[Forum] Mod Rewrite URL Issue

[mrsjanuary]

I know mod rewrite url's have been discussed a lot on this forum, but I'm unable to find a solution to my problem.

The forum is installed in a subdirectory of a domain name (www.domain.com/subfolder), and I'm trying to use the Mod Rewrite URL's. I have made sure this is enabled in options, and also followed instructions I found on this forum for .htaccess, and it still doesn't work. It is adding an additional "/forums" to all URL's, which is resulting in 404 errors when you click on a link.

I'm using the .htaccess that is in the do_not_upload folder. I have also tried a few other variations of the .htaccess rewrite rules that I have found posted in this forum, and those resulted in a server error.

RewriteEngine on


# This file is only needed if you have set the Forum Component URL in your admincp and you are 
# using the mod_rewrite option for friendly urls.  If this is the case, copy this file
# to your forum component stub directory.


# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your forum component directory.
# RewriteBase /forum-stub-directory/


# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d


RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]


# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]

Any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you

[mrsjanuary]

bump! Anyone please?

[Lynne]

What version of vb are you using? Those aren't the rules I have in the .htaccess file that came with my 4.1.8 download.

[mrsjanuary]

I am using 4.1.8

[mrsjanuary]

Oops double post.

[Lynne]

You don't have any lines like these in your default .htaccess that you downloaded?

# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

(or more - I have a few more lines than you do in yours.)

[mrsjanuary]

No, none of those lines are in the default .htaccess file I have. Are these rewrite rules required in order for the URL rewrite to work?

You don't have any lines like these in your default .htaccess that you downloaded?

# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

(or more - I have a few more lines than you do in yours.)

[Trevor Hannant]

You're using the wrong .htaccess file - use the one that's in the main apache2 folder, not the forum folder as this is only for those using the forum in a sub-directory of the main vBulletin installation (for vB Suite).

[mrsjanuary]

Thanks Trevor, I changed the .htaccess to the one that you said to use in the apache2 folder. However, it's still having the issue where it's adding an extra "/forums" into the URL's, which is resulting in 404 errors. Any idea how to fix this?

You're using the wrong .htaccess file - use the one that's in the main apache2 folder, not the forum folder as this is only for those using the forum in a sub-directory of the main vBulletin installation (for vB Suite).

[mrsjanuary]

bump!

[Lynne]

What is the url to your site? If you then click on forumdisplay, it will then add /forums/xxxx to the end of that url.

[mrsjanuary]

http://www.mrsjanuary.com/forum

[mrsjanuary]

I'm not sure what you mean..."forumdisplay" only shows in the URL when you use "Advanced Friendly URL's"...

[Lynne]

Since you already have /forum in the url, your .htaccess says to then add /forums after that if you go to a forumdisplay.php page.

[mrsjanuary]

Since you already have /forum in the url, your .htaccess says to then add /forums after that if you go to a forumdisplay.php page.

Ohh ok I understand. So what should I change the .htaccess to so that it doesn't tell it to add "/forums" to the URLs? Do I just need to remove that line of code that refers to "/forums", or is there something else I need to do?