Spider Friendly / SEO URL's Not Working?

[Kaelon]

Hi everyone,

I've got a customized vBulletin with vBSEO (3.0.0 Build "D" Ioncube) running, and I disabled vBSEO on my /dyna directory. I uploaded the .htaccess to the /dyna directory, and then enabled Spider Friendly URLs, but the nice URL's return a 404 error when clicked. Any thoughts as to why this would be happening?

Thanks!

[Brian]

I tried to take a look at your site, but I can't seem to find where you have vBa Dynamics installed. There's not anything I can think of that would affect the SEO URL's though as long as you uploaded the .htaccess file, so would you mind just submitting a support ticket so I can have a look at things?

[Kaelon]

Sure, will do!

[Dawn]

Hey Brian,

I don't see the .htaccess file in the download for some reason.

[Brian]

It's in the 'Extras (do not upload)' folder.

[Dawn]

I really looked I promise. Oh you know what! I bet I have a hide certain files thing going on with my computer. If it's there, I'll get to it then :grinning:

[Dawn]

This is a Mac thing. No hrmfph from ya Brian

Editing files that begin with dots can mess things up so they are hidden by default within the finder. I don't have a problem seeing them within my ftp (GoLive) or of course on the external server, but if you want to check out all these hidden files on a Mac's regular finder windows enter this in your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder


This is just one way.

[Brian]

Ahh, thanks for sharing that. I'm sure there's another Mac user somewhere out there that would have had that problem, and I wouldn't have had a clue what to tell them.