vBSEO Conflict?

I have recently been noticed that in my error logs the following message has been reoccuring, since upgrading a modification, entitled Article Bot to 2.5.8 which imports news from feeds into threads.

Here is a sample of the errors i have been attaining:

Warning: main(webmaster-news/vbulletin-two-alternative-local-search.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/vbseo.php on line 760

Warning: main(webmaster-news/vbulletin-two-alternative-local-search.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/vbseo.php on line 760

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'webmaster-news/vbulletin-two-alternative-local-search.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/vbseo.php on line 760

http://www.staff-lounge.com/webmaste....html#post9698
The above thread is what was trying to be accessed.

Michael,

it looks like a conflicting Custom Rewrite Rule. Please check if one of them is matchig the URL.

Here are my complete CRRs, i cant see any conflicts:

We don't want people stealing these do we now!

Michael,

this CRR matches the url:

'search\.php\?do=searchresults&string=(\w+)&catid= 0&quicksearch=1' => 'search-$1'

During the reverse processing the pattern "search-(\w+)" is matching the "webmaster-news/vbulletin-two-alternative-local-search-services-t1092.html" URL.
You should add either leading "^" or trailing "$" the to CRR like:

'^search\.php\?do=searchresults&string=(\w+)&catid = 0&quicksearch=1' => 'search-$1'

Does it make sense?

Thanks for that, although i still dont understand how a CRR for the search.php file can effect /webmaster-news/ folders. Perhaps you could provide me with some more additional information to this reverse processing?

Michael,

the custom rewrite rules feature requires both "forward" and "reverse" processing.

The first task (forward) is to translate source URLs to SEO links. vBSEO is using CRR that you define for this.

The second task (reverse) it to get original URL from rewritten one when it is clicked.

So, when URL is matching either left or right part of CRR, it is affected by custom rewrites module.