multiple domain/forum/vbseo/htaccess

[optrex]

I have 2 domains and 2 forums. They are with the same host package with different "home directories"

Forum A is in \directoryA with vba running the index.php and the forum is on forum.php my instance on vbseo runs fine. The url is foruma.com and points to the \directoryA

Forum B is in \directoyB\forum with the forum running on index.php while vba is in \directoryB running index.php. The url is forumb.com and points to the \directoryB

my vbseo for forum B is in \directoryB\forum\vbseo

I currently have \directoryB\.htaccess as "rewrite off" (to block the changes made by the forum A vbseo rewrite) and \directoryB\forum\.htaccess as "rewrite on" with the line inserted for the sitemap rewrite.

However, this means that my url for google is forumb.com\forum which messes up the stats and verification in Google once the sitemap has been submitted.

How do I change the .htaccess files so that the sitemap as far as google is concerned is in the top level of the domain?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

I currently have \directoryB\.htaccess as "rewrite off" (to block the changes made by the forum A vbseo rewrite) and

It should not be interfered, once directoryA and directoryB are different folders.

However, this means that my url for google is forumb.com\forum which messes up the stats and verification in Google once the sitemap has been submitted.

What exactly is the error you get?

[optrex]

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello,

It should not be interfered, once directoryA and directoryB are different folders.


What exactly is the error you get?

If I remove the "rewrite off" then I get a error 400 internal server error on my forumb.com\index.php page.

I had to do that with a third site I run with php pages too when I set vbseo up on my first forum. See here Multiple websites on one server (where you suggested rewrite off in the support ticket)


The error I get from google is that the site needs to be verified at its top level domain ie forumb.com not forumb.com/forum

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

If you have problems with google verification, you should set ""File Not Found" requests handling?" option to " Send 404 HTTP code " in vbseocp.

[optrex]

Thanks Oleg - but I still have problems.

If I go to google webmaster tools and manage the site url I have given mydomain.com/forum and goto "crawl stats" it tells me "To see statistics for this site, verify at the root (mydomain.com) level."

If I do as it asks and verify at root domain level then because of the way I have to setup my .htaccess it cannot find my sitemap file.

Personally I would prefer to submit the root rather than the /forum address. So what do I need to do to allow it to see my sitemap, bearing in mind my .htaccess requirements (above) ?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

If I do as it asks and verify at root domain level then because of the way I have to setup my .htaccess it cannot find my sitemap file.

You don't have top submit sitemap in order to verify your site with google. You can have sitemap in mydomain.com/forum/ entry, while checking other stats under mydomain.com entry.

[optrex]

OK. By doing that will it all index correctly under the root domain when it eventally gets listed?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

It doesn't affect the indexing of your domain root pages.

[optrex]

My fears have been confirmed. My domain is getting indexed under domain.com/forum not domain.com

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

I don't see any pages indexed for site - Google Search at the moment. Perhaps your homepage has not been indexed yet.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

How to put sitemap in domain root:
Sitemap in www root

[optrex]

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

How to put sitemap in domain root:
Sitemap in www root

I can't do that though, as described in the issues above, which is what is giving me the problem.

Both sites are hosted on the same shared package which is what is causing me the problems.

I have midlandsweather.org.uk in the hosting package root /

its index file is vba portal file and is located in /index.php and its forum is in /forum.php the .htaccess is as follows

# 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 /
 
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*.(xml|txt)(.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
 
   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "libwww-perl/" bad_bot
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
   Deny from env=bad_bot

To allow my other sites to function with their php I have to add the following to their home directory share

so tamworthweather.org.uk has the following htaccess in its home folder /tamworthweather

RewriteEngine off

nzweather is in the home directory /nzeather

it has a vba portal page at /nzweather/index.php and its forum is /nzweather/forum/index.php

To allow both pages to work I have to use

RewriteEngine off

in the /nzweather folder

and

# 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 /forum
 
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*.(xml|txt)(.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
 
   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "libwww-perl/" bad_bot
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
   Deny from env=bad_bot

in the /nzweather/forum folder

however this means that to access my sitemap the url I have to give is nzweather/forum

If I put the above .htaccess in the /nzweather folder I get internal server errors.

What do I need to do, cos its driving me crazy

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

.htaccess to put in /nzweather folder is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

[optrex]

that .htaccess is fine on my vba page and forum home, but when I goto the forum pages or posts I get error 404 not found

[optrex]

ah, I think I may have it sorted. Should the .htaccess in /nzweather/forum remain as it is?