Something wrong with these .htaccess rewrite rules?
 

When i install this in my .htaccess file the site kicks the "Internal Server Error" page. Even if that is all that is in the file. What's wrong?

Have you not renamed the admincp or modcp folders in ur ftp?

No, no renamed folders.

If you remove just the rewrite rules, or comment them out? What then?

Everything is golden but the DBSEO of course doesn't work - all links become 404s.

I was just seeing if anyone could see anything wrong with the rewrite rules, if not it means something particular to the site I am trying this on, is amiss.

Add the first set of rules:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|dbseocp/|modcp/|cron|mobiquo|forumrunner|api\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ dbseo.php [L,QSA]

Then see iof the ISE keeps up.

No joy.

And what error does it show in the server log

Something should have went into your error logs, or at least the system error logs.

Your webhost should be able to pull more correct logs for you.

Is this the free version or paid version of DBSEO?

Is your forum within a forums folder?

The free, "Lite" version. I have it running without much hitch on two other of my sites.Now that's a interesting question because technically I suppose it is. The domain points to a folder in the file manager but the folder name isn't part of the URL. This might possibly cause a problem with rewrite rules, although for years i have successfully had the forced www rewrite rule in effect with no issues.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions/questions fellas. It's good to be on the receiving end of help from here every now and then!:D

Did your webhost reveal anything ?

I also had our forum in a forums folder and DBSEO would not work for us also, I ended up moving the forum into the root, and everything worked 100% after that.

I didn't check server logs yet but I will, thanks.It seems to work just fine, just the .htaccess rewrite rules kicking the ISE error. Is that what you were having?

Without the rules, the DBSEO works just fine except of course, all internal links generate 404s.

This may help youWhich of these settings do you have set to in the dbseo-cp

[forum_id]
[forum_title]
forum[forum_id]

I had to set all mine to forum_id before it worked

Hmm this was with or without the forum folder?

You put the forum on root, AND used forum ID number? I much prefer the titles than the numbers and have the settings for titles, throughout..

I should mention I am using vB 3.8.7

After I had moved out of the forums folder, before in the forums folder I could not get the add-on to work at all. Afterwards I had to set all the settings to forum_id to stop all the 404's

I'm using 4.2.2

I had a similar issue on some URLs on a 3.8.7, turned out it was the settings in the stopwords for DBSEO which were generating the 404s. Some of the definitions such as the words 'and' 'or' etc.

I have DBSEO installed and working exactly the way I want it to on two other 3.8.7 installations. Only on this latest one am I experiencing the issue with the .htaccess.

Mite be best if you ask over at DBTech, I was just giving me experience with installing this mod....Good luck and keep us posted :D

Yeah it might be but I refuse to join a site just to get support for mods posted here on this site. Post it here, support it here. I made a post in their thread, it will be a week before they see it.

That's the nature of the beast :D when you get something for free ;)

Nah. Most every other developer supports its mods here and in a timely manner.

The issue here is prettly clearly any rewrite rules causing an internal server error. We need to figure out what that internal server error is before we can pass any blame.

Too true. My faint hope was there might be something wrong with the rules I was using.

if i was you i'd drop a pm to ikopylov he's brilliant at .htaccess, he's not free but very very reasonable, he sorted out all my issues when removing vbseo!