Wordpress & Vbseo - same domain

Hi. I have vbulletin with Vbseo installed on domain root (www.mysite.com) and I would like to install Wordpress on "www.mysite.com/blog". I don't want Wordpress to have any conflicts with Vbseo rewrite rules and such. Is this an easy thing to do? What do I need to watch out for? I'd like Wordpress with friendly urls, permalinks, etc. so... Will there be any trouble with Vbseo? Any steps to follow so I can do it correctly? I was thinking to run the installation through Fantastico. Thanks.

Hello,

Add a .htaccess file into the blog folder with RewriteEngine Off inside of it.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Hello,

Add a .htaccess file into the blog folder with RewriteEngine Off inside of it.

Wouldn't that turn off friendly urls for the blog? I need friendly urls. I assume Wordpress has its own .htaccess too.

It should not affect it then. The rewrites will use that particular .htaccess.

Right, wordpress's htaccess file will over-ride anything below it. You won't have problems with this setup.

If you do have issues, it will be before you enable permalinks in wordpress and set up the htaccess file. In that case, you can start with mike's suggestion of turning it off until you have wordpres ready to go to replace it.

So I have wordpress in the domain.com and the forums in the /forums/ folder.

Should I have the forums with rewrite off?
It now cause a loop for my Admin folder.

Having an htaccess folder in the forums folder will over-ride the root rules from wordpress.

If you renamed your admincp folder for security, make sure your htaccess for vbseo is updated to reflect that name change as well.

I changed my htaccess, but I still have that issue.

Hello Chris ,

On which domain do you have this error and can you post both your root and forums folder .htaccess content . If you have restricted access to your admincp folder using .htaccess (Auth directives), please check your apache configuration: having "ErrorDocument 401 401.shtml" directive in httpd.conf requires that "401.shtml" file exists. You should create one if it doesn't to solve the problem.

gunandgame.com is the domain

here is the root htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Here is the forums htaccess

# 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 /forums/

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

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

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

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

Mert - you hit on the subject , as I have the htaccess password restricted.

Is the issue fixed after creating 401.shtml file ?

I'm having similar issue issue.

Now that I've enabled permalink and changed uploaded htaccess and when i try to access my admincp it brings me back to the blog with a 404 error message

Hello,

Are you using WordPress on the same folder the forum is located at?.