Hi there,
recently installed all the phpBB 3 SEO mods.
All went fine, but when installing "phpBB3 SEO Zero Duplicate" it goes wrong.

I can access neither /forum/ neiter /forum/index.php ...
It just gives me the indexpage of my site...

When changing

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$this->seo_opt['zero_dupe'] = array( 'on' => true,

to

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$this->seo_opt['zero_dupe'] = array( 'on' => false,

I can access it via /forum/index.php and not with /forum/.

But of course, the mod is disabled then...

My .htaccess file might be usefull:

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##
# SEO SITE
##

DirectoryIndex /index.php
ErrorDocument 403 /
ErrorDocument 404 /

Options All -Indexes


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) !^/forum/.*

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html   /index.php   [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1   [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1    [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&seoext=$2    [NC,L]
RewriteRule (.*)\.xml(.*) $1.php$2 [nocase] 

##
# SEO FORUM
##
RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?/?$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/the-team\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]



Any idea how to solve?

I think your facing several issues here.

First, it looks like the root rewriterules cold interfere with the forum ones :

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RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&seoext=$2    [NC,L]

For example.

And :

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RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) !^/forum/.*

Is pretty much of no effect where it stands.

So I suggest you use this one instead :

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##
# SEO SITE
##

DirectoryIndex /index.php
ErrorDocument 403 /
ErrorDocument 404 /

Options All -Indexes


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

##
# SEO FORUM
##
RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?/?$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/the-team\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]


RewriteRule ^index\.html   /index.php   [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1   [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1    [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&seoext=$2    [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.xml(.*) $1.php$2 [nocase]


I just changed the order and took the occasion to change the xml one :

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RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.xml(.*) $1.php$2 [nocase]

This way, it won't match other folders.
The forum RegEx are pretty fast since they always first test "forum/", and your .htaccess is pretty small, so it's not a performance issue to have the site ones after.
The other possibility is to check the URI to make sure forum/ is not asked, like you first did, but you must add the line before each concerned rewriterules.

So let's first see how thing goes with this one, I'm pretty sure that the odd redirection occurring with the zero dupe will be fixed, if not all the issues.

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