"The page isn't redirecting properly" after fresh install

I would love to, but unfortunately I'm running the software from my local computer which doesn't serve http pages to the outside world.

Do you have a test license for that area? vbseo will only work on the registered domain.

Yes I do have a license for the domain I have installed the software. Only thing is that the domain is accessible from my local computer. If you want to see how it works, look at the video I have posted, especially the part where I show the /etc/hosts part. Furthermore you can see in the middle how I copy-paste a valid key to the field and successfully save it.

The issue can highly be related to your test installation or your server configuration

Yes I'm aware of that. That is why I started the video with showing the apache configuration. It is really sad that after spending a couple of good hours for capturing/editing/posting the video, I'm still none the wiser. It is not like I have done anything special to set up the whole thing. Should I start my next video with typing "sudo apt-get install apache" to the terminal or installation of the operating system?

Honestly I'm getting a little tired of these one-liners such as "open a ticket" or "are you sure you have valid license" that do little to help me with the issue and could have easily found the answer for if he had actually paid attention to what I posted earlier.

I have posted the whole installation process in the video, what else do you want me to do? If you want me to figure this out myself then please just say so, you would save me a great deal of time and I would be happy to look for the support elsewhere.

I'm not mad or anything, but my patience is starting to wear thin seeing the official support is not what I thought it would be and I still keep hitting the same wall over and over again.

However I do want to thank Andrés for actually looking at my video and taking the time to help me with the issue. Thanks to him I'm now a bit closer to getting the vbseo to work.

Officially, we support the licensed url only, not test installs. We could likely fix this in 3 minuets if we had access to it. Without access, it's a tedious process of going back and forth as you are experiencing.

You're stuck a in a loop somewhere. htaccess is pointing to something that then points back to that original source, and after 5 or 6 iterations, the browser throws the error you are seeing.

custom CMS domain should be off/blank
CMS home should be http://forums.letspoker.com/
index.php should include content.php

all of this is outlined in more detail here:
vBSEO 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is here! - vBulletin SEO Forums


i'm getting all of 20 kbs off your video, so it will be another hour before i'm even able to watch it.

Yup, looks like that is what you did wrong. using / for the cms home value is incorrect. it needs to be the full domain in the cms home with trailing slash

I know troubleshooting this myself can take more time than just allowing you to gain access so you could figure this out. That is why I'm putting as much effort into solving this as possible and giving you as much information as I possibly can.

I tried to use different values for the cms home field. I only used a slash, leaving it empty because I had already tried all the standard default values such as content/ and content.html with no success. I have now tried custom value of http://forums.letspoker.com/

The homepage does not show 404, but rest of the links starting with http://forums.letspoker.com/content/ do.

I then tried to use http://forums.letspoker.com/content/ in cms home field, but this gets me the same result as before - 404 when I try to navigate to http://forums.letspoker.com

Edit: I'm not stuck in the loop anymore. Thanks to Andrés a few posts back, I got 1 step closer after removing MultiViews from the apache configuration which I'm pretty sure caused the infinite redirect loop.

Also it matters not on which computer I host the vbulletin installation. Just because you don't have access to my PC, should not make the license invalid.

There was a section in virtualhost file:

Code:

<Directory "/var/www/letspoker.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

which supposedly prevented the .htaccess files from working. I changed that section to:

Code:

<Directory "/var/www/letspoker.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

So far so good.