rewrite issues

Yesterday got VBSEO installed on Consumer Action Group - fighting unfair bank charges

At some point - not necessarily immediately, all the sub-forum links were not available. Only the top level forum page worked. PMs still worked. Links on the nav bar still worked so for instance you could see that there had been some new posts but they all resulted in 404s (page not found).

I have the impression that one or to people did manage to enter a sub forum and make new posts but only one or two and most people reported access probelms.

In other words all links from the top level forum page went to 404 (page not found).

When VBSEO was switched off, it all started working again perfectly and immdiately.

I had added www redirect late last night (and after everything was working), I know that the w3 redirect is good as I have used it countless times before.

Mine

Code:

 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
 
# 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 /
#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*.(xml|txt)(.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

VBSEO default

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.
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 /
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*.(xml|txt)(.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

The most confusing part was that I went to bed circa 0130 and posts continued to be made until 0730 at least 6 hours after the last change.

Hello,

I had added www redirect late last night (and after everything was working), I know that the w3 redirect is good as I have used it countless times before.

Is this an .htaccess from forum/ folder? It looks like it is simply not working (including w3 redirect you mentioned).

I got your PM (cheers) and will pass it on, depending if they want to proceed with VBSEO one of the admins will contact you (bankfodder or Dave) with what they want to do.

OT: I'm sure your sig is growing.