Hello

I previously installed the able to know rewrite but something has gone wrong--manybe about the stripping of sids.
my urls for forum posts look something like this

.com/phpBB2/post-14215.html#14215

or this
com/phpBB2/about1558-0-asc-45.html

and sometimes will have a long sid code after the .html

I think I want to redo this whole thing and get it right

And Welcome

A link would quite help out here to understand better.

So you previously used the able2know method and changed to on of the phpBB SEO ones ?

Previously your post links looked like this : post-14215.html#14215
and now they look like this : post14215.html#14215 ?

Same for topics the old about1558-0-asc-45.html.

for the post, the robots.txt should disallow both, for the about => topics, if you are using either the simple or the mixed mod rewrite, you can http 301 redirect those, if advanced, you should disallow the old "about" urls in your robots.txt.

When the zero dupe will be out, we won't have these problems any more

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No I just applied the able to know mod. But I might have done something wrong

http://www.asia-expatsforum.com



-but some of the phpbb2 updates required changing the sessions.php file and i could not find the code to change. I would like to start out from scratch.

i wonder if i can just overwrite my sessions .php with the new 2.021 version--and then sdo the mixed rewrite mod

seems like my .htaccess file has been compromised-only shows this now
RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/portal.php


my robots looks like this

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /phpBB2/admin/
Disallow: /phpBB2/images/
Disallow: /phpBB2/includes/
Disallow: /phpBB2/language/
Disallow: /phpBB2/templates/
Disallow: /phpBB2/common.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/groupcp.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/memberlist.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/modcp.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/posting.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/profile.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/privmsg.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/viewonline.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/faq.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/updates-topic
Disallow: /phpBB2/stop-updates-topic
Disallow: /phpBB2/ptopic
Disallow: /phpBB2/ntopic
Disallow: /post-

i just found teh correct .htaccess file on my c drive

should i upload to server it contains the following

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RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/portal.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^forums.* index.php [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?p=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?p=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^view-poll([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&vote=viewresult [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&view=newest viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=newest [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^mark-forum([0-9]*).html* viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topics [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&watch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^stop-updates-topic([0-9]*).html* viewtopic.php?t=$1&unwatch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).html viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^topic-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next [L,NC]

All right so you want to migrate from the able2know mod rewrite to the phpBB SEO mixed one ?

So you'll first need to uninstall the able2know mod and then install the phpBB SEO one.

I recommend you perform local test just to make sure everything will be correctly installed before going online.

Then, this topic is a good thing to read.

Your robots should look like :

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /phpBB2/viewtopic.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/viewforum.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/index.php?
Disallow: /phpBB2/posting.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/groupcp.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/profile.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/search.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/login.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/faq.php
Disallow: /phpBB2/about
Disallow: /phpBB2/member
Disallow: /phpBB2/post
Disallow: /phpBB2/mark
Disallow: /phpBB2/updates-topic.html
Disallow: /phpBB2/stop-updates-topic.html
Disallow: /phpBB2/ptopic
Disallow: /phpBB2/ntopic

Then, these rewriterules will help out a lot

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RewriteRule ^about([0-9]+)-(.*)-([0-9]+)\.html /topic$1-$3.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html /topic$1-$2.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]+)\.html /topic$1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]+)\.html /index.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]+)\.html /index.php [R=301,L]

Just put them in your new .htaccess, before the forum rewriterules.

And for your portal.php file.

Add :

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DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm

before :

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RewriteEngine On

It's better than :

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RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/portal.php

As well, you'll need to take a look at the www prefix issue

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thanks
my problem is time--i dont know when I can do this

In the meantime --should i put back that htaccess file from my previos post?

asiaexpat wrote:In the meantime --should i put back that htaccess file from my previos post?

I am not sure to understand here. .htaccess are only used to allow our new URLs to work.

The able2know rewrite mod needs it's .htaccess for it's URLs to work. Same for the phpBB SEO ones.

So what would you put back if you did not install the phpBB SEO mod rewrite ?

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never mind-- i will start on uninstalling able today

Ok

I did the advanced mod--loks to be working ok


need to look at the www issue and the old links google issue which i dont really understand--whether to remove old links

where should my htacess file be located?

i have directory off of my root in ftp called asia-expatsforum.com and inside there i have my phpbb2 directory
should teh htacces be inside the asia-expatsforum.com folder? or outside of it?

i put
DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm

in htacess file

does not work

it is redirected by index.html file which i have coded to redirect

So,

All your rewriterules should be located in the same .htacceess in the root folder, eg one folder above phpbb in your case.

You should just make sure the path in it are correct and it will work.

Then, you should not redirect using html.

the directoryindex command should work, put it at the beginning of the root .htaccess files.

Then as you made up your mind for the advanced mod rewrite instead,
you won't need the redirection I proposed.

Just the robots.txt.

Besides it's working nicely

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this does not work

DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm

i just put it back and i get a directory index of files on the server-not a redirect

asiaexpat wrote:i just put it back and i get a directory index of files on the server-not a redirect

I though you wanted people hitting example.com to fell on example.com/portal.php, which is the proper way to deal with such type of config.
Please post you .htaccess if you want further help out

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this is what i have now

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/portal.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^asia-expatsforum\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteBase /
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+/([^/]+\.html)$ /phpBB2/index.php [R=301,L]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+-vc([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpBB2/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+-vf([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+-vf([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+-vt([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/.+-vt([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
# POST
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^phpBB2/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /phpBB2/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]
# END PHPBB PAGES


when i remove the

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RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/portal.php

and put in

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DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm

the site does not open--it returns ives me a file directory on the server