vBSEO installation is doomed to failure in case of html-endings?

Hi vBSEO-Team and users,

I want to install vBSEO on my forum, which uses *.html endings instead of *.php endings. Which settings do I have to change to run the installation on my board? Unfortunately the vBSEO script is encoded, so that I have no chance to change the endings used in the vBSEO scripts myself.

Thanks for any hint!

(BTW: I do not want to change my forum-endings to .php just because of vBSEO!)

Greetings,
Chriss

Why not rename them to .php, and then have vBSEO rewrite them back to .html?

Originally Posted by Wuushu

Why not rename them to .php, and then have vBSEO rewrite them back to .html?

Because this would be very time-consuming. It is easy to change the endings in a script like the vBSEO-script via find/replace, but it costs much time to change all vb-Files incl. all templates. In my case it would be error-prone, because I includes many extern files (outside of the forum), which should not be rewrited by vBSEO. In this cases I cannot use find/replace and must differenciate between forum-files and my own extern files.

I hope the vBSEO-Team will have an other solution for me!

Greetings,
Chriss

Hello Chriss,

we have implemented support for html package of vBulletin in vBSEO3.0.0RC4. You should manually modify your config_vbseo.php file:
FIND:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_VB_EXT',             'php'); 


REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_VB_EXT',             'html'); 


Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello Chriss,

we have implemented support for html package of vBulletin in vBSEO3.0.0RC4. You should manually modify your config_vbseo.php file:

Thanks a lot! That is, what I wanted to hear! I will try it!

I am lucky: new version with this possibility and nice offer on the occasion of the Labor Day Special.

Greetings from Germany,
Chriss

Now, I could install vBSEO! In addition to the modifications of the File "config_vbseo.php" I had to modify the xml-File "crawlability_vbseo.xml", in which I replaced the php-Extensions with html-extensions.

Now, I will configure vBSEO and hope it will work!

Greetings,
Chriss

Don't halloo till you're out of the wood!

No, it doesn't work. The file modcp/vbseo_moderate.php needs *.php-Files to include:

Warnung: main(...../includes/functions_databuild.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /modcp/vbseo_moderate.php (Zeile 6)

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '...../includes/functions_databuild.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in ...../modcp/vbseo_moderate.php on line 6

What a bummer! When can I reckon a solution? In the candidate release? When will the candidate release be published?

Greetings,
Chriss

Hello Chriss,

confirming the issue with moderation area (unfortunately, this new feature has not been fully tested yet)
/* NOTE: This issue has been resolved. The fix will be distributed with the next vBSEO build. */

Is everything else working correctly so far?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Is everything else working correctly so far?

I installed vBSEO without errors and didn't change anything, except the mentioned changes. When I open my forum, I get no errors, but no url is rewritten and the vBSEO Copright isn't shown, although I placed it in the footer template. How do I know, if the system works? Do I have to turn the system on? If yes, where?

How can I configure the system, without the features in the admicp?

Sorry, for all my questions, but after my impulse buying I've still not read a vBSEO guide yet.

Greetings,
Chriss

Make sure that you installed vBSEO xml product file in vB admincp.
All vBSEO options are configured at http://yourforumsroot/vbseocp.php

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Make sure that you installed vBSEO xml product file in vBulletin admincp.
All vBSEO options are configured at http://yourforumsroot/vbseocp.php

I installed the xml-File as product.

When I tried to access vbseocp.php, I got a error404. Therefore I deleted the .htaccess file. After that I could access vbseocp.php and could confgure vBSEO. After configuring I loaded up .htaccess again. But nothing happens!

Now, when I open my forum with "domain.com/testvb/" I get an error404. But "domain.com/testvb/index.html" works... No URLs are rewritten.

What could be the problem?

I tried to change .htaccess:
I replaced

PHP Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L] 


with

PHP Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*\.html)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L] 


After this change, I get always a 404error and cannot open any forumsite anymore.

Greetings,
Chriss

Hello Chriss,

please open a support ticket with ftp/admincp acces for troubleshooting.