htaccess interferes with almost everything

The vbseo htaccess file interferes with just about anything new we want to do.

How do we make forumrunner work?

The plugin is live and running and we downloaded our sitekey.php from the forumrunner site and put it in our forumrunner directly - still doesn't work.

Someone else said:

"Then, he noticed that the vbSEO plugin was now interfering with that directory. (We had updated that plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.6.0 PL2 a few days ago.) So, he added some rewrite rules to our httpd.conf file to make Forumrunner and vbSEO play nice together.

If anyone else has the parse error problem, don't forget to check vbSEO."

Can anyone tell me if that is the problem I'm experiencing or something else and if so, what do I do to fix it?

Also, I want to create a directory in my root directory but it seems that everything is being rejected. Is that another vbseo htaccess problem or not?

Forumrunner functions fully correct on our websites. vBSEO effect in no way of forumrunner at all. Instead of asking other people , please explain the issue you are facing so we can assist. Sorry but i don't care what other people say unless it is a fact. Most of the time other people will voice their opinion on matters they have no idea.

We use both forum runner and Tapatalk without any issues or adding any extra rules to .htaccess

Vbulletin support says to enter the url into the forumrunner site so it can properly validate. (It is the correct url).

Forum runner support (doesn't answer and confirmation email never comes so I pm'd the admin and have been waiting).

This is the error we get when validating it:

In the plugin section, it is live and active.

I went to forum runner's site and got my sitekey.php and put that in the forum runner directory.

When I go to forum runner's site to verify/validate, it says:

Error retrieving the return value from your forum. Please check your installation. You might have also entered the incorrect forum URL in the forum manager. Make sure that the URL is correct, starts with http:// and is the full default path to your forum)
This is the URL that we attempted to fetch: http://energyscienceforum.com/forumrunner/request.php?cmd=version

But the files are there. It is the correct url in forum runner. I even copy and pasted it into a browser to make sure it goes to our forum and it does. That request.php is there in the forumrunner directory.

The VBseo htaccess file prevented us from upgrading the forum before and would not let the upgrade files be seen even though they were there. Not only disabling vbseo to upgrade but actually renaming the htaccess file was the only thing that allowed those files to be seen. We are seeing a similar problem where files that are there cannot be seen.

Anyway, based on the above description/symptoms, what do you recommend? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I renamed htaccess file and then did the verification for forumrunner and it worked fine.

I had to put the htaccess name back to normal otherwise the posts never show up.

However, I don't know if forumrunner actually will work now since htaccess is back to its correct filename.

So, htaccess was the problem - how do I work around this issue that always comes up?

I can't even make a directory in the root to have other webpages because this htaccess file prevents that from happening. For example, I have this: http://www.energyscienceforum.com/bediniaudio/index.php but it says Page not found. The page IS there. If I rename .htaccess to .htaccessx it then comes up.

VBSEO works like a charm on my other forum but has been a headache on this new one. I do not have programming experience so I left the vbseo htaccess file as is and am limited in being able to do very much with my forum.

You can try excluding forumrunner folder through your htaccess

Downloaded Forumrunner and it works great! As long as the vbseo .htaccess file is renamed.

So how do I disable the forumrunner folder in .htaccess?

I searched through a lot of sites to explain this but they all assume programming knowledge so are not helpful for a beginning.

This is my .htaccess file:

----------------------------------------------------------------

# 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 /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.energyscienceforum\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.energyscienceforum.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|api\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

-----------------------------------------------------------------

I asked my host if this applies:
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)

I removed those #'s from the 3 lines and I didn't see a difference. So,
I'll wait to hear from them.

But does anyone have any ideas as to why
forumrunner, etc... works fine for others but VBSEO's .htaccess file is preventing
anything from working for me?

Forumrunner's support is horrible. I still never received a confirmation email for
the forum and the admin doesn't reply to private messages.

Problem solved -

I moved hosting from Fatcow to Host Gator and all is well.

Forumrunner works great. Just a few things to tidy up but it was
definitely the host. They tried to keep giving me links to mysql support
pages until finally after 19 days one of them said they would not increase
the database connections - another problem I was having.

Anyway, all other folders can be found now - so STAY AWAY FROM
FATCOW.COM HOSTING!

You moved to a terrible host , i highly suggest to move away from hostgator.