Upgraded to vBSEO 3.3.0 Forum index not working properly

[711]

I just upgraded to 3.3.0 and now the

Force Forum Root as Homepage

option no longer works.

myforum.com/forums/ just shows a blank white page, however myforum.com/forums/index.php works normally.

myforum.com/forums/ works if I disable vBSEO.

The only way I can get the site operating properly is to disable this option, which is a shame since the myforum.com/forums/ URL is bookmarked by many users, and has the highest Pagerank.

I made the specified .htaccess edits as posted here:

The .htaccess file inside the package and htaccess.txt files are both updated.

The changes in both these files are :

Find :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Replace

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Any hints on how to get this working again?

[711]

Here is my current .htaccess contents:

# 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 /forums/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.myforum\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.myforum.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

please check your URL formats in vBSEO CP to make sure that there are not *empty* formats defined.

[711]

I had two empty custom fields under URL formats.

Changing those fixed the issue, thanks for the prompt reply!

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You are welcome