Just installed VbSEO - First PROBLEM :(

Bloggeries Blog Forum 74.101.167.197 /forum/blog-templates/ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 403

When accessing that folder I Get this error. Any thoughts?

Hi Rob,

Do you have a conflicting .htaccess in that folder or any above it?

vBSEO doesn't send 403 headers as far as I am aware.

Originally Posted by Ace Shattock

Hi Rob,

Do you have a conflicting .htaccess in that folder or any above it?

vBSEO doesn't send 403 headers as far as I am aware.

Not that I'm aware of, by "above it"; where exactly do you mean?

Thanks,
Rob

I mean, any folders above that one.

Is it a physical folder, or a forum, or a CRR, or what?

Hi,


it's in Bloggeries Blog Forum,

there is a .htaccess in the www folder and one in the /forum.

FWIW Blog Templates is the ONLY folder affected. That help?

Is it a real folder, or a forum?

Are you able to access it with vBSEO disabled?

Not sure what you mean by real folder or forum, it's a category within my forum.

I disabled vbSEO and tried blog templates, didn't work. HOWEVER even when I went to other folders

Blog Addons and Extras - Bloggeries Blog Forum

It still came out vbSEO SEO friendly URL's even though i disabled it and the vbSEO didn't show up in footer or anything... Why could it be just this one folder?

Rob

You can check via FTP whether you have a folder named "blog-templates" in your forums root folder. If you have it, there is a conflict with SEOed URL.

Just checked FTP, no Blog-Templates in the folder at all. Any other suggestions? Works on EVERYTHING but that one...

Do you have any Custom Rewrite Rules defined in vbseocp? Is your .htaccess a default one from vBSEO package?

Hi Oleg,

I've never touched vbseocp and the .htaccess was the one from the package.

Should I try renaming the category??

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Do you have any Custom Rewrite Rules defined in vbseocp? Is your .htaccess a default one from vBSEO package?

Yes, please try that.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Yes, please try that.

Hi Oleg,

Same error message. Maybe just make a new category?? (just i have lots of posts in there). Not THAT important but i'd like to keep them

Could you please open a support ticket with ftp/admincp access for troubleshooting?