Thanks for your reply. I've put all this way and runs fine (and Pagespped score goes form 50 to 86!) Now I'm in the way to install TMS to get United-Forum CSS Sprites running or install the changes manually

Good to hear but remember that on the pagespeed tests, the most you can do for the external stuff is try to defer them & try to reduce the script size. Also try to get in touch with whoever is serving third party scripts to you if anyone and ask them about enabling caching on their side.

When I download the attachment containing htaccess examples, and unzip, the folders are empty.

Hi, I just redownloaded the same attachment to test your claim, I can see every one of them fine. There is a .htaccess within the folders. Upload the right one to your forum root.

What kind of files are they? I'm on a MAC. I didnt realize we were uploading a new .htaccess. I thought we were just editing our own with your code.

Whichever works for you, I have them worked out to where many people shouldn't need to edit the file much from it's current state.

And yeah I don't use Mac but they should show up on your OS.

I saw that you are using vbseo in another article, this one should work for you.

When I run the load tests I get a failing score in browser caching so I would like to improve that.

This statement at the top of your .htaccess file confuses me. We run our forums in the web root, no subdirectory. If I turn on mod-rewrite friendly url's in AdminCP my board goes into an endless load loop. We are currently using basic friendly url's

We have a mod in place from a long ago import process that translates foreign references to our old message board location to the current location with translations of post, thread, etc. id's from the old values before import to the current imported values.

I know I should do a bulk edit and replace all those old url's with the current ones, but it is quite a bit of work.

I am hoping there is some way I can get to better browser caching with a bit less work than a bulk edit of 11 years of threads and posts.

First off this is a very old article. What version of Vbulletin are you using?

If your site has been up for a long time I would not change the url structure. It will hurt you in Google badly.

If you want to pm me your url I will take a look and give you some suggestions.

Yes I agree if you have been using regular urls, then you're probably better off with sticking to those kinds of urls.

Delete the rewrite rules above this part:
#Deny attempts to view the Htaccess file.

BTW... did you copy what I posted in my last post? That is for vbseo users. I have an attachment with a suite of different .htaccess setups, even one that doesn't support the mod-rewrite FURL's.

Updated with some new caching & gzipping methods on page one. Feel free to test out the new htaccess.

I'll keep trying it & checking out everyone's response to it for one month and if all goes well I'll replace the original zip file with the updated one which now also protects viewing of the htaccess file itself & several methods of injection.