404 images interfering with WOL

hi,

I am facing a problem where viewing index.php shows an Unknown location in Who's online. (its pointing to images that gives a 404)

I am sure it is not caused by any mod. It is caused due to my editing of forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and level2 template where I have added a code to display image icons for forums (these are not forumstatus icons, just a display icon besides forumtitle). I used forumid variable ofcourse.

Now, I do not want icons for all forums. Thus, there's a 404 for those images in the code, but that doesn't matter and it looks fine.

SO why does WOL having a problem with that? Why 404 images on forumhome interfering with Whos online feature?

In short, Whenever I view index.php or forumdisplay.php, and if any of the forums have 404 image icons, then it shows an Unknown location to that 404 image in WOL.

Disabling vbseo alone does not solve the problem BUT removing htaccess along with it, does solve it.

I am using vbseo 3.2.0 with vbulletin 3.7.4 PL1. My htaccess is here as you can see with one line modified as suggested by oleg sir!

Thank you

I also tried removing all my template edit and achieved exactly the same thing via plugins. But the WOL problem persists! Showing Unknown location on index.php and forumdisplay.php

vbseo will process anything that isn't a real file or a directory.

so, when it's missing, it hits vbseo.php. vbseo has a 404 handelr built into it, which is why you see the request show as a 404 page.


The real fix here is to do a file system lookup in your plugin, and only display the img src IF the file exists.

PHP Code:


  <?php
$filename = '/path/to/images/'. $foruminfo[forumid].'.gif';

if (file_exists($filename)) {
//print img src like you're doing now.
} 
?>

wow thank you soo much! worked great. So we can't call it a bug?

not a bug. poor plugin development