Please help

Last night everything was working fine, then in a state of stupidity I decided to run hotlink protection from my account admin control panel. Couple of errors kicked up and said it could not be used

Never did any more to the forum or checked it

Today, the forum all looks fine until you try and look at anything other than the main page.

All the other add on work fine, photo gallery, classifieds etc. Just the forum is kicking up page not found.

Can anyone help rather than make the problem worse by blindly messing with things with no idea what I'm doing

I have pulled the htaccess down and this is the contents

PHP Code:

# 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.
# 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=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thespainforum.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.thespainforum.com$
RewriteRule ^forum/arcade.php$ http://www.thespainforum.com [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thespainforum.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.thespainforum.com$
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ http://www.thespainforum.com [R=301,L] 


Thanks for any help
Lee G

Just uploaded the htaccess file from the latest version of vbseo and that seems to have cured the problem

But are there any edits I need to do to it

Not a good start to a Sunday morning

Hello,

default vBSEO's .htaccess is fine, it's only suggested to (optionally) setup 301 redirection from non-www domain: 301 Redirecting Domains