URL and skin problem

REVHEAD · #1 02-12-2008, 08:57 AM

Guys Hello

I had some troubles with my server and had to get a backup restored yesterday,I then decided to play around and Purchased a new forum template, everything is running fine after spending all day putting my cutomizations back in.

Here is my problem when I go to www.taskforcealliance.com it takes me to my site but I get the default Vbulletin template, when I go to taskforcealliance.com I get the new forum template, for this reason I think it could be VB SEO related.

It has taken me hours to work out what was happening, I only just realised it was the URL doing it.

Custom skin is set to on, users can not change skin, I have rebuilt the templates in VB maintenace, so why is this changing on me through the URL?

This is very confusing, I really hope this is a VB seo problem haha,because I have tried every other avenue.

briansol · #2 02-12-2008, 09:02 AM

skin choices are cookied.

cookies are different for www VS non-www access.

Fix: open your htaccess in your forums directory, and uncomment the two lines to direct non-www to www (basically, pick one. I DONT use www's)

comments in htaccess start with "#"
use this for www included:

Code:

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

use this for non-www

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com 
RewriteRule (.*) http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

briansol · #3 02-12-2008, 09:02 AM

after that is done, those who are logged into the other that you chose will need to re-login and possibly re-select the new skin.

REVHEAD · #4 02-12-2008, 09:22 AM

ok thanks for the fast response, should I put my domain name in there instead of my domain? because default didnt have my url in it it just had yourdomain..

REVHEAD · #5 02-12-2008, 09:31 AM

Ok

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.com 
RewriteRule (.*) http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

this locks me out of the foums and admin cp ,i get page not found.

So I had to revert back.

I selected Custom user skin when I select a skin in my homepage, it auto bumps me to the forums with the new skin I selected, then I hit homepage and I go back to default? this is annoying the hell out of me haha

REVHEAD · #6 02-12-2008, 09:36 AM

Could I disable rewrites and start with a fresh htaccess file?

REVHEAD · #7 02-12-2008, 09:54 AM

Ok all fixed ,I had to enable the skin on my end for both urls then its fixed, if I dont do that it keeps occuring.

I guess if we run vbSEO you cant have user select theme on for forums unless url re-writes are off? no biggie because I only run the 1 template anyway,its just strange thats all.

briansol · #8 02-12-2008, 11:14 AM

sorry, i had a typo in there.... the first code block should NOT have the #'s on it. need to remove those (to un-comment those lines)

and yes, obviously change 'yourdomain' to your actual board domain name.

REVHEAD · #9 02-12-2008, 12:18 PM

Ok I am in a bit of trouble here now

I get a 404 error no matter what code I try now, maybe I wiped something?, I should of backed up the file before hand doh!

My .htaccess looks like this

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 /
#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=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ 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]

Please help I cant acces my site

I dont use the www either, what can we do to get my site back up ^^

REVHEAD · #10 02-12-2008, 01:49 PM

Ok I dont know what I have changed but now it it working ,but not the way I intend, I punch in taskforcealliance.com and it brings me to www.taskforcealliance.com/forums.

I just want http://taskforcealliance.com
and taskforcealliance to both bring me to my homepage, but at the moment I cant access it till we fix my file, I am tired now must get some sleep , hopefully we can work on this later.

REVHEAD · #11 02-12-2008, 02:14 PM

I think I know what i was doing wrong ,being tired I was putting it in my root, and not my forum root. I can access my site now.

Can you look at my access file and let me know if it looks ok?

Code:


#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.taskforcealliance.com\.com 
#RewriteRule (.*) http://taskforcealliance.com/$1 [R=301,L]

is this what I should have?

Joe Ward · #12 02-12-2008, 02:29 PM

Quote:

I get a 404 error no matter what code I try now

Please open a support ticket:
http://www.vbseo.com/tickets/

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