[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

First of all, the "three simple rewrite rule examples" in the vBSEO post (discussed earlier) do not rewrite (undo) all the VBSEO URLs in various search engine indexes.

Whoever above said "you only need these simple rules and nothing else" .. that poster is wrong.

For example, if you were using vBSEO to rewrite your forums titles, and your forum was (before vBSEO):

/showforum?f=111

and after vBSEO it was:

/this-is-my-forum-above/

... and you have many forums, there is no way to have a single mod_rewrite rule to for the forums.

Each forum will need a rewrite rule similar to this:

RewriteRule  ^this-is-my-forum-above/$  /showforum?f=111 [R=301,L]

So, if you had 100 forums using this scheme, you will need 100 rewrite rules under this same scheme.

Please, do not be "fooled" by those who think a few simple mod_rewrite rules will work for all vBSEO configurations in all forums!

.. if you were running vBSEO and just used a few simple rules, simply go look at your access log file for all the 404 errors (simple example below), and you will quickly understand what I am talking about.

tail -f access.log | grep " 404 "

If you were using a vBSEO schema with the forum number in the URL, then you can do it with one rule, for example:

/this-is-my-forum-above-f111/

You can get by with a rule such as:

RewriteRule  ^this-is-my-forum-above-f([0-9]+)/$  /showforum?f=$1 [R=301,L]

vBSEO had many different configurations, and many people did not use the forum id in the vBSEO URL.

If there is a lesson to be learned here (and there are many), is to make sure you use the forum ID (or thread ID, etc) in our "friendly URLs" because if you don't have unique ids in your "friendly URLs' then you will have trouble to undo them if something like this happens again (you need to revert back).

Cheers.

I was using forum id numbers just like Vbseo used to have.

Now my issue is the characters that appear after the url's such as my forum--

forum.php#axzz2jy7qTEM3

I am using Vb mod rewrite--standard canonical - using ignore for unicode now but have tried various settings..

Here is my htaccess.. Is there any way to fix this or does it even matter? I have been using Vbseo for years up until recently. I do remember dealing with this issue years ago but cannot remember details.

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule f[\d]+/.+-([\d]+)/index([\d]+).html showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule f[\d]+/.+-([\d]+)/ showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule f([\d]+)/index([\d]+).html forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule f([\d]+)/ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]

# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

## Expires
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
        ExpiresActive On
        ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
        ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"
        ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 3456000 seconds"
        ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 3456000 seconds"
</ifModule>

## Compression
<ifmodule mod_headers.c>
        <ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
                AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml application/x-javascript
                BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
                BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
                BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        </ifmodule>
</ifmodule>

## Rewrites
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine on
        Options +FollowSymlinks

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
        RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

        # Media Library
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/tags$ media.php?do=tags_edit&mid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/edit$ media.php?do=details_edit&mid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/report$ media.php?do=report&mid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/c(\d+)$ media.php?do=comment_edit&cmt=$2 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/p(\d+).*$ media.php?do=details&mid=$1&pid=$2 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).* media.php?do=details&mid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/p(\d+).*/edit$ media.php?do=playlist_edit&pid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/p(\d+).* media.php?do=playlist&pid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/c(\d+).* media.php?do=category&cid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/u(\d+).* media.php?do=user&uid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/tag/(.*) media.php?do=tag&tid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/results/(.*) media.php?do=results&query=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/advresults/(.*) media.php?do=advresults&query=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/letter/(.*) media.php?do=letter&query=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/browse.* media.php?do=browse [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/search.* media.php?do=search [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/random.* media.php?do=random [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/submit.* media.php?do=submit [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/tagcloud.* media.php?do=tagcloud [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/playlists.* media.php?do=playlists [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/pcreate.* media.php?do=playlists_create [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/pmine.* media.php?do=playlists_mine [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/favorites.* media.php?do=favorites [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/subscriptions.* media.php?do=subscriptions [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/admin/edit/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_edit&sid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/admin/delete/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_delete&sid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/admin/export/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_export&sid=$1 [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^media/admin/(\w+).* media.php?do=admin_$1 [QSA]

        # Media Library from Video Directory
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} do=viewdetails&videoid=(\d+)
        RewriteRule ^video\.php$ media.php?do=details&mid=%1
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)
        RewriteRule ^video\.php$ media.php?do=category&cid=%1
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} viewuser&userid=(\d+)
        RewriteRule ^video\.php$ media.php?do=user&uid=%1
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} viewtag&tag=(.*)
        RewriteRule ^video\.php$ media.php?do=tag&tid=%1
        ReWriteRule ^video\.php$ media.php

        # Forum
        RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
        ReWriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
        RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

        # MVC
        RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]
</ifmodule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    <FilesMatch "\.(bmp|css|flv|gif|ico|jpg|jpeg|js|pdf|png|svg|swf|tif|tiff)$">
        Header set Last-Modified "Mon, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT"
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>