Migrated to new server, and vbseo stopped working. Help

1. Copied all my forum files to my new dedicated server
2. installed zend optimizer
3. I can hit the forum front, but the thread urls dont work. They 404.
4. When i go the to the vbulletin panel and disable vbseo, the threads work - that is i can access them.

Please can someone hop me get my forum working with vbseo again?

Also I have tried going to http://www.vbseo.com/support/ to raise a ticket but i cant figure out what my username or password for it is.

Please help!

anyone, please help!

Have you uploaded your .htaccess?

Also the new version of vbseo does not need zend optimizer.

Yes i have uploaded it.

I am running vb3.0, which i think needs zend optimizer.

I've now had to disable vbseo to make the forum work. But i will need it back to make all my backlinks work.


Here is my .htaccess

# 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\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

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]


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vbulletin is installed in my public_html/forums folder while wordpress is installed in my public_html folder . The .htaccess file for the wordpress install is

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
Options All -Indexes

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The wordpress works finde, but vbseo on vbulletin doesnt.

If i reinstall vbseo, or install the new version- vbSEO 3.1, will it generate exactly the same links as before?

Hello,

you should remove '#' from this line:
#RewriteEngine On

Thanks Oleg for reminding me to take the # out. I had put it there to see if turning of rewrite could solve my problem. It didn't. Turning it on (by taking the hash out) also did not resolve my problem.

I tried reinstalling vbseo, but that also did not solve my problem. When i finished reinstalling vbseo and tried to hit http://myforum/vbseocp.php, i got a 404

It took many hours, but i finally found out what the problem was. When my files where copied over to the new server, for some reason the
permissions on the vbseo files in my vbulletin forums directory changed to something like -rwxr--r-- . Reinstalling (even though i had deleted the previous files) also left the permssions as before. I had to change them to -rwxr-xr-x by running chmod 755 on the 3 vbseo files in my forum directory

vbseocpform.php
vbseocp.php
vbseo.php


That fixed it! Huge sigh of Relief!

Big thanks to the vbseo team for support for quick response and help.

You are welcome!

Hi,
I get same problem.
After the migration I forgot to upload .htaccess file.
Now, if I add it I get an internal server error.

Any help please ?

Please try to uncomment this line in .htaccess:
#RewriteBase /
(replace "/" with your forums folder)

RewriteBase forum

Same problem :(

It should be:
RewriteBase /forum/

If it still doesn't work, please temporarily disable vBSEO and check with your host that new server supports mod_rewrite and rewrite rules are allowed in .htaccess.

Same error.
The server supports mod_rewrite.
Do you think I could try to reinstall vbseo ?

Please try this to check if mod_rewrite is working correctly: [How to] Check if mod_rewrite is working for my site