Lost vbseo Control Panel password

I have recently purchased the latest versions of vBulletin and your vbseo software and upgraded my forum Windows Help Forum to these latest versions.

However I find that my post links are all broken. See for example:
http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/thre...able-hard-disk!

I have lost the password of the vbseo control / admin panel: vbseocp.php

What should I do now? Please help.

Hello,

Since this is your first post here on vBSEO.com, I would like to give you welcoming .

To restore your vBSEO CP password, find this example code in vbseo/resources/xml/config.xml file:

Code:

<name>VBSEO_ADMIN_PASSWORD</name>
<value>e85f53339435a304f340bb767c8ad301</value>

Delete alpha numeric code:

Code:

<name>VBSEO_ADMIN_PASSWORD</name>
<value></value>

Then try to set a new password by going to vbseocp.php.

Now, you may want to redirect all your indexed threads, if so, please try to put this line in your .htaccess file right after "RewriteEngine On" line:

Code:

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)-(.+)$ http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

If you have any other question, feel free to ask for help .

Thanks Chuta, that was a detailed reply.

I recovered my password, btw.

You're welcome , but I actually can see that thread URLs with old format aren't redirecting. Please let me know if the RewriteRule I've supplied worked for you.

Regards.

I have no clue about this.
What was the old format? and What's the new format?

You said that this was the old format:

http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/thre...able-hard-disk

And you want to redirect it to new vBSEO'ed format. So put the RewriteRule in your .htaccess file as I mentioned above.