to add this in .htaccess after "RewriteEngine on" line:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.php$
RewriteRule .* http://www.puretalkforum.com/ [L,R=301]

Thanks for your reply.

After I add that, I get the following in ff 2.0.0.4:

The page isn't redirecting properly













Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.








* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

when accessing my homepage.

Originally Posted by Mert G&#246;k&#231;eimam

If the problem is caused by the arcade i suggest you to edit index.php and add the following just after <?php

Code:

// ibProArcade
if($_POST['module'] == "pnFlashGames")
{
        require_once('./global.php');

        switch($_POST['func'])
        {
                case "storeScore":
                $_GET['act'] = "Arcade";
                $_GET['module'] = "arcade";
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFStoreScore";
                break;

                case "saveGame":
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFSaveGame";
                break;

                case "loadGame":
                $_GET['do'] = "pnFLoadGame";
                break;

                case "loadGameScores":
                $gid = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'gid', TYPE_NOHTML);
                $uid= $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];
                $game = $db->query_first("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "games_scores WHERE mid=$uid AND gid = $gid ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 0,1");
                $scores = $game[score];

                if($scores != false)
                {
                        //Return true
                        print "&opSuccess=true&gameScores=$scores&endvar=1"; //send endvar to keep opSuccess separate from all other output from PostNuke
                }
                else
                {
                        print "&opSuccess=false&error=Error&endvar=1";
                }
                break;
        }
}

$act = $_GET[act];
$autocom = $_GET[autocom];
$showuser= $_GET[showuser];
if($act == "Arcade" || $autocom=="arcade") {
include "arcade.php";
exit();
}
if(!empty($showuser) && $showuser >= 1) {
$u = $showuser;
$_GET[u] = $showuser;
include "member.php";
exit();
}

// end of ibProArcade

You can then remove it from forum.php

This is also the way i am using in order to submit scores. Maybe this will help you.

I actually have this code in my index.php. The problem is that when the arcade tries to access it, it redirects to the homepage because it rewrites index.php to the homepage.

After I add that, I get the following in ff 2.0.0.4:

try to change it to:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule .* http://www.puretalkforum.com/ [L,R=301]

Thank you very much. That worked perfectly.

Just one thing, which I am sure is an easy fix. My admincp now redirects to the root. Fix please? Thanks. You've been very helpful.

I think I was able to do it myself. Please tell me if I did it right. I changed it to this:

RewriteCond &#37;{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "T /index.php"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule .* http://www.puretalkforum.com/ [L,R=301]

Is this correct?

Thanks again for all of your help.

Yes, that's correct

Great! I'm learning.

Thanks so much!