PROBLEM!!! Forums randomly redirecting to social groups?

[JMEWLS`]

<a href="http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/" target="_blank">http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/</a>

What is wrong? I just upgraded too 3.8.2

[Scotteh]

You tried to access the address http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

Your site down?

[JMEWLS`]

You tried to access the address http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

Your site down?

Try now?

[Scotteh]

You have it as guests only so we can't see the forum index :P

[JMEWLS`]

No, it's not. Check this link.

http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/index.php

It's fine.

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I don't understand what's going on, somethings re-directing to the social groups. I don't understand.

[Scotteh]

I don't get redirected to social groups, i see the forumhome page?

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[JMEWLS`]

Yes, but my link for this doesn't work.

http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/

It brings you to the homepage? The /index.php does work. Which is why i don't understand what's going on? It's very weird? And my users cant do anything on the forum right now because all home links operate through http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/ not http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/index.php ,,,

[Scotteh]

Go on your panel edit the .htaccess file

add

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

should redirect /forum to /forum/index.php

[JMEWLS`]

thankyou very much. last thing I would've thought of.

;)

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I now cannot actually access forum. Eg.

http://www.nbadimensions.net/forums/player-comparison-forum/

But the index is fine :(

[Scotteh]

Is the VbSEO still enabled?

That seems to be the problem as it can't find vbseo.php to get the forum id etc.

Is vbseo.php in the /forums folder?

edit; could you post the contents of your htaccess file? (for /forums)

[JMEWLS`]

Yes it is in the forums folder? I'm going to retry.

[Scotteh]

edit; could you post the contents of your htaccess file? (for /forums)

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try removing the previous code i gave you and add;

DirectoryIndex index.php

[JMEWLS`]

currently looks like this:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

DirectoryIndex index.php

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Added:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Still doesn't work.

:S

[Scotteh]

seems to be working now?

[JMEWLS`]

seems to be working now?

No it's not?

I've been playing around with it, either I can get the index and not the forums and visa versa. :(

[Scotteh]

A minute ago both were working :P

I could display the index and the Announcements page :S

edit: 12;52 its working again :P

[JMEWLS`]

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.nbadimensions\.net
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.nbadimesnions.net/forumss/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

DirectoryIndex index.php

Current code? What's wrong with it?

[Scotteh]

Nothing; both are working fine, try doing a hard refresh if your still getting an error.

i can access both the forum index via /forums and via /forums/index.php and can also access the threads.

[JMEWLS`]

Okay looks like it's fixed now, what I did was re-download vbSEO and installed .htaccess straight from there.

Thanks a billion man. I really appreciate you giving up your time.

[carubmun]

I had a similar problem once, glad to see folks helping you out so quickly.
Thats whats cool about vb.org, someone always on hand to help you out.