Hello,

I thought I made some mistake updating my board from 3.0.4 to 3.0.6 and this great SEO mod from 0.4.8 to 0.6.2 because neither forum URLs nor topic URLs were rewritten correctly in Advanced mode.

It took me a few hours to find the problem: Simply put

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      $this->seo_static['forum']            = 'forum-';

in phpbb_seo/includes/setup_phpbb_seo.php and Advanced mode will not work anymore. (Be sure to put a minus (-) at the end.)

This problem does not occur e.g. with:

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      $this->seo_static['topic']            = 'thema-';
      $this->seo_static['post']            = 'beitrag-';
      $this->seo_static['user']            = 'mitglied-';
      $this->seo_static['group']            = 'gruppe-';

The solution is a simple one: Just delete the minus:

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      $this->seo_static['forum']            = 'forum';

Regards
Wolfgang

mm, should have worked also with "forum-", but, you may just had an .htaccess meant for "forum" (if so, re-generating a new one after the change to "forum-" since it's not default should have fixed the issue).

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Hello dcz,

I tried it again and changed

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      $this->seo_static['forum']            = 'forum';

to

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      $this->seo_static['forum']            = 'forum-';

in setup_phpbb_seo.php. Then I recreated a .htaccess and uploaded it.

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    # FORUM INDEX REWRITERULE WOULD STAND HERE IF USED. "forum" REQUIRES TO BE SET AS FORUM INDEX
    # RewriteRule ^forum\.html$ /index.php [QSA,L,NC]
    # FORUM ALL MODES
    RewriteRule ^(forum-|[a-z0-9_-]*-f)([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /viewforum.php?f=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
    # TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER ALL MODES

But it's not a problem of .htaccess. The URLs are simple not longer "advanced". E.g.

example.com/forum-4.html

instead of

example.com/small-talk-f4.html

and

example.com/thema-4634.html

instead of

example.com/this-is-a-beautiful-url-t4634.html

Then I changed back "forum-" to "forum", re-uploaded the old .htaccess, and voila - it works again.

Kind regards
Wolfgang

Why do you always have to fell on the oddest ones

Anyway thanks for reporting, and sorry for delay, this is an actual bug !

Here is the fix (for 3.0.7-PL1 but should work on 3.0.6, even though I encourage you to uypdate) : http://phpbb-seo.coda-cola.net/projects ... isions/253

And for GYM : http://phpbb-seo.coda-cola.net/projects ... isions/254

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dcz wrote:Why do you always have to fell on the oddest ones

I wish I knew...

Thanks for the fix - it seems to work perfectly now!

Regards
Wolfgang