Problem with installation of vbSEO

So, I ran the test.php prior to purchasing a vbSEO license to realize that I can use the Ioncube succesfully Test File. I go to to run the vbseocp.php and now I get this:

Site error: the file /home/.orange/tearstone/club4g.org/board/vbseocp.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator.

What's up?

I apologize, I think this might be my issue: IONCUBE and PHP5.1 or greater

I run my site on Dreamhost, so I changed my version of PHP to 4.4.2 to hopefully remedy the problem.

Interesting, now I am getting this issue: The encoded file /home/.orange/tearstone/club4g.org/board/vbseocp.php is corrupt.

Hi Russ,

That's usually caused by failing to upload all of the files in binary mode.

Force your FTP client to use Binary mode, then re-upload the vBSEO files.

Good call ACE!

In the instructions it even says "
A. Upload ALL the files in the 'upload' folder to your forum root folder in BINARY mode."

Now that it is installed, if the plug-in is active, I can open up the board no problems. When I click on an individual forum I get this which results in a 404 error:

http://club4g.org/e/tearstone/club4g...eneral-forums/

Not Found

The requested URL /e/tearstone/club4g.org/board/general-forums/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.



Of course this is a rewrite of the original URL: General Forums - Club4G Eclipse Forums

Russ,

Have you uploaded an .htaccess file?

Yessir, I uploaded the .htaccess file. Since I also could not see it, I tried to upload htaccess.txt then renaming it to .htaccess with the same results. I also took out the # sign in the rewrite base line as well. No dice :(

What do you have defined as vBulletin URL in your vBulletin Options?

(I get a 404 at the 'original' URL you posted - General Forums - Club4G Eclipse Forums)

Club4G - 2006+ Eclipse Performance and Tuning Forums <-- that is the defined URL for the root of the forum.

I have been tinkering around with the .htaccess file some more, and I still keep getting 404 errors even with the plug-in deactivated. I keep restoring one without the rewrite to get the forum back to normal.

Hmm..

Does "club4g.org/e/tearstone/" mean anything to you?

It seems as if this is being added when vBSEO is turned on.

Oh. Of course. When you added the htaccess, did you try RewriteBase /board, or leave as / ?

/e/ -- I have no clue where that is coming from
/tearstone/ -- That is the home directory of my dreamhost webhosting in which all my website reside beneath it named based on the domain name so in FTP or Unix I see /tearstone/club4g.org/board/vbseocp.php as an example.

But the document root for club4g.org is /home/tearstone/club4g.org/

I edited the .htaccess in such a way that it seems to be working fine now with the rewrite without the vbSEO plug-in enabled.

But as soon as I enable it to start rewriting the URLs, I get this error again:

Not Found

The requested URL /e/tearstone/club4g.org/board/general-4g-eclipse/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

To answer your above question, yes I did modify the rewrite path, 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 /board

RewriteCond &#37;{HTTP_HOST} !^club4g\.org
RewriteRule (.*) http://club4g.org/board/$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]

Hello,

please try to manually define VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT in config_vbseo.php file

PHP Code:

define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         '/path/to/your/domainroot'); 


Oleg, I tried that and it had no effect :(

Config change:

PHP Code:

// ****** OPTIONS IN BETA STAGE ******
    // The following options are in beta stage.
    define('VBSEO_CHECK_WWWDOMAIN',        0);
    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         '/home/tearstone/club4g.org'); 


Error:

Not Found

The requested URL /e/tearstone/club4g.org/board/general-4g-eclipse/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.