Non Vbseo password protected Admin

Hi,

I recently installed VBseo on a site and now have problems accessing the admin section of a separate script.

The non Vbseo admin is located in the cgi-bin..

sitename.com/cgi-bin/dir/admin/admin.cgi

the /cgi-bin/dir/admin/ directory is protected by a htaccess and htpasswd file located at /public_html/cgi-bin/dir/admin/.htaccess


The VBseo htaccess file blocks access to this admin directory.

"page not found" message


this is the section which effects access

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


Could you please help with a fix for this problem.

Try adding this to the .htaccess in your cgi-bin directory:

RewriteEngine Off

Hi,

Sorry but it still blocks access.

RewriteEngine Off has no effect.

Sorry, I meant to add it in this one:

/public_html/cgi-bin/dir/admin/.htaccess

Is that where you added it?

Yes that is where I added it

/public_html/cgi-bin/dir/admin/.htaccess

currently the above htaccess code is...

AuthUserFile /home/accname/public_html/cgi-bin/dir/admin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthName Protected
require valid-user

Hello,

please check your apache configuration (httpd.conf) for Custom Error handlers definitions like:

Code:

ErrorDocument 401 401.html
ErrorDocument 403 403.html
ErrorDocument 404 404.html

and make sure that 401-404.html files are existing in your public_html folder (file names may be different) - you can create empty files if you don't have them.

Hi Oleg,

The ErrorDocuments do exist, I did not bother to check but it seems they also do not work since the VBseo install.

The problem is that I run two scripts which have conflicting htaccess code.

Below is the modified Vbseo htaccess file. I had to combine my old code with the VBseo code for the site to work. (duplicate content issues with the non VBseo script)

If I remove the Vbseo htaccess code, I can access the non Vbseo admin directory and the error docs work, but then vbseo does not work :(

vbulletin index.php is changed to forum.php



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

RewriteRule ^.*N([0-9]+)/?$ /ads/Detailed/$1.html [L]
RewriteRule ^.*L([0-9]+)/?$ /Detailed/$1.html [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.htm$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

ErrorDocument 400 /httperror.php?e=400
ErrorDocument 401 /httperror.php?e=401
ErrorDocument 403 /httperror.php?e=403
ErrorDocument 404 /httperror.php?e=404
ErrorDocument 405 /httperror.php?e=405
ErrorDocument 406 /httperror.php?e=406
ErrorDocument 407 /httperror.php?e=407
ErrorDocument 408 /httperror.php?e=408
ErrorDocument 409 /httperror.php?e=409
ErrorDocument 410 /httperror.php?e=410
ErrorDocument 411 /httperror.php?e=411
ErrorDocument 412 /httperror.php?e=412
ErrorDocument 413 /httperror.php?e=413
ErrorDocument 414 /httperror.php?e=414
ErrorDocument 415 /httperror.php?e=415
ErrorDocument 416 /httperror.php?e=416
ErrorDocument 417 /httperror.php?e=417
ErrorDocument 500 /httperror.php?e=500
ErrorDocument 501 /httperror.php?e=501
ErrorDocument 502 /httperror.php?e=502
ErrorDocument 503 /httperror.php?e=503
ErrorDocument 504 /httperror.php?e=504
ErrorDocument 505 /httperror.php?e=505

# 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=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}forum\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1forum.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Please try to add this line:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !cgi-bin/

right above this one:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thank you that fixed the cgi-bin access problem.

The 404, 403, 401 error pages still do not work, they are served by the httperror.php located at public_html/httperror.php

Great!
You should use "Custom 404 handler" option in vbseocp to define 404 error document since all "not found" requests are now processed by vBSEO.