hi guys,

i have some problem with google for the advanced rewrite mod for phpbb3,

the rewrite mode work really fine, you can see it in www.scommettendo.net/forum but the problem is that google get 404 error in a lot of urls(478 on about 1000urls),i see it on webmaster tools and i don't' know how to resolv this.

for example, google get 404 for this: -http://www.scommettendo.net/forum/-vp10.html?amp;sid=704f0e8ce47eaeabee01b9834e4c6347

but i don't' understand what is -VP10 and where it came from??

another example is:
-http://www.scommettendo.net/forum/presentazioni-vf3.html?amp;sid=1effafaa847607b3e1b9c1231a08cab1

i think that problem is vf3, because i have i my urls just f3!!!

why google see vf3?????

anyway google have indexed a bit of my urls with vf3 and a bit just with f!!



guys can you help me??

i'm waiting from 1 month but nothing happend

how can i resolv?

p.s. sorry for my english!!!i know is not very good!!

Looks like you where using webmedic good old mod rewrite on phpBB2 before you converted.

That's why we warn that some redirecting will be necessary if your forum previously was using another mod rewrite when you install one of ours (or like it seems to be the case for you when you convert to phpBB3).

It may still be time to implement some redirecting, even though if it's been a month like this, chance are very little that you'll get PageRank back from the old links. Links posted with the old url type would then work too.

Please tell me more about your forum, did you really use another mod rewrite before you eventually converted to phpBB3 ?

hi there, thanks for your help

about my forum i can tell you that is 3 months old, so is really young!

and i converted forum about 1 month ago, before phpbb3 i used phpbb2, and i used as well a rewrite mod!

for the pagerank, i don't mind ,cause i did not have pagerank so....

so, what do you think about?

i have to restall everythink, just the mod, or...i don't' know...???

let me know please

Thanks in advance

hi, i did not receive any answer....someone can help me?

Since your forum isn't old, it's no big deal, but you should still redirect the older url.

To do so, you need to add couple of rewriterules in your phpBB3's .htaccess, please post here both your new and old .htaccess and I'll tell you what to do

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ok dcz, thank you very much!!!

this is my current(new) .htaccess:

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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 /forum/
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD THE WWW PREFIXE REDIRECTION

#####################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES - ADVANCED
#####################################################
# 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 ^forum\.html$ index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# PROFILES SIMPLE
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# USER MESSAGES SIMPLE
RewriteRule ^messages([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?author_id=$1&sr=posts&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# GROUPS SIMPLE
RewriteRule ^group([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ 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$ viewforum.php?start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


for the old ht.access

what do you mean??....where i have to take it?maybe in the phpbbseo/cache folder?


let me know

thanks in advance

By old one, I was meaning the one you previously where using, the one from the mod which was building rewritten urls with -vf, -vt and -vp.

Anyway, since I'm pretty sure about which one is it (webmedics one most likely), you just need to replace all (all occurrences of):

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-f

with

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-v?f

and all :

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-t

with :

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-v?t

in your current .htaccess.

And then add :

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# OLDER STYLE POST
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-vp([0-9]+)\.html$ viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

It should be enough for the zero duplicate to do its job