vbseo not rewriting URLs

I'm moving to a dedicated server. I was having all kinds of problems with 500 Internal Server Error and such.

Now I've played around so much that vbSEO won't even re-write the URLs. It's as if the plugin is disabled. I'm positive the same settings worked before.

I'm trying to think of places where vbseo may be disabled or bypassed. I can confirm that vbseo is active in vbulletin plugins, vbulletin products, and in vbseo's admin panel. I had disabled all hooks in the config.php but I have removed that.

Is there any where else that could stop vbseo from doing the initial rewrite?

After I get this fixed I can move on to actually figuring out the htaccess issue.

Brandon

it won't work without the htaccess file in place.

Interesting. I had it "working" last night without htaccess. By "working" I mean that a link on the homepage would point to a re-written URL. Of course, clicking on the URL was busted without the htaccess. Now, I can't even get the URLs to re-write.

Then again, maybe I'm fried.

Even with .htaccess in place, I still can't get the URLs to rewrite. I guess I'll try it on a local server and see what happens.

For example, right now I have activated vbseo in all places I know how to but this is what ends up:
Home Recording Forum

index.php works with default vbulletin URLs. The forum categories work, but no threads work.

Brandon

ah, so it's not even displaying as /nice/thread/name/ ?

try re-importing the product and ftping vbseo files from scratch

Hello please manually edit config_vbsep.php file and add your forum path to the following setting

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         ''); 


after the edit the setting shall look like

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT',         '/your/forum/path'); 


ah, so it's not even displaying as /nice/thread/name/ ?

try re-importing the product and ftping vbseo files from scratch

I think I've done this 40 times. I've tried it with a fresh download of vbseo 3.1 and I've done it with files I had on the previous server. It did work last night at one point, but somehow I goofed it up.

define('VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT', '/your/forum/path');

Okay, I did this but I don't see any change.

Any other ideas?

Brandon

Make sure that you specified docroot correctly, you can check an example here: Urgent - Site broken
If it still doesn't work, please open a ticket with FTP access for troubleshooting.

Okay, it appears I'm on to something. I deleted the entire stupid forum directory, uploaded vbulletin and installed it. I then installed vbseo and it did actually rewrite the urls once I go the docroot right (I had a slash at the end!).

Then when I imported my previous XML settings for vbseo, everything broke. I wasn't sure how to restore the default settings so I once again deleted everything and am now reuploading. If all goes well, I can just manually tweak the settings to what I had and call it a day.

Of course, this doesn't address the htaccess issue. It only gets me to the point where I can troubleshoot the htaccess.

Brandon

This has happened to several sites lately. I wonder if there is a common ISP between them all that made a change to their server configuration?

Well, I'm not sure. I'm a dedicated server from a company called "Iweb".

Brandon

Update: resolved via support ticket. VBSEO_CUSTOM_DOCROOT set in config_vbseo.php and RewriteBase enabled in .htaccess file.

I just wanted to say that it never ceases to amaze me how incredibe your support is! Thank you very, very much!

It's tough to see your little creation (a forum) that you've worked years on building up to be fairly successful go down and it's awesome that you guys understand how important this is to people. Thank you vbseo!

Brandon