The Archive needs to have:

AcceptPathInfo On

You can try this setting in .htaccess

Google for "AcceptPathInfo" and ".htaccess" may come back with more details.

Where does that go? anywhere in the .htaccess file?
What does it do?

When i click on the archive link, i get re-directed to my forumhome page. Is this to fix that?

Sorry.. I'm a bit confused..

Thanks
Dave

That didn't work..
anybody else have any suggestions?

That directive should work in .htaccess according to:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html

Have you checked google as I suggested? What have you tried? What problem you have had? what sort of error you have encountered?

Actually have you done a search at the forums of vbulletin.com? regarding archive or perhaps AcceptPathInfo.

Also read my post in this thread might help you to use .htaccess:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=223

Others can only help you if you try for yourself and come back with more details.

actually, i have been looking into this.. I read in a few threads that acceptpathinfo will not work if your httpd.conf file is not allowing it.

I have posted here, and in vbulletin.com asking for some instruction on that file.
I do not see it in ftp, or SSH - although I am not handy with SSH and don't know where or how to look.

This quote is from this thread from another person having same problem as me.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90456


So what i need now is to find out how to edit that httpd.conf file, so it will allow the changes in .htaccess

Like I said before.. I have no idea where that file is, and if I can even get to it. My host does allow SSH access, but i do not know any commands. Dos commands not working :-)

Thanks
DAve

Denzo, the server httpd.conf file is probably in /etc/httpd/conf, and you can probably reach it with ssh (not ftp). You are not able to edit it though, but you can check if it is configed propperly

Concerning this hack and vB3. I`ve managed to add the rewrites to the forums, but not to the threads. I can`t find the clean
<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$thread[threadid]">$thread[title]</a>

I only find those with $highlight and $lastpost.
And pagenav url seems to be linked to a $address variable I can`t find.
I appreciate some help, as allways :)

I found this in the newreply template.. but that's about it..

As far as me finding the httpd.conf file..No good. I am sure it's not onfigured right, becasue it's not working for me.. but so far I am unable to verify that..

Thanks
Dave

has anyone made this hack work for vb3.0.1?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^musicforum([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^musicforum([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&sort=lastpost&order= &pp=20&daysprune=45 [L]
RewriteRule ^musicthread([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^musicthread([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&pp=10 [L]

I`ve got these working (exchange musicforum and musicthread with your topics of course).

And basically just try the find the corresponding things in vb3 from what is described in lierduh`s post :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=223
Try it, and if something specific comes up, I will try to help.

PS. Try one rule at a time.

Hey guys! I've written a detailed tutorial how to mod_rewrite vBulletin 3.

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread9379.html