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Removing VBSEO for vbulletin – Reverting back to vbulletin URLs
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 vBSEO , you can use the following instructions. Make sure you carefully follow each step.
Login to your vBSEO Cp and disable vBSEO
Login to your Admincp and Browse to Plugins & Products
Uninstall vBSEO product file , on the next step you’ll be given 2 options
If you ever plan to install vBSEO on the same domain , choose Keep vBSEO data in Database
If you will not use vBSEO again choose Cleanup vBSEO Data
Delete all files include .htaccess from your server via ftp. You can find the list of files that needs to be deleted below.
After uninstallation you can also redirect your indexed content to original vBulletin urls. Please carefully check the rewrite rules and use the one that fits your current url structure. If your url structure isn’t listed below please post a sample example so we can supply the correct rules.
If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadid-threadname.html use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid.html use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid/ use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)/ http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
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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 ours) use vBSEO, so this is having a impact on many forums.
Thank you for this post...and Google Search! VBSEO was removed from my site a month ago as we determined it to be the cause of a hack-attack. I need now to clean up the installation as it was simply deleted and ripped out.
I went to simply delete the entries in the .htaaccess and delete VBSEO.php and learned within seconds that i just affected all search resluts as the URLS had changed. My URLs are a bit different as your examples and are just the id such as:
Moderator's Comments:
Removed Link. If you want help on mod_rewrite. post the URLs without the domain (FQDN).
Can you please figure out and post the rewrite url for this?
Also, can I simply delete the VBSEO rewrites as well? This is what I have:
The code I pasted was the code that was originally in the .htaaccess file. I was hoping you could help me along with the correct rewrite rule (similar to what you did above) where my link is only the threadid alone and not filename and threadid. That was why I gave the example. (/Forums/ssd-beginners-guide-discussion/1830.htm)
To be clear, I want to delete that code and redirect to the original urls and ensure seo is proper.
Last edited by TheSSDReview; 10-27-2013 at 06:31 PM..
10-23-2013
Removing VBSEO for vbulletin – Reverting back to vbulletin URLs
