VBSEO Rewrites not being applied

We have just moved servers which has meant getting our Vbulletin forum back up. When activating vbseo, the links on the main forum have been rewritten as per our settings, but when you click on any links we are getting 404 pages.

It is also NOT taking into account our custom 404 page which we have setup within the vbseo config panel.

Is this a permission issue, and if so is it the htaccess file that needs it's permissions changed ( Currently 755 ) or the vb seo config file?

Please advise.

Dave

Hi Dave,

This sounds like a problem with the .htaccess file more than anything else, can you confirm that you definitely copied over the correct .htaccess file and possibly try setting the RewriteBase as some server setup's require this.

If these still don't work paste your .htaccess here or in a ticket so we can help.

Ceri

When you state setting the rewrirebase, how do we go about doing this. The htaccess file is posted below. Thanks!

php_flag register_globals on
# 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 /
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]
Header append X-FRAME-OPTIONS "DENY"
deny from 65.55.*
#FQ: Thu Feb 11 09:43:33 EST 2010
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} freetraffic4friends\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L,F]

Do you mean removing the # from in front of #RewriteBase / forums ?

If so we are doing this now.

Still no luck. The permissions of the htaccess file are set to 755. Is this correct?