500 Error *only* with .htaccess from VBSEO install?

Well, I'm not sure what's going on here.

I haven't gone through the entire .htaccess file yet, since I assume there is a common issue I'm up against here.

I had vB 3.7.4 Patch Level1 installed and working fine. The forum has no member yet (luckily!). I went to install vBSEO. I went through the steps and it installed.

I also installed the vBSEO plugin. It appeared at the top of my navigation menu in my adminCP in vBul.

So... I went in and looked at some settings. I changed two settings... one was to "display social bookmarking" and the other was to "display social bookmarking icons for blog entries." That's it.

I hit "save" and got a 500 error - for the first time.

Next, I went into my vB main front page... 500 error again.

I then blew out the old .htaccess file in my forum home directory and replaced it with a new one from the install package. Still a 500 error when trying to access vBSEO through the plug-in.

Now, by some miracle, I have no 500 error at all.

Was it the displaying of social bookmarkings for blogs? Because now that I'm back into the vBSEO control panel (using a fresh .htaccess), that has been disabled.

Does anyone know why I was getting that error, based on my actions, or do I need to dig deeper?

Hello,

do you have any related details in the server's error log?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello,

do you have any related details in the server's error log?

I will try and find that (it's hosted elsewhere). For now, I will leave this thread as something to come back to once I have a test site up and running. Thanks.