Trouble with preMod phpbb SEO

ambistia · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 5

I've spent over 12 hours trying to figure this out and I'm now completely confused.

I installed correctly. I followed the instructions through the install and all worked well.

Next I made some small changes to the phpBB SEO area, again following your directions through the process.

I tested mod rewrite to find out if it was working correctly by using your little found.html > find.html idea. Worked perfect.

I had the whole thing running GREAT, with mod rewrites occurring and the whole forum was one big happy family.

THEN....

Then I went into the dreaded "forum url management" for the first time and decided I would shorten my url's a little. I changed only 1, just 1 of these urls in the forum url management and the whole thing went to hell.

Now, phpBB loads on the forum board index, but, when I click to any other url I get 404.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

dcz · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: Re: Trouble with preMod phpbb SEO

It's an .htaccess issue, could you tell us a bit more about your settings (where is phpBB installed, and the mod rewrite options) and post your .htaccess ?

ambistia · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 5

# Lines That should already be in your .htacess
<Files "config.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>
<Files "common.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

# You may need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
# REMEBER YOU ONLY NEED TO STARD MOD REWRITE ONCE
RewriteEngine On
# REWRITE BASE
RewriteBase /
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD THE WWW PREFIXE REDIRECTION

#####################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES - MIXED
#####################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz www.phpbb-seo.com
# STARTED : 01/2006
#################################
# FORUMS PAGES
###############
# FORUM INDEX REWRITERULE WOULD STAND HERE IF USED. "forum" REQUIRES TO BE SET AS FORUM INDEX
# RewriteRule ^talk/forum\.html$ /talk/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^talk/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /talk/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^talk/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^talk/announces/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^talk/([a-z0-9_-]*)/?topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# PROFILES THROUGH USERNAME
RewriteRule ^talk/member/([^/]+)/?$ /talk/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# USER MESSAGES THROUGH USERNAME
RewriteRule ^talk/member/([^/]+)/(topics|posts)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /talk/search.php?author=$1&sr=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GROUPS ADVANCED
RewriteRule ^talk/[a-z0-9_-]*-g([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^talk/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /talk/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# ACTIVE TOPICS
RewriteRule ^talk/active-topics(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/search.php?search_id=active_topics&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]
# UNANSWERED TOPICS
RewriteRule ^talk/unanswered(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/search.php?search_id=unanswered&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]
# NEW POSTS
RewriteRule ^talk/newposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /talk/search.php?search_id=newposts&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^talk/the-team\.html$ /talk/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES

# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM
# THESE THREE LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^talk/([a-z0-9_-]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /talk/viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################

dcz · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Trouble with preMod phpbb SEO

This .htaccess implies that phpBB is installed in example.com/talk/ and should be implemented in example.com/. You should as well make sure that there is no .htaccess in the talk/ dir.

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ambistia · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 5

I've done this and triple checked, it's correct as you've stated.

Is there any other things I can check or try to fix? When I set Active URL Rewriting in the phpBB SEO Class setting to "no" - it works perfect. Otherwise 404 on all pages except forum index.

dcz · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Trouble with preMod phpbb SEO

mm, how does the test rewriterule you used looks like ?

Is this .htaccess reproducing the same slashes and paths ?

It could be something like use "talk" instead of "/talk" and / or "^/" istead of "^" in the rewriterules.

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ambistia · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 5

I've been trying changing things around without success. However I should point out one thing as you noted above:

This line of code works perfect:
RewriteRule ^find\.html$ talk/found.html [L]

ambistia · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 5

still need help, see above

thanks guys Smile

dcz · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: keep this on topic please