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vBSEO is completely out of business.

We don't call that "functional".. in fact, vBSEO is completely dysfunctional.

Update:

We installed DBSEO by DragonByte and went back to our original vBSEO URLs, but using DragonByte SEO (DBSEO).

So far, even though DBSEO is still in "beta" we like it much better than...

Got some email and private messages how there should be some magic "one liners" that can rewrite all the 404s "file not found" errors when all the URLs of a forum change when they remove vBSEO.
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As I mentioned before, each forum is configured differently. vBSEO had a lot of switches and many configuration options.

You have to look at your 404 errors and devised your own rewrite rules... ...

As you can see, it can take a lot of work to find all the 404 errors and create the mod_rewrite rules when a product like vBSEO is removed / decommissioned.

There are even more rules... I will...

Here are example rewrite rules for the forum page indexes:

RewriteRule ^solaris/index([0-9]+)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?f=43&pp=40&sort=lastpost&order=desc&daysprune=-1&page=$1
RewriteRule...

Here are example RSS rewrite rules for forum RSS, to compensate for removing vBSEO:

RewriteRule ^homework-coursework-questions/external.php(.*)$ /external.php?forumids=130 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule...

Here are some example rewrite rules when vBSEO was removed, for forums:


RewriteRule ^linux/$ /forumdisplay.php?f=45
RewriteRule ^google-chrome-os/$ /forumdisplay.php?f=131
RewriteRule...

Since vBSEO has been unsupported for sometime, we started to see many 404 errors because of problems with their rewrite engine. Here are some example mod_rewrite rules we had to implement as a...

Yes, vBSEO going out of business caused damage to our forum's SEO and caused a lot of other performance problems for us. In addition, decommissioning vBSEO and doing all the mod_rewrites to "do the...

As I think I mentioned, I wrote over 100 rewrite rules when I removed vBSEO from our forums.

.. and nothing is "simple" if you don't understand the basics of what you are doing. That is why you...

...OK, I think you should set up a test forum and learn the basics of mod_rewrite first before you "hack away" with mod_rewrite on your live forum.

You should just mirror your forum and then you...

... and you did not answer my (indirect) question about a test forum.

Are you doing this experimenting on a live forum and not a test forum?

Yes, but what I gave you was for a RewriteBase of / not /Forums/ as I mentioned to you.

I think for you it would be better if you just use a rewrite base of /, because you will just get...

Yes, I don't think that will work.

First of all, the example I gave you was for a RewriteBase of / not /Forums/.

Second, you don't need the RewriteCond for this RewriteRule to work properly.
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I advise you first find a way to completely remove vBSEO and at the same time, rewrite all your old vBSEO URLs to the original vB URLs....

When I recently did this, I wrote over 100 mod_rewrite...

RewriteRule /Forums/(.*)/([0-9]+)\.htm /Forums/showthread.php?t=$2

Yes, I know what you want.

You need to provide the exact link you want to be rewritten and the exact link you want the result to be.

I think this is pretty clear.

If you cannot provide...

You gave only the example of the URL that needs to be written. You also need to provide the example URL you want to be rewritten to ....

Every forum is unique in how the manage the URLs and SEO,...

Well, you can do that; but best you mod_rewrite the old vBSEO URLs to your new URL format.

You want 301 redirects, not 404 file not found errors.

Also, for future reference, for vBSEO sitemaps:

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Here is a screenshot of the vBSEO "database error".... hence the need to repost some of their reference information. Looks like they are going out of business for sure. Many vB forums (including...

Please note, this information was copied from vbseo.com, now showing a database error. This is posted for reference since vbSEO seems to be going out of business:

If you ever need to uninstall...