Subforums´ htaccess links don´t work and also error page

Second bug reporting of today

I´ve put new German stopwords (and "&" as stopword) in my vbseocp. Now many threads changed their htaccess urls. For example: www.domian.com/thing-and-thing.html --> www.domain.com/thing-thing.html that´s correct.

By the way: It´s true, that the "old" URL is linked with 301 to the new one, isn´t it?

But the same thing for subforums: www.domain.com/thing-and-thing ---> www.domain.com/thing-thing but there comes an error page (the standart vbulletin error page (!) for links, which aren´t there anymore) and no link (301) to the new url.

And the second bug is, that my error page, i´ve signed in the vbseocp (as: /var/www/web1/html/error.php is that correct?) doesn´t work! But in my cms it works!

Hello shaochun,

By the way: It´s true, that the "old" URL is linked with 301 to the new one, isn´t it?

This is true, but only for the original (dynamic) vB URLs like forumdisplay.php?f=xxx, showthread.php?t=xxx etc. If you have changed the SEO URL format in your forums, you should manually setup a redirection in .htaccess because vBSEO has no information about your previous URL format and cannot redirect it.

For instance, insert the following on the top of all other rewrite rules (right after "RewriteEngine on" line):

RewriteRule ^thing-and-thing\.html$ thing-thing.html [L,R=301]

And the second bug is, that my error page, i´ve signed in the vbseocp (as: /var/www/web1/html/error.php is that correct?) doesn´t work!

Do you mean using this page as "Custom 404 error handler" in vbseocp? Which error do you get when it is used?

?? When you edit an Threadtitle it isn´t linked by 301 to the new URL?
But in a normal forum you often edit threadtitles don´t you?

Or did you mean only in case of the stopwords i´ve signed in the vbseocp?

I think I can´t put all threads with stopwords into the htaccess, or what dou mean?
Or only the subforums?

You can edit the thread title, he just means if you change the thread title FORMAT (via the vbseocp.php).

That means stopwords? I didn´t change the format of the thread titles, only the stopwords or is that a format of the thread titles?

So change stopwords ---> "old" urls without 301 but linkded with ne "new" htaccess url ?

Nothing to do with stopwords.


The thread format defaults to: [forum_title]/[thread_id]-[thread_title].html

I think he's saying that if you change that around after search engines have indexed it, it won't give you a 301 redirect from the old format because it has no way of knowing what your old format was. So, you would have to manually add the redirect in your .htaccess.

I think I can´t put all threads with stopwords into the htaccess, or what dou mean?
Or only the subforums?

Ah, you mean thread title part changes.. It's ok to change thread titles freely - the URLs will be 301-redirected to new pages automatically.

The .htaccess redirection rules may be required only when:
- you have changed the URLs format
- subforum URL has changed (it is not processed in the same way as thread URLs)

Ah, you mean thread title part changes.. It's ok to change thread titles freely - the URLs will be 301-redirected to new pages automatically.

So, when i´ve got vbseo, i´ve run it without stopwords of the German language. Since Version 2.2.0 i´m running it with German stopwords. So, at first there were urls like /thing-ist-thing.html (ist=is; german - english), and since version 2.20 it´s like this: /thing-thing.html for exapmle. Is that redirected with 301 form old url to new (with stopwords now)?

Why give the browser me an 404 Page, when i klick on an old URL of a Subforum, which still have the stopword in the url? Why doesn´t it redirect me to the new url?

EDIT: Un-necessary reply. Please delete.

Hmh...
Ok, maybe i don´t unterstand it . I´ll read it once more.

Did you have the thread id included in your thread format (before and after)?

shaochun,

you should separate those:

- thread URLs ARE redirected automatically

- subforums URLs are NOT redirected automatically, so you should set redirection manually for them in .htaccess

Did you have the thread id included in your thread format (before and after)?

Yes I have. Only with stopwords now. Since Version 2.2.0.
I didn´t change the format of the thread titles, I only put German stopwords since 2.2.0 in the vbseocp.

@oleg:

In case of the new stopwords i´ve been used since 2.2.0 ?

Or in general: When I edit an thread title, there is a redirection, but when I edit an subforum title, there is no redirection to the new?

ShowThread pages will be automatically redirected in both cases:
- title has been edited
- stopwords list is modified and title changes correspondingly

But not the subforums´ urls...?

Sorry for my questions, but conversation is a little bit difficult for me, maybe i should speak moren English at all