Here's The Real Reason vBSEO Abandoned Ship

[brihan]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Yes, immediately.

*Please note: It would be best to prepare yourself and your forum ahead of time, by that I mean;

You need to do one of the following:

*** Backup database and files before doing this, you make a mistake only so many ways to reverse things w/o a backup ***

1) Uninstall VBSEO / Remove all files. THEN setup vBulletin to use mod rewrite friendly URL's by including the .htaccess file from the 4.2.2.zip file. If setup correctly your urls are now mod rewrite friendly and appear close if not similar to how they did before, not identical but best they can be since vbseo was removed.

OR

2) Uninstall VBSEO (read DB Tech install instructions/documentation as you may need to disable vbseo first since you want to import data into DBSEO then uninstall vbseo after importing into dbseo etc etc) and install DBSEO by DBTech (Google it) as its the new alternative to VBSEO.

Most of us experienced in these matters go with option one, the rest option two i.e. purchase dbseo then they import and feel safe that they now have something close to what was there prior.

Thank you for the quick reply TLS.

Another question if I may. Currently I am running VB 4.2.0. Should I upgrade before or after removing VBseo?

Thank you again. I really appreciate the help.