Broken Link in ACP

Quote from zukro

Setting up user friendly URLs link in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is broken.

Why would it be broken?
Did you do the rewrite rules in your nginx or htaccess ?!

I think it needs be made more clear to people about using the rewrite rules.

Most people are not going to know that an htaccess file with the rewrites needs be put in ROOT folder where the framework is install, and also one put in each APP folder used as well (for each app like forum and gallery) to use rewrites. WBB 4.1 never needed you to put an htaccess file anywhere else except in the root folder where the framework is installed including rewrites in it for each app used.

That has changed with WBB Suite 3 and the apps used with it, and there is no clear documentation about how to setup things with it using rewrite rules.

How about a popup explaining that and having the .htaccess / nginx configuration in code boxes upon click on that link?

Quote from Alexander Ebert

Nothing has changes when it comes to URL rewrite rules, it still works exactly the same as with WBB 4.1

With WBB 4.1 you could put all the rewrite APP rules for each app in the same htaccess file dropped in root (where the framework is installed) and it would cover all the apps using rewrites. That didn't work when I tried doing it with Beta 1 to cover forum (same rules as used with WBB 4.1) to cover each app also - and instead had to drop another htaccess file in forum APP folder to get rewrites working with it.

The htaccess file in Root would only work covering the framework and article system with it. Didn't work once you added some forum topics, the links to topics are broken (even with rewrite rule added to cover forum) used in the htaccess dropped in root

Yes, that is the same on my server. My WBB 4.1 Installation works with one .htaccess, my WBB 5 Installations needs as many as i got apps. (Same webserver, both are on root of domain, exactly the same configuration)

Yep. I have to use this in ROOT folder

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

And then for every APP installed needed to drop another htaccess file in the APP folder (forum folder) with exact same code also.

Adding the extra rewrite rules for Forum, Blog, etc - to the htaccess file in ROOT doesn't work same way it does with WBB 4.1 to cover the extra APPS installed using rewrites

For me it does work with the following.

Same file as in WBB 4.1

### WBB SEO START ###
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite application /blog/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ blog/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /calendar/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^calendar/(.*)$ calendar/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /forum/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)$ forum/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /chat/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^chat/(.*)$ chat/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /gallery/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^gallery/(.*)$ gallery/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /filebase/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^filebase/(.*)$ filebase/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /wiki/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ wiki/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
### WBB SEO END ###

Doing that didn't work for me. Have you tried added some forum topics yet though and visiting the links? And not just visiting the main forum page link

Quote from Alexander Ebert

The code above is not supposed to cover apps installed in other directories, as it would cause the directory path to be added to the location parameter passed to index.php and that is just plain wrong.

But what he posted is what I did also with WBB 4.1 and it worked covering all the apps using 1 htaccess file in root

I tried this with Beta 1 coming with just forum placed in ROOT (didn't work)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite application /forum/
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)$ forum/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

# Rewrite application /
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Doing that again for WBB Suite doesn't work. Not when you add some forum topics and try to visit the links leading to them. Maybe duplicate exodus has not actually added any forum topics yet testing it to work?

Quote from Alexander Ebert

Could it be that your memory is betraying you here?

Nope, it didn't work with Beta 1 for me. I had to place two different htaccess files in both ROOT and in Forum folder with this in each one.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

I actually posted about it here before on the forum somewhere "at time" about it not working, and was told to do that instead - which got it working for forum.

Here is the topic before: Using ReWrite Rules with Beta