Changing style gives an error

When changing style from the Quick style chooser, our forum gives a 404. We are running vBulletin and vBSEO on a win server.

Any clue why this is happening? When clicking on a style through admincp, it doesn't change the style.

Only way to change the style is through the usercp.

Hello,

what is the resulting URL that gives 404 error and what are your current rewrite rules?

The URL is for example this:

http://www.pokerimestari.com/?styleid=27

And these are the customrewriterules:


'^view\.php\?pg=([\w\-]+)$'=>'$1'
'^cmps_index\.php$' => 'uutiset/'

isapi rewrite:

# this block determines how to handle sitemap
RewriteCond Host: .*pokerimestari.com
RewriteRule ^/((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]


# this block determines common rules for vBulletin
RewriteCond Host: .*pokerimestari.com
#RewriteCond URL ^/(?!admincp/|modcp/|clientscript/|cpstyles/|images/|search\.php).*
RewriteCond URL ^/(?!pokeriblogi/|admincp/|modcp/|clientscript/|cpstyles/|images/|search\.php).*
RewriteRule ^/(.+?)(?:\?(.*))?$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1(?2&$2) [L]

Please try to change this line:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/(.+?)(?:\?(.*))?$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1(?2&$2) [L]

to:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/(.*?)(?:\?(.*))?$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1(?2&$2) [L]

Must be specific to Windows Server. I can change styles from the main index and from admincp. I can't from within a forum page or thread page. I've been trying to traqck it down since I installed vbseo and can't put a finger on the problem.

Since I use v3 here are my rules.

Code:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.0.0.31

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCompatibility2 On
RepeatLimit 200

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www\.justbs\.us$
RewriteRule (.*) http\://justbs\.us/$1 [NC,R=301]

#vbSEO
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
#RewriteRule ^(urllist|sitemap).*\.(?:xml|txt)(?:\.gz)?$ /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1  [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ 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]

Here is a link that doesn't work from within a forum http://justbs.us/on-topic-bs/?styleid=5

Style changes work fine from the index. Hit the index and use the style chooser and you'll see that it has no problem.

Originally Posted by AWS

Must be specific to Windows Server. I can change styles from the main index and from admincp. I can't from within a forum page or thread page. I've been trying to traqck it down since I installed vbseo and can't put a finger on the problem.

We have a similar issue, and yes we are on a Windows server.

I too am having this issue, Windows server.

The issue seems to be when the filename is missing, i.e. url.com/?styleid=1

If you have url.com/index.php?styleid=1 it works fine.

I did solve this issue once before on isapirewrite v2, and that was by putting "\?styleid=" after the admincp|clientscript| entries, my basic understanding is that it was telling vbseo not to process the link or whatever and just let the server handle it, where it actually works, but since we moved to v3.1 of Isapirewrite this no longer seems to have the same effect.

I'd appreciate it if a member of the vbseo team could maybe try the new isapirewrite version and maybe formulate some rules for it, as they have changed syntax a bit and I'd like to know that they're being imported correctly and working correctly.

Thanks

Hello,

pleae try to manually disable this option in config_vbseo.php file:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CLEANUP_REDIRECT',       0); 


Thanks for the reply, I'm afraid that doesn't seem to have an effect on the issue.

I'm not sure if you're familair with isapirewrite, but a rule to rewrite the url /?styleid= to index.php/?styleid= would fix this issue for most people, but I'm not familar with writing this kind of syntax so wouldn't know where to start.

Also for the vbSEO rules to work with v3 you need to enable v2 compatibility, see here: RewriteCompatibility2 which is why I asked if the rules could be written for v3 so they weren't using compatibility features from the previous version. Altho very little changes are made, basically just URL to %{REQUEST_URI}

My company have bought the v3 so downgrading to the v2 isn't an option.

Thanks for your time.

I got this fixed.

Here are my rules which work with isapi rewrite 3. Changing style within forums and threads now work.

Code:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.0.0.31

RewriteEngine On
RepeatLimit 200
RewriteBase /
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]

Hope this helps.

Fantastic Bob, dropped them straight in, had to add RewriteBase / but with that every problem solved, even sorted the trailing slash on folder names, I'd been adding folders we needed manually to the original rules and it was getting quite a mess.

Big relief for me, thanks

Craig

Your welcome.
I actually forgot RewriteBase /. I do have it in my .htaccess.
I edited my post to include it in case this helps any other with IIS.

Thanks for posting this!

This actually helped us out as we were not sure which rules we should use! Little did we know that they are contained in the vBSEO package, isapi_rewrite.txt file.