Is there a solution for 404 Errors?

I made some updates to my website network, which includes my wordpress blog, my mainpages, and I even went ahead and upgraded the vbulletin software to vb3.8.4 PL1. I'm currently running vbSEO 3.3.1 since the release.

So, everything's fine, cool, until somewhere between a few hours later to a day later, I find this error:

"Not Found The requested URL [insert URL here] was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

Forumhome is fine, but clicking on a forum category, a thread, or user's profile causes this error to come up.

I already spoke to the admin of the server, and his hunch is either checking vbseo settings, or htaccess?

It sounds more of a .htaccess issue to me

make sure you didn't over-write your vbseo htaccess with the wordpress htaccess.

So, overwriting the vbulletin .htaccess would fix this?

Or overwriting the Wordpress .htaccess?

it all depends on how you have it installed where the files should be.

where is your forum? (ie, site.com or site.com/forum)
where is your blog? (ie, site.com or site.com/blog)

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

it all depends on how you have it installed where the files should be.

where is your forum? (ie, site.com or site.com/forum)
where is your blog? (ie, site.com or site.com/blog)

My server's setup is through roots. Each addon domain has a root. They're all separate.

My wordpress is located at www.carlos360.com and my forum are located at boards.carlosx360.me

So, this tells you the roots are different. I didn't move the htaccess file to overwrite vbulletin or wordpress. However, I did copy a htaccess file to work with another site because it was showing a "cpanel is working" screen, so i messed with the files to see how I can fix that. I determined it was a file problem. I solved it, but I also messed up vbseo along the way. Strange it seems to me. Because I only used a different folder in order for this whole ordeal to work, and I even renamed it to work ONLY with that website.

smurof.com was the website that was affected by the "cpanel is working" problem after I added the domain a few weeks ago.

being in seperate directories, you shouldn't have any conflicts. the wordpress htaccess should be in the wordpress root and the vbseo htaccess should be in the forum root.

I fixed the problem. I overwrote the htaccess from a fresh install folder of vbseo. It solved it. CarlosX360 boards fixed!

A month before this error happened, I moved servers. It's been causing problems for a while, and had thought of installing wordpress onto the same root as www.carlosx360.me (which is where boards.carlosx360.me resides, obviously - its my intention. To ease confusion. And organized.) I realized I'd done a mistake, and canceled the "transfer." So that probably caused an overwrite of htaccess.

I solved it in this thread. But my vbulletin instance has been running slow when I check "what's going on?" Everytime I click an IP address, it pauses. Everytime I reload the page from that link on the upper right corner, it pauses. On top of this, sitemap isn't "generating" the sitemaps and has been doing this for a month without me knowing. I checked the e-mail address associated with receiving them sitemap results. All the time. For some strange reason it stopped coming.

I checked the sitemaps generator this morning, and have found a big, fat red box warning me that I should make downloads.dat writable.

So today, I made downloads.dat writable - but I thought I already made the data folder writable? What the hell? Do I leave it like that?

I see yahoo and google diggin' my forum...But something isn't right...

I'm considering moving to my very own server. And not be on a friend's server. *Sigh*

When you move to new servers, files that were MADE by the old server may carry chown permissions of the old server which blocks on the new server.

downloads.dat is one of those files. Sometimes, the best way is to simply delete the file and let the new server make the new file. You WILL lose download stats, but most people delete these after 30 days anyway.