refresh and other problems

For the past 48 hours my forum has had lots of problems with not being able to refresh pages properly, not logging members in/out, not being able to moderate the gallery etc.

I've tried everything including upgrading vb to 3.6.7pl1, upgrading vbseo to 3.0gold, then disabling plugins in vb and by adding the dissable hooks in the config, using a fresh template etc.

Nothing seems to be fixing it, but one of the issues is that when trying to access pms members are getting something like:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /forums/vbseo.php on line 375

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: rkivrfv65ztjux() in /forums/vbseo.php on line 768

any ideas?

trying to strip everything down to the minimum, I've switched off all plugins except for vbgallery and vbseo, I've removed all old files and I've the diagnostics are just showing the following suspect files:

Suspect File Versions Scanned 47 files
./
vbseo.php File does not contain expected contents
vbseocp.php File does not contain expected contents
vbseocpform.php File does not contain expected contents
Scanned 52 files
./admincp
admin_vbseo.php File does not contain expected contents
vba_gallery_admin.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
Scanned 3 files
./archive Scanned 32 files
./clientscript Scanned 3 files
./clientscript/yui Scanned 2 files
./images/regimage/fonts Scanned 100 files
./includes
adminfunctions_gallery.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
config_vbseo.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
functions_vbseo.php File does not contain expected contents
functions_vbseo_extra.php File does not contain expected contents
Scanned 23 files
./includes/cron Scanned 8 files
gallery_ecard.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
gallery_search.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
gallery_stats.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
gallery_subscriptions.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
gallery_totals.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
./includes/paymentapi Scanned 27 files
./includes/xml
bitfield_vbgallery.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin
cpnav_vbagallery.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin
hooks_vbgallery.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin
vbseo_urls_default.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin
vbseo_urls_vbseocom.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin
vbseocp_arabic.xml File not recognized as part of vBulletin Scanned 69 files
./install Scanned 12 files
./modcp
vba_gallery.php File not recognized as part of vBulletin
vbseo_moderate.php File does not contain expected contents

one comment from a member:

Got these error messages when trying to post a comment on an image:

Warning: main(/home/wildabou/public_html/forums/showimage.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wildabou/public_html/forums/vbseo.php on line 906

Warning: main(/home/wildabou/public_html/forums/showimage.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wildabou/public_html/forums/vbseo.php on line 906

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/wildabou/public_html/forums/showimage.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/wildabou/public_html/forums/vbseo.php on line 906

I Pressed the back key, and low and behold, the comment was there!

I've just taken out the Custom Rewrite Rules

'browseimages\.php\?c=(\d+)$' => 'browse-$1.html'
'browseimages\.php\?c=(d+)&page=(\d+)$' => 'browse-$1-$2.html'
'browseimages\.php\?c=(\d+)&userid=$' => 'browse-$1-albums.html'
'browseimages\.php\?c=(\d+)&userid=(d+)$' => 'browse-$1-user$2.html'
'browseimages\.php\?c=(\d+)&u=(d+)$' => 'browse-$1-user$2.html'
'browseimages\.php\?do=popimages$' => 'top.html'
'browseimages\.php\?do=popimages&orderby=views' => 'topviews.html'
'browseimages\.php\?do=popimages&orderby=rating' => 'toprated.html'
'browseimages\.php\?do=popimages&orderby=posts' => 'toppost.html'
'showimage\.php\?i=(\d+)&noignore=0&postid=(\d+)$' => 'image-$1-$2.html'
'showimage\.php\?i=(\d+)&original=1.*$' => 'image-$1big.html'
'showimage\.php\?i=(\d+).*$' => 'image-$1.html'
'galleryindex\.php' => 'gallery-home.html'

and the Custom 301 Redirects

custom 301 'fungi-mushroom-forums'=>'fungi-forums'

and things seem to be looking a bit better, although it's a bit too early to really know if it's fixed the problems.

Could this be the cause of all the problem?

OK, will do.

What about the rest of the issues? Is this something that's likely to have been caused by VBSEO, and is it rewriter and 301?

Things are looking better on the site this afternoon, and not had any reports that we've still got the problems, but I won't know until later today when most of the traffic usually arrives

I think I've found the problem. My forums are kept in /forums/ and my root has Drupal 5.1 in it. The .htaccess for Drupal seems to be affecting the forums and it appears that above problems only occur when I've got the .htaccess file there. The file includes:


#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
<FilesMatch "(\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh| .*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)|code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$ ">
Order allow,deny
</FilesMatch>

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# PHP 4, Apache 1.
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
</IfModule>

# PHP 4, Apache 2.
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
</IfModule>

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
</IfModule>

# Requires mod_expires to be enabled.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
# Enable expirations.
ExpiresActive On
# Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
ExpiresDefault A1209600
# Do not cache dynamically generated pages.
ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www. you
# can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one option:
#
# If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and
# uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
#
# If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. prefix, adapt
# and uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule .* http://example.com/ [L,R=301]

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
# the rewrite rules are not working properly.
#RewriteBase /drupal

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.81 2007/01/09 09:27:10 dries Exp $




Could you tell me what I need to do to make sure that Drupal doesn't affect the forum.

Thanks

stuart

I found this thread, but I don't speak German...is it any use?

Andere .htaccess - Regeln hinzufügen

I made the changes in post 8 of your link, but login/logout still don't show until I manually refresh the page that follows. All continues to work OK if the .htaccess for drupal is removed

tried it but it didn't work either. :(