vBSEO integration

[roymogg]

The home page alliais to be blank is in the instructions for VBSO integration shown on vbulletin.org.

this was version243 I think - is this instruction no longer valid?

cheers

RoyMogg

text on vb.org

I have SEO translation links on, I use vBSEO and main page is not translating - what is wrong?
First, make sure that your .htaccess rules are OK - especially for forums with subdirectory in URL.
Second, do NOT use Define Homepage Aliases functionality from vbSEO (make sure that it is blank).

[vBET]

The home page alliais to be blank is in the instructions for VBSO integration shown on vbulletin.org.

this was version243 I think - is this instruction no longer valid?

cheers

RoyMogg

text on vb.org

I have SEO translation links on, I use vBSEO and main page is not translating - what is wrong?
First, make sure that your .htaccess rules are OK - especially for forums with subdirectory in URL.
Second, do NOT use Define Homepage Aliases functionality from vbSEO (make sure that it is blank).

Yes - this is not valid anymore. We made changes which allows to have home aliases now. I'm going there right now to remove old data. Thanks for pointing it to us

[magmf]

and about vbseo links for cms articles and blog posts ?

is there anything we need change to make this possible ?

[vBET]

and about vbseo links for cms articles and blog posts ?

is there anything we need change to make this possible ?

Those are translated by vBET - please see integration instructions in readme.html in vBET package

[trevis]

Hello, I know you say to add the rules before the rules htacces vbseo.php, but for many people it can be confusing, since there are two lines with "vbseo.php."

Here is the. Htaccess vBSEO original, you can specify the exact line that we must add the htaccess rules vBET?

1 RewriteEngine On
2 RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
3 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
4 RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
5 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
6 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
7 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
8 RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[trevis]

Please, someone can post a complete example of one. "Htaccess" that works with vBET and vBSEO?

I believe that the amount of posts (and pages) of this thread justifies an example.

[] S,
Rafael.

[vBET]

Hello, I know you say to add the rules before the rules htacces vbseo.php, but for many people it can be confusing, since there are two lines with "vbseo.php."

Here is the. Htaccess vBSEO original, you can specify the exact line that we must add the htaccess rules vBET?

1 RewriteEngine On
2 RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
3 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
4 RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
5 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
6 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
7 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
8 RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

It is clearly described to add vBET rules just before ALL rules to vbseo.php So 'just before ALL rules to vbseo.php' means - before first which is to vbseo.php - not earlier not later.

We didn't realize that it can be confusing. How you suggest we should describe it? - We will gladly take any suggestion how to improve his description

[vBET]

Please, someone can post a complete example of one. "Htaccess" that works with vBET and vBSEO?

I believe that the amount of posts (and pages) of this thread justifies an example.

[] S,
Rafael.

Please give your actual .htaccess content and forum URL - we will send you back rules with appropriate changes

[trevis]

The site is www [dot] Mandela [dot] org and mine. "Htaccess" now is this:

RewriteEngine on

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

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^404\.shtml$ "http\:\/\/www\.mandela\.org" [R=301,L]

#RULES for SEO translation links without any SEO engine (on raw vBulletin links)
#If you are using vB 'Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs' then put those rules JUST BEFORE vB rules
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|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|vi|sq|ca|et|tl|gl|hi|id|lv|lt|mt|sl|uk|vi|cy|yi)/archive/index.php/(.*)?$ archive/index.php?/$2&language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/$ index.php?language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/(.*)?$ $2?language=$1 [QSA]

#vBulletin Standard Rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [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} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

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

I am disabled with vBSEO. I've tried to put its rules before all vbseo.php but I had good results.

[trevis]

It is clearly described to add vBET rules just before ALL rules to vbseo.php So 'just before ALL rules to vbseo.php' means - before first which is to vbseo.php - not earlier not later.

We didn't realize that it can be confusing. How you suggest we should describe it? - We will gladly take any suggestion how to improve his description

For example, reading your instructions I would put the details of its htaccess between lines 3 and 4, is that correct? If I tried and it did not work