Question Upgraded from 2.0.27 to 2.0.31 ran into visual issues

[RedWS600]

I applied the upgrade from 2.0.27 to 2.0.31, I had upgraded to 2.0.29 in the past but ran into visual issues so revered back to 2.0.27.

It appears the page is malformed like its trying to get images from an incorrect URL. It all worked perfect in 2.0.27. As the forum is in use, instead of playing around with settings in DBSEO I revered back until I know what settings to look for. Could someone steer me in the right direction on what settings I need to look at to get this newer version running correctly.

Thanks
Dan.

 

[Fillip H.]

Hi there,

From .27 to .31 one thing in particular changed; the way relative URLs starting with / is handled.

For instance, if your site is domain.com and your forum is domain.com/forums/ and you add a link to /index.html in your navbar, you expect this to go to domain.com/index.html. In your older version of DBSEO, that link would instead go to domain.com/forums/index.html

We corrected this, but unfortunately a very small number of customers that has a very peculiar setup encounter issues with this. Consider the following scenario:
1. Your forum is in a subdirectory
2. Your skin developer used these malformed links / image URLs
3. You relied on the old, broken behaviour in order for the links/image URLs to work as intended

This will no longer work for you.

Could you please double-check this for me?

 

[RedWS600]

Hi, I got around to re-uploading the files this morning. Had a bit if a hectic day yesterday so couldn't try then.

My logo image at the top left
/images/solent-renegades-logo.gif
however after new SEO files its
/content.php/images/solent-renegades-logo.gif

In 'Site Name / URL/ Contact Details' settings
I have
Forum URL:

http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk

Forum URL as base path: Yes
Forum Component URL: <blank>
CMS Component URL: <blank>
Blog component URL: <blank>


Even the CSS calls have content.php added to the URL

http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=dbtech_vbshout.css

I have attached the HTML main pages from Forum and CMS. Its probably just a setting I'm missing. You will probably spot the issue straight away.

Revered back to .27 until further instructions.

Thanks
Dan.

 

[Fillip H.]

Could you please change the image URLs from /images/solent-renegades-logo.gif to {vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/images/solent-renegades-logo.gif (assuming this definition is found in the CSS files) or to images/solent-renegades-logo.gif (if this definition is in the StyleVars), and see if this works better for you?

 

[RedWS600]

That may sort out the logo, but what about the CSS files? Its calling up:-
/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=dbtech_vbshout.css
which its not going to find.

 

[Fillip H.]

Looking at your sites just now, about half of them are served via a CDN, and half are served locally. Would you be able to give me more details as to how exactly your CDN system works? Is it via vBO?

 

[RedWS600]

CDN URL's are done via GooglePage speed(configured by SSH into the linux command line). I can turn that off for testing.
It basically scans the page before serving for any images/css served from

http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk

and changes it to the CDN URL

Its turned off now. I guess its always good to start with disabling other mods that may be affecting things.

Below are a few segments of the html code. Favicon is wrong, next two links are correct, others are wrong with content.php inserted.

	<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/clientscript/vbulletin-core.js?v=423"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00001l/main-rollup.css?d=1456824253" />
 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=dbtech_vbshout.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=dbtech_vbshout_colours.css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=dbtech_vbshout_editor.css" />

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00001l/forumhome-rollup.css"/>

       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1436807998&td=ltr&sheet=sidebar.css,widgets.css,tagcloud.css"/>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/content.php/css.php?styleid=1&langid=1&d=1435782771&td=ltr&sheet=additional.css" />

 

[RedWS600]

Nothing fancy in the header template

<vb:if condition="$stylevar['favicon']">
	<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="{vb:stylevar favicon}" type="image/x-icon" />
</vb:if>

Now when I look in staylevars for favicon I have

/favicon.ico

So I believe this is all default vBulletin stuff.

 

[Fillip H.]

Now when I look in staylevars for favicon I have

/favicon.ico

So I believe this is all default vBulletin stuff.

This is definitely not default. The default is

favicon.ico

You can easily tell whether a stylevar has been customised by the fact its colour will be red in the stylevar list.

Do you have any CDN integration modifications? There's no reason why a couple links would be correct whereas the others would be incorrect, this leads me to believe you may have a mod installed that changes the vbcsspath variable.

Normally this variable is empty, which would make the URLs work correctly.

 

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