Difficulties with installing. Tried 6 different .htaccess.. but in combination with my blog it doesn;t work very well. Is there also a preinstalled SEO MOD ready phpBB3 version avaible?

Thanks in advance,
Rwin2007

And welcome

You can start playing with the phpBB SEO premod. You'll be able to chose between the three phpBB SEO mod rewrite directly in the ACP.

But, this will still mess things up a bit with your blog.

Could you post here your blog's .htaccess and tell me where is it installed (as well as phpBB) ?
in case you r forum is installed in a sub folder, you can hit the more option option (sic) in the .htaccess ACP, in order to locate it in the phpBB folder.

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Thanks man for your help. For start i , version phpBB3 + Mixed-phpBB3-SEO-mod-Rewrite_V_0.4.0RC1.

Placed my forum in de direcotry:

-www.example.com/blog/forum

I placed the generated .htaccess (played with the settings sub or not) in my root ; -www.example.com

Turn MOD rewrite URL on and nothing happens.

here is my file

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# 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 ^forum\.html$ /blog/forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^announces/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*/?topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ /blog/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ /blog/forum/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES

# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM
# THESE FOUR LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewforum.php?start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################

This .htaccess is intended to be used at the domain's root level, eg, on level above the blog/forum/ folder.
And apparently, you activated the virtual root option, which is a good idea with two folder sub level, but make it impossible to use the .htaccess elsewhere.

So you must put this on at the domain's root level. And this mean we'll have to merge it with the blog's one, if there.

So post you blog's .htaccess, and confirm that your forum is installed in -www.example.com/blog/forum/

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Yesterday evening i replaced my blog's .htaccess with the one of phpBB :-S. So i asked my provider to place it back since i didnt make backup after blog SEO upgrade. I assume getting this today or else i install the mod rewrite for my blog other time.

But will try the virtual server option... but blog or no blog... if i place this .htaccess file in de root dir it still doesn't work!

first check de option virtual server ON

still not working

still URLS as -http://www.example.com/blog/forum/viewforum.php?f=14

with this .htaccess file:




# 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 ^forum\.html$ /blog/forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /blog/forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^announces/topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*/?topic([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ /blog/forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ /blog/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ /blog/forum/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES

# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM
# THESE FOUR LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /blog/forum/viewforum.php?start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################



Hope you have advise for me or preinstalled PhpBB3 version, i can tweak...

i also received backup files from provider so if standalone is fixed... that i can integrated it....

if you would like i could PM you login details on my admin so maybe you could see for yourself if I missed a stage??

Have you activated the URL rewriting in ACP ?

yep I did ... offcourse

And no links are being rewritten, on all pages ?

Are you sure the modded phpBB files are online ?

Why not trying the premod ?

what is the premod??? I don't understand the difference??

yeahh... phpBB is working fine... no problems at all only url's are bad...it is strange i don't receive any errors after adjusting all codes and settings... working fine here...

Great it is all working fine now... including my blog! Thank you for your help... although there wasn't much to help

You're welcome