Category pages not found when using .html in seo friendly url

Hello,

I just wanted to start using categories and noticed I got a page not found. I disabled vBSEO CMS rewriting and then it does work. Tried various settings until I tried the default options, which work too.

I'd like to use

Code:

category/[category_id]-[category_title].html

instead of

Code:

category/[category_id]-[category_title]/

basically replacing the trailing / with .html but it results in vBulletin throwing a page not found. Any ideas what causes this?

TIA!

You need to make sure your category urls will not conflict with any other rewrite rules.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

You need to make sure your category urls will not conflict with any other rewrite rules.

Yeah I did that, or tried that is. Also checked for actual files/folders that might conflict. But if that would be the problem wouldn't the default options like

Code:

category/[category_id]-[category_title]/

fail as well? It only results in a page not found when I add the ".html" part.

Do you have something else that matches
category/DIGITS-WORDS.html
?

Perhaps, pagination where the ID is.

.html and / would make it 2 different urls and not conflict.

Yes. Pagination:

Code:

category/[category_id]-[category_title]-page[page].html

Makes sense now, thanks