vbseo not seeming to work on root outside of forum

[lafsunlmtd]

Howdy all, I have VBAdvanced CMPS installed on my site. My root is abadss.com and my forums are located at abadss.com/forum. i have turned off the force forum root as home page setting. check out how wierd this is.

Normally at my main root directory (wwww.abadds.com), i have my vbadvanced home page that has my welcome screen and recent threads etc. Now, it shows my forum home, but the links for the forum are the old style and not rewritten.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello Eric,

as I see, your forums URLs at homepage are porintg to the domain root as well instead of forum/ folder, for instance:

http://www.abadss.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3

That's why they're not rewritten.

[lafsunlmtd]

i'm not sure why it's doing that, it should be going to my vbadvanced home page

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Is it working correctly with vBSEO disabled?

[lafsunlmtd]

when i disable VBSEO it does the same thing, but when i remove the htaccess file it goes back to normal. i just removed it now.

[lafsunlmtd]

This is my htaccess

# 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 /forum
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Mm.. but your forum/.htaccess should not affect the homepage. Do you mean that if you remove it and disable vBSEO, the links at ABA DSS Free to Air FTA DSS Forum look like:

http://www.abadss.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3

instead of:

http://www.abadss.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3

[lafsunlmtd]

no, i mean, that when i disable vbseo, nothing changes on the root abadss.com, it still shows the forum home (abadss.com/forum) instead of the to root home page like it is supposed to be (abadss.com/index.php), when i dsable htaccess everything goes back to normal and my home page shows up. i currently have htaccess removed so it is blank and VBSEO enabled and it seems to be working fine. all of my urls are still re-written. i don't know what i am missing with the htaccess. oleg pm me if you want and i can give you access to check it out if you want.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but if you want your domain homepage to show exactly the same content as forums homepage, you should redirect to it using this .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.abadss.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

(otherwise links will point to an incorrect location)