I upgraded to Ver PHPBB 0.22 and installed all the mods again. I just have one problem with my rewrite now as the urls have changed. How can I get it back. I cant get the 404 to redict to the front page either.


BEFORE
driver-630-730-gfxcel-pc133-video-driver-vt643.html

NOW
driver-630-730-gfxcel-pc133-video-driver-t643.html


HTACCESS
# These three lines should only be added if not already done in the .htaccess

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myforum.net [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myforum.net/$1 [L,R=301]



RewriteBase /


ErrorDocument 404 errors/404.html

#########################################################
# forum SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.forum-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END forum PAGES
#####################################################

Much appreciate it if someone knows how to change the htaccess file.

You must have been using an old version of the mod.

So, the best would be to keep your previous url standard with the -vt etc, you'll think about redirecting if you convert to phpBB3; will save a redirecting and will not change much SEO wise.

We only shorten the delimiters to get nicer URLs.

So, you just need to replace :

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      $this->seo_delim = array('cat' => '-c',
         'forum' => '-f',
         'topic' => '-t',

With :

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      $this->seo_delim = array('cat' => '-vc',
         'forum' => '-vf',
         'topic' => '-vt',

in phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_class.php

and the "-c" with "-vc", "-f" with "-vf" and "-t" with "-vt" in the .htaccess (all occurrences).