Question dealing with old rewrite now DBSEO installed

[the case]

Hi,

When I installed DB SEO lite on the forum I made the required changes to the friendly URLS options page in the install instructions.

The site originally used the vBulletin rewrite rules, in the structure domain.com/forums/threads/post-name since installing DBSEO this is now domain.com/forums/forum-name/post-name.html.

As a consequence pages previously indexed by google using the old structure now if clicked through from google display a page with the error "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator."

Do I need to amend settings in db seo lite to allow the old link to work or do I need to add a rewrite rule to .htaccess, if so what do I need to add.

Help would be appreciated.

Case

 

[Fillip H.]

Open your .htaccess file and find

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|dbseocp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|dbseo_sitemap|mobiquo|forumrunner|api\.php|product\.php|branding\.php|arcade_global\.php|401\.shtml|mod_pagespeed_statistics)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ dbseo.php [L,QSA]

Add above

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) /showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) /forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) /entry.php?b=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L,QSA]

 

[the case]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response, the only issue I have after adding the code is that it is redirecting to domain.com/showthread.php?t=nnnn&page=

It seems to be missing /forums/ If I add that manually to change it to domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=nnnn&page= it works perfectly. I thought that be adding /forums/ before showthead.php in the new code it would work, but it doesn't seem to.

I guess I'm being stupid, what do I need to do?

Thanks

Case

 

[Fillip H.]

Try forums/ instead of /forums/ in the new code, see if that works