Invalid Forum specified. msg!

[Forum Lover]

Hey there,

http://www.joubonjala.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/

I just followed the instruction, and didn't change any default options. But still got this msg..

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

What wrong did I make?

Thanks in advance.

[briansol]

add vbseo_sitemap to the htaccess file exclusions

(find the 2 instances of admicp (one is just admincp, the other is admincp/ (with the folder notation) and add vbseo_sitemap in the same manner using the | ("or" seperator))

[Forum Lover]

Still I did not get you, mate. Newbie is here. :(

[briansol]

open htaccess file

the bottom half looks like this:

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

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

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

you want to add vbseo_sitemap like:

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|gallery/|useralbums/|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|useralbums|vbseo_sitemap)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Note: you may not have gallery or useralbums in yours.. i added those for my custom areas.

[Forum Lover]

# 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 %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
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]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|gallery/|useralbums/|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|useralbums|vbseo_sitemap)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

So, here is my total .htaccess file. briansol, still no luck. :(

[briansol]

no no... don't duplicate it... just add the bold stuff from my post above.


replace your entire file with this:

# 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 %{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|vbseo_sitemap)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[Forum Lover]

briansol... don't know why! but still no result. Got any other option? :(

[briansol]

it's working now, htaccess wise.

the problem you are having

Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/joubonja/public_html/forum/includes/config.php on line 1

is a php error from vbulletin, not vbseo.

You must've entered something weird in your vb config file.

it is probably just a typo.

unexpected ends are usually a double-case of ?> closing php marks,
like

<?php
some code
code co
d
e
?>
?>

or an unfinsihed loop

like

<?php

while ($x) {
do stuff

?>

as in not closing the loop with }

but, the vb config file doesn't have any loops... so that's probably not the case.

make sure every line that isn't a multiple line statement ends in a semi colon ;
and that theres only one openr and closer tag.

if you don't know a line of php, your best option is to make a back up of your current file, and then re-upload the includes/config.php file form the distribution from vbulletin download. then re-enter your database info, etc into the config file.

[Forum Lover]

No, I was working on that time.. I site was off. Now its on again with same old that ugly msg in /forum/vbseo_sitemap/

Can you please check now?

[Forum Lover]

update... Its ok now. Thanks to briansol and Oleg Ignatiuk