You are using the vbHome add-on, so there is no reason to ask here for help, since is not the same hack.
Try the vbHome support forums.

Do ANY of the archives work with Apache2?

not this one... I tried to get it working for 3 days...gave up and went back to apache 1.3

:(

TECK, excellent hack. Installed with ease.

Quick question: Just curious, will an automatic redirect from my host, from the root index page (www.mydomain.com/index.html) to (www.mydomain.com/forum) cause problems?

According to your read me, I need to add the link (www.mydomain.com/forum/archive) on the main root index page. Due to the redicrect, if I add this link to either the header/footer of the forum index, will everything be peachy?

I assume I still need to add the robots.txt file to the root index page, or should I also include it in www.mydomain.com/forum due to the auto-redirect?

Just checking, and thanks for work on this!

I have installed, and re-installed and still cannot get it working :(
Apache's ForceType is running on my server.

Apache/1.3.26
PHP/4.3.0

All I get is the following:

http://dr1.com/forums/archive

I also uploaded an archive.txt file and re-named it to archive.php
For some reason it only shows a few of my forums. http://dr1.com/forums/archive.php

I know it must be something stupid, just don't know what?

Dont worry, got it to work :)
Needed the point in front of the htaccess and some of my forums needed to be sub-forums. Thanks for a great hack!!!!!!

I got a question, last night I went to google and did a search for my site and got a bunch of (new) links. Than I went on and searched today and all the links I saw the night before were all gone. WHY? What happened to them all?

Earlier in this thread, TECK mentioned that this exact same scenario is completely normal and not to panic. Apparently if I remember correctly, he said that the preliminary searches show up on google initially, and then when they are processed for a "deep search" and included in their database you may see the listings temporarily removed.

That's the gist of what I read earlier in this thread.

In other words, chill, don't panic. All will be normal soon.

Thanks atomic fireball. Also, I posted an email from Google support in the first thread.
Only if people would take the time to read everythink... ;)
Look for "GOOGLE TECH SUPPORT E-MAIL [LINKS ARE "DROPPED"? NO]"

Hey TECK, no problem. :)

Did anyone get a chance to see my question regarding using a host's auto redirect from the root index page to /forum path? (it's about 3 posts up).

It's beyond the realm of this particular hack's info, but if anyone knows if changes need to be made for search engines when you redirect the root index page, to the /forum page, I'd like to know that info, thanks.

I figure I'll just create a dummy index file (with the archive link) on the root index page (which should be never seen due to the host's auto-redirect), and add robots.txt to /forum path, and the archive link to my main forums page and I should have my bases covered. But just wanted to be sure.

Thanks again TECK for the excellent hack.

Unfortunately not, Teck. Google just screwed us anyway:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...munity+Archive

Only listing 2800 pages now instead of 16,000. This last update sucks big time. PR got caned, links dropped, page one listings disappeared.....:(