Hi there,
First things first: This mod is just AWESOME and it works like a charme

Second: I don't know if this is the write place to ask. I hope so *crossing fingers*

Then: I didn't realize this "error", since I checked google Webmastertools. It told me, that it cannot reach about 600 sites.

about 99% of the unreachable pages are of this form:
-http://www.example.com/sometitle-t4972-s15.html

I double checked and it came out, that the proper form would be:
-http://www.example.com/sometitle-t4972-15.html
(The "s" is stripped in front of the last number)

How can I add a rewrite rule for this case to my htaccess file so google can find this pages again?

Thx and Cheers
sopie

So the -sxx pagination param looks like coming from a url rewriting mod you used to use on your forum before ours.

The good thing is that it will be very easy to redirect properly thanks to the zero duplicate.
All you'll need to do will be to alter this rewirterule (that may look a tiny bit different in your .htaccess) :

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# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]

Just replace it with :

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# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-s?([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]

I just added :

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s?

To take care of both cases at once, -xx and -sxx for the pagination parameter.

The only "hard" part will be that you will have to maintain this tweak among updates to make sure that these links (that could have been posted somewhere) will always work).

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Hi there,
sorry for the late reply: THANK YOU SO MUCH! It works like a charm (again)
I am impressed over and over again how genius this tool is, and how fast, generous and problem solving your answers!!
*bow*
sopi

PS: I have a "how to update" file anyways. Just put your instructiones into it, and will now repeat'em everytime I update

Hi there,
okay, as I have mentioned, the new rule works perfectly.
But now I found that the same thing goes wrong with forum-urls

What works is:
-http://www.example.com/forum-f1-1550.html

What NOT works is:
-http://www.example.com/forum-f1-s1550.html
(the difference is the "s" again)

So I thought I am smart and found this line:
# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM

in the .htaccess file and changed one line afterwards as follows:

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#ORIGINAL: RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-([0-9]+))\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-s?([0-9]+))\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

(I just put the s? in the same position as you did before for the topics)

But this didn't change anything, same things work and don't work for the forums. So I have no clue what could do the trick, and I need help again

Thanks for your patience.
Cheers
sopi

EDIT: And jet another error that occured to me:
-http://www.example.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
will result in a 404 page too (no clue how this come). 2 is my user-id

Oh I just saw why the Error occures which I postet in my last post under EDIT:

It's profile.php instead of memberlist.php ....

Is there a workaround for both of my problems??

Cheers
sopi

*push* ?

For the profile thing, try to add :

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# PHPBB2 PROFILES
RewriteRule ^profile.php$ /memberlist.php [QSA,L,NC]

Brilliant!
It works perfectly.
Thank you so much!

Do you maybe have a clue, what I did wrong with the old forums url?? :

sopi wrote:What works is:
-http://www.example.com/forum-f1-1550.html

What NOT works is:
-http://www.example.com/forum-f1-s1550.html
(the difference is the "s" again)

So I thought I am smart and found this line:
# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM

in the .htaccess file and changed one line afterwards as follows:

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#ORIGINAL WAS:
#RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-([0-9]+))\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
#I REPLACED IT BY:
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-s?([0-9]+))\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

(I just put the "s?" (without quotes) in the same position as you did before for the topics)

But this didn't change anything, same things work and don't work for the forums. So I have no clue what could do the trick

Thank you very much for your help!!
Cheers
sopi

Oh sorry, you need to add the s? in all forum rewriterules (there is two) :

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# FORUM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-s?([0-9]+))\.html$ viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

*doh*

Thank you very very much.
I hope now I got all the strange relicts from bevor-the-update -_-;

*sends some flowers, luck, love and best wishes through the ether*
sopi