Please help me decide . . . !

DSGroup · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

Hello,

I just found out about this great premod. Now here's the scenario :

I already have a phpbb 3.0.1 forum installed. Here are the details :
Mods Installed :
1. Hide mod (but i don't want this mod anymore
2. Shoutbox mod (don't want this either)
I guess 1 or 2 mods more were installed, but i don't want any mod whatsoever from now.

Total posts : 8280
Total topics : 3233
Total members : 1929
Location of original forum :www.Desi-Instincts.com/forum

So, i want your opinion(s) so as to what should i do :

(a) Should i install a new copy of the seo premod & then reinstate the full backup of my current forum to the seo'd forum ?
(b) Or, should i (can I ?) convert my current forum to the seo'd version ?

BTW, i have already downloaded a copy of the premod & stashed the files on the server. I would prefer something like the option (a). I had seen the convert option in the premod installation menu, but it said that no phpbb3 installation detected. Then i transferred the contrib & root folders to the "forum" folder and still it said that no installation detected.

Please help me and explain me stepwise what i should do & what wrong did I do ?

I would be greatly thankful & I appreciate your efforts !

dcz · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me decide . . . !

If all your forums are private, there is no real need to SEO, of course with phpBB3 you could only allow bots to crawl private forums, not guests, but there could be issues doing this.

As far as the premod settings I cannot tell, to go from phpBB3 to our SEO premod please read this thread : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-premod/discussions-vt1962.html

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DSGroup · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

Don't want to be a pain in the neck, but that didnt help me at all. I dont think you understood what i meant. Anyway, i just installed the phpbb SEO forum. I tried a lot but its returning 404 whenever i try to do reach to some topic or something !

dcz · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Please help me decide . . . !

404 are related to bad .htaccess implementation, if of course mo_rewrite is available.

So did you proceed as suggested in the install with the .htaccess implementation ?

Where is your forum installed and where did you put it ?

Post it here if you have further problems.

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DSGroup · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

OK, i found out what the problem was. Yes, it was related to the .htaccess thing. Actually everything was ok, even mod_rewrite was supported, but the thing was that .htaccess use was deactivated on the server !!

I just turned it on and now everything is working. The test forum that was created after install is accessible. Everything is else is also smooth.

But now i have a different problem. Actually as i have already told you that i have a working and setup forum online. I wanted to install a fresh copy of the phpbb-seo premodded version and then basically take a backup of the current forum and restore it in the newly setup one.

When i had setup the new forum, obviously i had setup a new database etc. So, today i just took a backup of current forum and then went to the store folder and moved the backup file to the newly setup forum subfolder.

Then i went on to restoring the backup . . . at first it would return an error that there was a timeout of the maximum execution time of 40 seconds in acp_database.php at /includes/acp/.

Then i edited the acp_database, and where the statement was set_time_limit(1200);
i edited it to :
set_time_limit(0);

then when i tried to restore again i found that the index.php file was missing in the /root folder which is where the new forum was installed !!!

dcz

Please read this thread : phpBB3 => premod

It's of course better to test on a local /test server and to do backups, but the principle is in your case easy :

replace all files in forum/ with the premod files (the one in the root/ dir of the package) expect config.php
run the mod rewrite installer as explained in the thread I mentioned above as well as GYM's one if you want to use it
run the no dupe install query :

Code:

ALTER TABLE `phpbb_topics` ADD INDEX ( `topic_last_post_id` );
generate an .htaccess and put it in the right place (where the red message tells it to in the .htaccess generator)

These are the very basic steps to follow, it's of course a bit different with modded forums or with custom styles, as told in the above mentioned thread.
I again encourage you to first test the procedure on a local / test server to make sure you'll do everything fine directly when going online.
As well, since your forum existed prior to the URL rewriting implementation, you should wait at least two month before you implement the suggested robots.txt and of course, activate the zero duplicate and set post redirection to at least guest.

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