Forums hang

[I, Brian]

I upgraded to 3.5, then installed vbSEO uploading in binary, used the plugins option to install...

But the forums simply hang - whenever I have the vbSEO plugin selected as active, the forums simply don't load - no error message, the page load simply hangs.

I've looked at the troubleshooting guide and uncommented the .htaccess line for "RewriteBase" and the folder used, ie, "RewriteBase/forum" but no change.

I can't even access the vbseo control panel.

Any helpful suggestions welcome.

[Juan Muriente]

Hello Brian,

What kind of error do you get when trying to access vbseocp.php?

Do you have access to your httpd.conf file?

[I, Brian]

About the only error I could get was a time-out error.

The server has Zend and Ioncube installed, so I used the Zend form. No idea what's happening, though.

[Juan Muriente]

Ok, try adding a rewrite rule (within .htaccess) like this:

RewriteRule ^(hello/)$ http://www.google.com [L]

then visit directory 'hello', it should redirect you to google.

If the above doesn't work, ensure that your httpd.conf directives allow per-directory mod_rewrite directives in .htaccess file(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/how...l#troubleshoot)

Let me know if this helps

[I, Brian]

That redirects to Google...

I had placed the .htaccess file in the forum folder - that's when it would hang.

I since tried the .htaccess in the site root, with RewriteBase designating the forum folder - but this simply lead to a 500 error.

I already have a directory and news section using mod_rewrite from the site root - I believe it is an apache mod_rewrite module as well so I don;t understand why it's not behaving.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hm.. have you tried vBSEO encrypted with Ioncube?

[I, Brian]

Works with Ioncube version.

Modifying settings in vbseocp now...

[I, Brian]

Looking good - all working fine - thanks for that.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Ok, great