New installation.. new questions..

Hi all,

We installed vBseo only few days ago and everything works fine so far, we just have a couple of questions.

My vb setup is on the root folder meaning that my home page is http://www.mysite.com/

I 've moved the .htaccess file inside my httpd.conf as suggested but I am not quite sure if it's correct. The directory part of the conf is:

Code:

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAlias www.mysite.com
DocumentRoot /home/mysite/public_html
ErrorLog /home/mysite/logs/error_log
CustomLog /home/mysite/logs/access_log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/mysite/cgi-bin/
<Directory /home/mysite/public_html>
Options  IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
allow from all
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The site is also available from http://mysite.com and from http://www.mysite.com. How can I forward/redirect/rewrite all traffic from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com?

Thank you

Hello Kon,

Find this:

Code:

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

And replace it with this one:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Then restart Apache to take the changes.

Thank you, I did it and I got this error:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Try instead:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.yoursite.com/$1" [L,R=301]

And let me know if now works fine.

Awesome! Works perfect thank you.

You're welcome! .

One more question if I may.

I have a folder in my public_html called tests. I also have a forum called tests and whenever I point my browser to mysite.com/tests I get a blank page. I temporarily renamed the tests folder and the forum tests now work. Is there anything I can do to have them both working under the same name?

Thank you.

Not without re-naming one of them, or otherwise creating i different url for the test forum (with a slug, or using IDs in the url). The basic concept here is that you cannot 'fake' a directory where one actually exists.

Cheers for the answer, it's not a big deal to rename the folder, i was mainly wondering if it's possible.

Thank you

Another question. Same situation as before. I had a static page that had a lot of traffic in that folder, but I moved it on a post so I can rename it and use the forum name. Is there a way to redirect it, for example from www.mysite.com/tests/page1.html to www.mysites.com/forum2/thread1.html ?

Thanks again.

/tests/ is in the same level as vbseo, and thus isn't processed by it. You will need to set up a generic htaccess redirect in the tests or root folder's htaccess

Code:

redirect 301 /test/page1.html http://www.yourdomain.com/forum2/thread-123.html

Thanks again, worked like a treat

Since you are so nice and answer my questions I will do another one.

Since we enabled vbseo our traffic based from analytics is going up in a steady way. In the other hand we are really going down in Alexa. What exactly does alexa looks at to make it's mind about our traffic and is there any way to improve it?

Thanks again

Alexa only gathers data from users who have Alexa toolbar installed. You should totally ignore Alexa data

Aha, thank you again. I can easily do, unfortunately some advertisers are taking it in account..