VBulletin 5 connect 19 beta URL issue

[EasyLaw]

Hi

We are currently using VB5 beta 19
Current forums url looks like this forum/forum/.... , so how can we change it to forum/....


I have installed the forum in public_html/forum

using vb5 connect , so could not find any option regarding mod_rewrite friendly.
My httaccess content looks like this :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

#needed because admincp is an actual directory.
RewriteRule ^(admincp/)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

[Wayne Luke]

Do you have your vBulletin installed in a "forum" directory? If so that is why the URL says /forum/forum/. There is no way to correct this.

[EasyLaw]

Thanks for a quick response

but we can't put the forum files in public_html directory , because there are already some files of the main website , which cann't be replaced with the forum files. Then in this case , what would be the suggestions ?

[Wayne Luke]

I would suggest to leave it as it is then. It is not going to hurt anything.

[EasyLaw]

I want to make the URL seo friendly , so i dont think so , its a good practice to use two same words again in the URL (www.sitename/forum/forum/your_topic)