Question vbseo to dbseo

[rtiindia]

Sir,

I have vbseo installed over the server and I brought dbseo with a hope to migrate fully. I followed your steps of installation and changed vbseo to dbseo in .htaccess file.

I disabled vbseo and enabled dbseo.

However, the server load increased and the forum home url return the blank page.


http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/forum.php

So I had to disable the dbseo and renable vbseo.

Please help in solving the issue.

 

[Fillip H.]

Could you please create and PM me with a temporary FTP and AdminCP account?

For security reasons, we recommend you create a new FTP account only for DBTech support, then disable or delete it after we have both confirmed the issue has been solved and there are no further issues.

The same applies to AdminCP accounts; they should ideally be temporary accounts created for us only. If we have created an account on your site already, you can optionally boost that account to Administrator and then de-admin this account once the issue has been solved.

If you use a .htaccess password protection for your AdminCP directory, it is recommended that you create a new authorised user for DBTech and remove this user once the issue has been solved.

Please test any temporary accounts you create to ensure that the FTP account has access to the forum files, and that the AdminCP account can access the administrative controls for the product we are assisting you with.

Ensuring this is all in order before submitting the information will significantly speed up the process of assisting you. We will alert you via PM if there's any issues with the login information you have provided.

When sending the PM, for your security you should also un-tick the "Save a copy in my Sent Items folder" checkbox. When the access details have been received, we will delete the PM from our inbox. Ensuring you have not kept a copy of the PM reduces the risk of security breaches.

Thank you for helping us debug our products and allowing us to assist you, we appreciate it

 

[rtiindia]

I sent you the PM yesterday, I guess you have received it

 

[Fillip H.]

Please edit php.ini and set display_errors to On. I'm receiving blank pages, which means there's a PHP error your server is suppressing.

Let me know when this is done and I'll try again

 

[rtiindia]

I have disabled it, however, as was advised by VB for 4.2.2 define('SKIP_ALL_ERRORS', true); is the code I have kept it at config file, which you may need to change when you make another try

thanks

 

[Fillip H.]

For some reason, I'm no longer receiving a blank page when I visit a forum any more. The mod appears to work now

Let me know if you run into any further problems

 

[rtiindia]

I guess you have done the work over the forum now. Is it now fine to delete the vbseo?

However, I find that following errors are visible:

Every old thread shows this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbseo_extra_inc() in ......./includes/block/html.php(95) : eval()'d code on line 3, but a refresh of the URL loads it correctly. Why is that happening?

 

[Fillip H.]

I have disabled the "Recent Recommendations" block which was the culprit for this issue

 

[rtiindia]

Thank you most of it is now working.

A small question: Can I keep vbseo the way it is now: disabled and rename the vbseo directory. Once I am comfortable, I shall delete the vbseo. Is that fine, or do I need to remove everything that of vbseo?

 

[Fillip H.]

Keeping it disabled and renaming the directory is fine

 

[rtiindia]

Most of the links are working fine, however, my forum home page is showing 404 forbidden error. Is there something I need to add it to htaccess?

domain.com/forum/ is 404 forbidden
domain.com/forum/forum.php is working

Secondly, by download II URL links are not working. Is there a way I can add the custom URL details again?

here is what is setup in my custom rewrite rules:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&title=(.+?)&cid=(\d+)&ctitle=(.+)&id=(\d+)' => 'downloads/$3-$2/$1-$4/'
'downloads\.php\?do=cat&title=(.+)&id=(\d+)$' => 'downloads/$1-$2/'

 

[Fillip H.]

I've erased your FTP information from my system for security reasons, can you please re-send it?

 

[Fillip H.]

Most of the links are working fine, however, my forum home page is showing 404 forbidden error. Is there something I need to add it to htaccess?

domain.com/forum/ is 404 forbidden
domain.com/forum/forum.php is working

This was because your server throws a 403 Forbidden error if an index file was not found. I have resolved this server configuration issue on your forum.

Secondly, by download II URL links are not working. Is there a way I can add the custom URL details again?

here is what is setup in my custom rewrite rules:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&title=(.+?)&cid=(\d+)&ctitle=(.+)&id=(\d+)' => 'downloads/$3-$2/$1-$4/'
'downloads\.php\?do=cat&title=(.+)&id=(\d+)$' => 'downloads/$1-$2/'

The rewrite rules don't match the actual URLs used by Downloads II.

Actual URLs:

'^downloads.php?do=cat&id=(\d+)'
'^downloads.php?do=file&id=(\d+)'

Your rules:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&title=(.+?)&cid=(\d+)&ctitle=(.+)&id=(\d+)'
'downloads\.php\?do=cat&title=(.+)&id=(\d+)$'

Downloads II does not provide the titles for you to use in rewrite rules in the way you're attempting to do, sorry

 

[rtiindia]

Thanks for the 403.

For the download II

My rewrite was for example: http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/downloads/rti-consumer-cases-5/

and now it has become: http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=5

Similarly the actual download link was : http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/downloads/rti-consumer-cases-5/evidence-act-rti-act-consumer-protection-434/

and now it is broken..

Can you help me fix it.

 

[Fillip H.]

No, I can't.

vBSEO had its own code which enabled rewrite rules like the ones you provided above to work.
DragonByte SEO only supports rewrite rules from vBDownloads, our own download modification.

We have no plans to add more advanced D2 rewrite rules.

You will not be able to restore your old Downloads II URL structure using DragonByte SEO, sorry to say.

 

[rtiindia]

so can you help me create a 301 rule back to original titles?

 

[Fillip H.]

I'd recommend creating .htaccess rules, unfortunately I wouldn't know the specific rules you need.