[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by kevinh

It does if you have vbSEO installed and enabled, which I do

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At this point the site started working.

I had been trying to get into the vbSEO control panel to disable it - I forgot I could just disable it from Products in Admincp!

However, I have now lost all my SEO friendly URLs, and my site did have a very good SERP ranking so I really need to do something about this.



Do I still need to do this bit if I am considering going to DBSEO?

I'd never heard of DBSEO so I need to investigate this.

Thanks for all your help!

Setting to standard URL's was my advice IF you could not access admincp, so now that vBSEO is disabled you can upload the .htaccess for the site from the vBulletin zip file. Now set it to Mod Rewrite Friendly URL's. After making that change URL's will appear similar to how they did prior with vBSEO but not the same, you can now look up rewrite examples here on vb.org (removing vbseo has been discussed many time but remember do not uninstall if considering dbseo like you said).

Remember though, you won't get the exact same url's with mod rewrite friendly setting, most maybe but if you had a custom setup before imho the only way to return to nearly the same setup would be with dbseo, you'll need to confirm this with them as it's a paid modification and we shant be discussing it in detail here, you can post on their site and ask the specific questions you need to there (simply google "vBulletin Dragonbyte Tech" and their site will come up in the list).