Bug DBSeo breaks forum

[designguy]

We have installed DBSeo on a new forum, running VB 4.2.3. VB's own friendly URLs are set to standard URLs. We are running full https for this site. Site works fine until DBSeo is turned on. With DBSeo turned on, we get this message for every rewritten link:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Our htaccess file contains:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.3d-printingforums\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.3d-printingforums.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Filter Non-Latin char is set to Remove. Most settings are default with the exception of using forum_title to define all forum URL rewriting.

We are also running VBDownloads Pro. This was installed first and has been working fine.

We run the exact same configuration of DBSeo on another forum, and it works fine, but that forum is not on https.

 

[Fillip H.]

Have you tried adding DBSEO's rewrite rules to the .htaccess file and seeing if that works for you?

 

[designguy]

Copy all of the rewrite rules from DBSeo? How do I do that? I don't have a whole lot of experience writing rules in .htaccess files.

 

[designguy]

When we originally installed, it gave us the error that the path was not found. Trying to finagle with it resulted in getting the internal server error later. Should we even have the https rewrite rule in the htaccess file? For some reason, I feel that seems to be the culprit to me.

 

[designguy]

In fact, disabling the rule for the https redirect in the htaccess file now gives me for rewritten links (example below):

Not Found

The requested URL /3d-printing-news-forum/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

[designguy]

Ah, I see now. You have rewrite rules in a small Readme text file included with the installation. Now it is working, and now I'm getting Possible Admin CP / Mod CP / DBSEO CP exploit attempt!

 

[designguy]

Just found your solution on that problem in another thread. Fixed now. This thread can be marked answered/closed. Thanks!

 

[Fillip H.]

Glad you got it working