Dropping visitors

[harleyforum.se]

Story:

1. I had the free version, 2.2.4 for a month or so. Worked great, got many many more visitors to the site!
Running (i.e. 'address?language=en') links on this version.

Now (problem):

2. Bought and installed the license version 4.4.2. Changed the settings in the forum according to your readme file.
A. Changed from (i.e. 'address?language=en') to (i.e. '/en/address')
B. placed your .htaccess file in the root as is. No changes to the file at all.
C. Changed conical webaddresses to STRICT and also change to Advanced type of url:s

Suddenly visits dropped to amost half within a week. Got error messages like, "TO_MANY_REDIRECTS" when creating posts on my forum and clinking on links to my forum from facebook etc. Also Google admin tools reported many broken links etc, all of them linked to languagelinks. an, fr sv etc.

Number 2A is still the the same setting (/en/) and htaccess file still there.

Today Changed back advanced to standard URL, and also removed STRICT to std. and l´now links starting to work again....anything you know of before?

I have now disabled translate software for the time beeing.

Any suggestions what to do?! I do want the translatesystem active. Thats why I bought it

[vBET]

Hi.

Please note that when you changed link type you suppose to add special rules which will redirect language= links to SEO links. This way Google will know how to re-index it (I already PM you those rules).
You had not working links so visits where not count - you just need fixed links

Please give EXACT URL were the issue with too many redirects happens. If you do not want to have vBET enabled until we fix the issue then please send us access details to Admin CP, FTP and vbseo CP (if used) or just turn enable vBET so we can check what is going on. Also please send us your full .htaccess content.

[harleyforum.se]

Thanx! About them rules in .htcaccess. Should I edit anything on the string below? Add ALL the countrycodes like i did here, yes?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} language=(RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} language=(af|sq|ar|hy|az|eu|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|ka|de|el|ht|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|ur|vi|cy|yi)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1/$1? [L,R=301])

[harleyforum.se]

Did add the rules to htaccess file. nothing worked! error 500 something , forum and admincp was down. hag to remove the htaccess file and disable product.
You have to look at this later on**********

[vBET]

Thanx! About them rules in .htcaccess. Should I edit anything on the string below? Add ALL the countrycodes like i did here, yes?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} language=(RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} language=(af|sq|ar|hy|az|eu|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|ka|de|el|ht|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|ur|vi|cy|yi)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1/$1? [L,R=301])

This is broken. and it is not what I send you. Please see again here: http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co....html#post1541

Also those are rules just to change old links to new one. For new one you need SEO rules. If you didn't add it after changing links type it it obvious it couldn't work. It is clearly described in Linkt Type parmaeter:

Configure which type of translation links you want.

NOTE that SEO links require changes in .htaccess file which are described here.

So please:
- First make your SEO links working (test it)
- Then make your old links redirected to new one (also test it)

You have all required links In case of issues please send your WHOLE .htaccess content after changes you made.

[vBET]

Did add the rules to htaccess file. nothing worked! error 500 something , forum and admincp was down. hag to remove the htaccess file and disable product.
You have to look at this later on**********

It is because you set there wrong thing - please see previous post.

[harleyforum.se]

This is how it looks now. Added the 2 lines from your FAQ, correct? (my .htaccess is the one you have in the "do not upload" dir.) no changes made to that one. Just added the two lines.

[harleyforum.se]

My site SEEMS to work, but how do I know that all works alright?

Example Danish:

OLD:
http://harleyforum.se/?language=da

NEW:
http://harleyforum.se/da/forum.php

[r.dziadusz]

If you previously use like with language=xx you will have to use this code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=|language=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%2/$1? [L,R=301]

instead of your yellow colored :

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1\?language=%2 [L,R=301]

[harleyforum.se]

If you previously use like with language=xx you will have to use this code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=|language=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%2/$1? [L,R=301]

instead of your yellow colored :

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1\?language=%2 [L,R=301]

Sorry, don´t understand? Can I copy your new code above as it is or do I have to edit it somehow? My default languange is SV (swedish)