Attachments broken when vBSEO active

Hi there,

I have the latest version of vBSEO (3.3.2), but when it is enabled, my attachments do not work. Thumbnails are broken, and the path shown includes things like the rewritten forum URL. I am storing my attachments in the filesystem, under /forums/attachments. Disabling vBSEO allows the attachments to be displayed properly, but enabling vBSEO makes them all broken links once again.

Is there a special setting, tip, or trick that I need to use in order to make my filesystem-stored attachments to display correctly?

Note: The problem is identical to this user's problem from earlier this year here. Even the weird URLs/paths that the user is posting match mine directly.

Thanks!

Hello,

I have flagged this for a developer to review. Did you try the attachment rebuild as Mert suggests in that thread?

Hello Juan,

could you please open a ticket with ftp/vbseo cp access for troubleshooting?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello Juan,

could you please open a ticket with ftp/vbseo cp access for troubleshooting?

Absolutely, Oleg. I've updated the ticket with these details.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Hello,

I have flagged this for a developer to review. Did you try the attachment rebuild as Mert suggests in that thread?

Hi, Brian,

I did not find an option to rebuild attachments, only attachment "thumbnails". Turning off vBSEO restored the attachments perfectly. Here is a link to an example as to where they are broken:

Star Prophecy - Aelyria

This happens in all instances of attachments while vBSEO is active. Deactivating vBSEO fixes the problem immediately. Do you think that rebuilding thumbnails will correct the situation? I'll give it a shot.

Juan

Hello Juan ,

Please try adding .att extension to your attachment rewrite rules.

Thanks, Mert! That fixed it.

You're welcome

I seem to be having a similar problem with Personal Photo Albums -- thumbnails are displaying just fine, but the actual pictures are not. You can see this in action here:

Aelyria

Try clicking on the thumbnail of my photo at the Taj Mahal, and it will show a blank image (viewing the source reveals a URL that includes /forums/members/kaelon in the URL). Is there a CRR or setting that I should be looking at to try and correct this somewhere?

I was re-reviewing this problem this evening with another script, and I was wondering: How did vBSEO figure out how to resolve this issue?

Is this because on some server configurations, static file extensions are reserved for actual files handled by the web server, and are not permitted to be rewritten? Or is there another problem that adding the .att fixed? I'm having an issue with another mod that allows us to display a custom URL with a file-extension in the URL, and this age-old problem reared its head again.

I'm hoping you guys can share your wisdom on how we solved this, and why adding the .att was the solution in my problem so that I can pass it along to the developer.

Adding .att (or any extension that doesn't truly exist for that matter) allows the jpg/gif/png to bypass vbseo without exclusively making rules for images to bypass vbseo.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Hello Juan ,

Please try adding .att extension to your attachment rewrite rules.

Where exactly is this done in 3.5.1 PL1?

go tot he advanced tab in the Forum URLs section and you will find attachment rules. Copy your preset into the custom box, and add .att to the end of it.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

go tot he advanced tab in the Forum URLs section and you will find attachment rules. Copy your preset into the custom box, and add .att to the end of it.

Got it. Unfortunately, it didn't solve my broken attachments. Thanks though.