Some .htaccess questions

Hi, just thinking of making a purchase, I wanted to check there wouldn't be any clashes with my existing set up. Firstly, my forum lives in the /forums/ directory of the site, there's no .htaccess in the root forum folder.

In the root of the domain I already have a .htaccess file that's pointing the pointing the www to the non www version of the site and also a redirect of a section to another section thus:

Code:

RewriteEngine On

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^site\.co.uk$
RewriteRule (.*) http://site.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect permanent /example http://site.co.uk/example/2005

Now, I know a lot of people use similar .htaccess files, but I was wondering if that would pose any problems for vBseo, and if it would continue to forward the www to the non www within the /forums/ folder?

Also, I have modcp and admincp folders password protected - will vbseo interfere with them in any way?

I must point out rewrites and .htaccess files are a bit of a mystery to me so if these questions seem a bit dull, my apologies!

Hello David ,

Your .htaccess will not cause any trouble at all. Here is the default .htaccess content that comes with vBSEO. As you can see it will not be a problem at all

Code:

# 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} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]