Have I set my Forum up wrong with categories?

[lukescotty]

(I'm bumping this up, I've posted it in vbseo.com days ago and theres no replies... their forum is dead... your my only hope people! I'm going mental bout not been able to sort it out :S )

Hiya,

Been looking through a few forums and realised mine isn't functioning the way it should.
I've set it up using categories. best way for me to explain the problem is

Check out these sites who use the same theme, http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/forum.php & http://www.completevb.com/demovb4/forum.php?styleid=19

On those sites, when you click the actually category of any section (black title areas) eg General Chat, it loads the forum independently with those forums inside.

When you click the categories on my website http://www.talknightlife.co.uk eg, general chat, birimingham night life forum... any of them, it doesn't open that section to an independant area. it just pushes the selected forum to the top of the page.

Have I set it up wrong, I'd like it to do what those other forums are doing, and any other forum on the net. I don't think its the skin, because I bought it from the 2nd site, and just thinking, have I set it up wrong.

Any ideas guys??

cheers People, always appreciated

Luke

[zascok]

Something definitely wrong

Lets say "General" is pointing to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php#general

While it suppose to point http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/1-general

Disable the plugins and see if they are causing trouble or it's the skin problem

[lukescotty]

Thx for the reply Zascok.. Righty... its the vbseo Plugin causing this, do I need to go into vbseo and change a few settings? I'm unsure to which ones should be changed. Any ideas? or the ones causing it to function incorrectly

[zascok]

Don't really know I don't use vBSEO but you can ask in vBSEO forum as far as I know they are providing really nice support.

To disable plugins for testing check this thread
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/170881-when-and-how-to-Disable-the-Plugin-Product-System

[lukescotty]

Cheers Zascok, I've done just that, although vbseo looks abit slow in making replies.

Thanks again

[ForceHSS]

post the settings you have for say General will see what settings are wrong for you then you will be able to update all the rest

You do have one at the bottom Talk Nightlife Abroad that you need to delete as it is not being used

[lukescotty]

Settings for : URL Rewrite settings

Define Forum Path Title Bits = f[forum_id]

Forum = f[forum_id]/

Forum Pagination = f[forum_id]/index[forum_page].html

Announcement = f[forum_id]/announcement-[announcement_title].html

Multiple Announcements = f[forum_id]/announcements.html

hmm, is there a way of copying my settings easier than wrtiing them out ?

[ForceHSS]

I meant admincp/Forums & Moderators/Forum Manager then edit forum General and tell me all the options you picked

[lukescotty]

heres a screen shot http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/screenshot-general-settings.jpg

don't forget, that if I disable the VBseo plugin, the problem goes away, won't it be something to do with the settings in vbseo?

[ForceHSS]

also have vbseo dont have this problem. Yes it could be it but we need to rule out other things first upload your htaccess file will have a look at it

--------------- Added 1348417680 at 1348417680 ---------------

as it is a category some things you need to change
Forum is Open = no
Allow BB Code = no
Allow [IMG] Code = no
Allow [VIDEO] Code = no
Allow Smilies = no
Allow Post Icons = no
Allow Thread Ratings in this Forum = no
Require Threads to have a Prefix = no
and all vbseo set to no

[lukescotty]

Category settings changed

i've zipped the htaccess file

[lukescotty]

# 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|api\.php)
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]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^talknightlife\.sheffieldspeedcameras\.co\.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.talknightlife\.sheffieldspeedcameras\.co\.uk $
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.talknightlife\.co\.uk\/" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^talknightlife.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.talknightlife\.co\.uk\/" [R=301,L]

[ForceHSS]

try this one do save the other one just in case

[lukescotty]

hmm, uploaded it, but it hasn't changed it - http://www.talknightlife.co.uk

reckon its the vbseo settings ?

[ForceHSS]

have you tired it without the htaccess file delete it see if that is messing it up

[lukescotty]

still doing the same without the htaccess file... should I upload the original?

[ForceHSS]

yes, and it looks like it is the vbseo doing it. Is the vbseo the paid one or the one from here but i think you could redo that htaccess file as some parts of it look wrong but if you have the paid version of vbseo u would be best asking over on there site

[lukescotty]

yea, its the paid one, I went on their forum and posted a thread, but it might because its Sunday that theres not many replies. (I've uploaded the orignal htaccess)

Thanks for your help though ForcesHSS, I very much appreciate your time & if I get to the bottom of the problem, I'll hit u a message

Thanks again

[ForceHSS]

happy to help I hope you get it fixed. If it is giving you a lot of problems I would disable it but only if it is causing a lot of problems

[lukescotty]

::bump:: sorry for the bunp guys, but vbseo.com arent helping and I think someone on here will know what to do. Cheers

[ForceHSS]

as they support this and you have paid then they need to support it just keep at them

[lukescotty]

ForceHss

I've been messing around with some settings just now, and it I change the
Other Enchantments > Direct Link Category > set it to No

The problem goes away.

"Direct Category Links?

Set this option to "Yes" to enable anchor type links for forum categories.

NOTE: Link to categories will look like "http://yourforumsroot/#category_title""

How important is this setting? should it be set to Yes? is it for seo and serp??

Cheers Luke

[ForceHSS]

If you are talking about some setting in the paid version of vbseo than I cant say yes or no as I dont have it only the free version from here. If you are talking about some default setting in vb then I need the full path to it in the admincp. Saying that if it works without any errors or problems then leave it as it is now, but do keep a close eye on it just in case. But do tell me setting in vbseo or vb are you talking about

[lukescotty]

yeah, its the paid one,

Just had alook for my messages on vbseo.com and it looks like they telling me, the same thing I changed last night :)

so I'm calling this thread ::resolved:: finally

thanks again for the support Force!

heres a picture of the settings just incase u was wondering

[ForceHSS]

glad you got it fixed