404 Not Found after move

I just moved my website to a new host, and I am having trouble getting vBSEO to work. When I visit rewriten links, I get a 404 error which states that "the requested .../.../vbseo.php was not found on this server."

What could be causing this, and what can I do to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Did you verify that the vbseo.php file is on the new server. Did you make any changes, such as the domain name, or folder the forum is in, etc?

Hello Philip ,

Please download config_vbseo.php to your pc , manually edit the file and look for the following setting

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         ''); 


Add your forum path between two brackets. Save and reupload the file. then login to your vBSEO Control Panel and save settings without changing anything

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Did you verify that the vbseo.php file is on the new server. Did you make any changes, such as the domain name, or folder the forum is in, etc?

The vbseo.php file is on the new server. Before migrating to the new server I updated vBSEO to its newest version, and checked so that everything was working on the first server.

The folder that the forum is in is changed, along with the domain. Before redirecting the DNS I am using a temporary "domain" to check if things work.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Hello Philip ,

Please download config_vbseo.php to your pc , manually edit the file and look for the following setting

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         ''); 


Add your forum path between two brackets. Save and reupload the file. then login to your vBSEO Control Panel and save settings without changing anything

I'll try this out and get back to you

I am not able to access my AdminCP to complete your instructions because I get the same 404 error as on other pages.

That is not in the admincp.
/forums/includes/config_vbseo.php

you need to ftp the file down locally, edit it, ftp upload it back.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Hello Philip ,

Please download config_vbseo.php to your pc , manually edit the file and look for the following setting

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         ''); 


Add your forum path between two brackets. Save and reupload the file. then login to your vBSEO Control Panel and save settings without changing anything

Originally Posted by briansol

That is not in the admincp.
/forums/includes/config_vbseo.php

you need to ftp the file down locally, edit it, ftp upload it back.

Mert suggests that I edit the file, and upload it to the server. However, he then says that I should login to my vBSEO CP and save the settings.

If anyone knows what is wrong I would really appreciate it if they could share their wisdom

yes, AFTER you do what i suggest.

do this exactly

Ftp down
edit
ftp up
log in
save settings


When you change the docroot, you should be able to login again

Originally Posted by briansol

yes, AFTER you do what i suggest.

do this exactly

Ftp down
edit
ftp up
log in
save settings


When you change the docroot, you should be able to login again

I have done that, but I am not able to save settings since I don't have access to the AdminCP.

go direct to the vbseo file...

http://yoursite.com/forums/vbseocp.php

Tried that, and it still gives me the 404 error. Could this have anything to do with the domain name not being correct? At the moment I am visiting the site through the server IP/folder/folder etc.

vbseo and vbulletin only works on 1 domain, as defnied in the vb options, not IP. so yes, that very well may be the problem you're having.

Still having problems with this. I have redirected the domain to the new server, and whenever I visit a URL which should be rewritten, I get this (shortened version):

PHP Code:

<?php

/************************************************************************************
* vBSEO 3.2.0 for vBulletin v3.x.x by Crawlability, Inc.
*                                                                                   *
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*----------------------------vBSEO IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE-----------------------------*
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************************************************************************************/

error_reporting(0);
include_once('includes/functions_vbseo.php');
include_once('includes/' . VBSEO_VB_CONFIG);
if(isset($_GET['vbseourl']))
$vbseo_url_ =  $_GET['vbseourl'];
else
{
list($vbseo_url_, $vbseo_url_par) = explode('?', VBSEO_REQURL);
$vbseo_url_ = urldecode($vbseo_url_);
}
if (ini_get("magic_quotes_gpc"))
{
$vbseo_url_ = stripslashes($vbseo_url_);
}
$vbseo_fullurl = VBSEO_TOPREL . $vbseo_url_;
$vbseo_url_suggest = '';
switch ($vbseo_url_)
{
case 'vbseo.php':
exit;
break;
case 'vbseo_sitemap.php':
case 'vbseocp.php':
case 'cron.php':
case 'cron.html':
include $vbseo_url_;
exit;
break;
}
if (VBSEO_IN_PINGBACK && ($vbseo_url_ == 'vbseo-xmlrpc/'))
{
if (!defined('THIS_SCRIPT'))
@define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'newreply');
include dirname(__FILE__) . '/global.' . VBSEO_VB_EXT;
vbseo_extra_inc('linkback');
vbseo_xmlrpc_proc();
exit;
}
if (VBSEO_REDIRECT_PRIV_EXTERNAL && ($vbseo_url_ == VBSEO_REDIRECT_URI))
{         
$uredir = urldecode($_GET['redirect']);
$uredir = preg_replace('#&(?![a-z0-9\#]+;)#si', '&amp;', $uredir);
$uredir = str_replace('"', '&quot;', $uredir);
if (preg_match('#^https?:\/\/#', $uredir) && !preg_match('#["<>]#', $uredir))
{
echo '<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=' . $uredir . '"></head><body></body></html>';
exit;
}
}
if (!VBSEO_ENABLED && preg_match('#^(.*?\.php)/(.*)$#', $vbseo_url_, $vu_match) &&
file_exists($vu_match[1]))
$vbseo_url_ = $vu_match[1];
define('VBSEO_BASEURL', basename($vbseo_url_));
global $vbseo_gcache, $found_object_ids;
if(isset($_GET['vbseorelpath']))
$vbseo_relpath = $_GET['vbseorelpath'];
if(!file_exists($vbseo_relpath))
$vbseo_relpath = '';
define('VBSEO_RELPATH', $vbseo_relpath != '');
if (VBSEO_RELPATH)
chdir($vbseo_relpath);
if (vbseo_security_check($vbseo_url_))
vbseo_404();
$vbseo_file_exists = (file_exists($vbseo_url_) 
|| (file_exists(basename($vbseo_url_)) && strstr($vbseo_url_, '.' . VBSEO_VB_EXT))) 
&& ($vbseo_url_[strlen($vbseo_url_)-1] != '/');
$vbseo_file_exists_deep = file_exists($vbseo_url_) && strstr($vbseo_url_, '/');
$vbseo_found = false;
define('VBSEO_PREPROC', 1);
$vbseo_proc = VBSEO_ENABLED && !defined('VBSEO_UNREG_EXPIRED');
if ($vbseo_proc)
{

The contents of my .htaccess located in the /forum/ directory is the following:

# 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/

#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]

RemoveHandler .html .htm AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

This is getting very tiring, could someone please help me?

if you're actually seeing php output, you php installation is fubar.

Originally Posted by briansol

if you're actually seeing php output, you php installation is fubar.

That is what I thought at first aswell, but I am able to access my index.php for vBAdvanced as normal. So this can be ruled out...

Any other suggestions?