Issues after APC Install

AlpineZone · December 13th, 2012, 08:56 AM

Hey guys,

In an effort to speed up my vbulletin and wordpress installs; I had my host install APC.

I now have a new issue, for some reason my Gallery, every link just redirects to the Forum. Ski and Outdoor Adventure Pictures - AlpineZone Image Gallery

Also all the image counts show [1213] pictures.

Any ideas?

Chuck S · December 13th, 2012, 12:05 PM

Interesting well our urls are formatted correctly look at the links so whatever is doing this may not even be related in any manner.

Let's do the common sense thing first.

Turn in global options the SEO feature to none. Does your gallery work?

If so then make sure you have renamed the gallery HTACCESS file to .htaccess then you can try turning on SEO.

If things work after doing all that then that was your issue you where missing the htaccess file. Kind of hard to comment further without more info but our program has all the urls on the links so whatever is happening is coming from another level of interaction.

AlpineZone · December 13th, 2012, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Interesting well our urls are formatted correctly look at the links so whatever is doing this may not even be related in any manner.

Let's do the common sense thing first.

Turn in global options the SEO feature to none. Does your gallery work?

If so then make sure you have renamed the gallery HTACCESS file to .htaccess then you can try turning on SEO.

If things work after doing all that then that was your issue you where missing the htaccess file. Kind of hard to comment further without more info but our program has all the urls on the links so whatever is happening is coming from another level of interaction.

Thanks Chuck. Just realized the [1213] photos thing was just the album name; not an issue with image counts btw.

I turned off the SEO feature and the images work again. My htaccess file (in forums/gallery/) is called .htaccess already. I can post in the rewrite rules that are in there?

I do see the links are correct. Could it be something at a lower level .htaccess setting?

Chuck S · December 13th, 2012, 12:14 PM

It could be in however you did your server config that your SEO does not work anymore.

Tell me do spider urls work?

Your forum does not appear to be using SEO either so I wonder what would happen on your site if you try using the vb seo feature. The only thing I know of is spider urls require AcceptPathInfo or AllowPathInfo to be on depending on what apache version you have and as far as SEO to knowledge as long as mod rewrite is installed it should work. I mean has the server been setup to recoginise htaccess files. It can be a multitude of issues here.

The point being your server supported things fine then you reconfigured your server and now its broken. You need to look at the server config. You host might be able to assist there.

AlpineZone · December 13th, 2012, 12:21 PM

Sorry Chuck, any idea how I check if Spider URL's work?

I am not using VBSeo. It had previously been installed but we had a lot of issues and ended up giving up on it. I am just using the built in VB4 SEO options.

I am on a VPS and the only thing I asked the host to do was disable SuPHP and add in APC caching (as a php handler). Everything else seems to be OK.

Thanks for your help - you guys have great customer support!

Chuck S · December 13th, 2012, 01:46 PM

Under your SEO options in global options you can choose none,spider,seo

I was talking about the forum SEO under friendly urls in vb admin they have mod rewrite also.

You can make sure you make an htaccess for the forum directory with these contents

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I would suspect your mod rewrite is not working

AlpineZone · December 13th, 2012, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Under your SEO options in global options you can choose none,spider,seo

I was talking about the forum SEO under friendly urls in vb admin they have mod rewrite also.

You can make sure you make an htaccess for the forum directory with these contents

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I would suspect your mod rewrite is not working

Yeah, the only thing that changed was the install of APC but maybe the host did something else as well.

phpinfo() seems to show mod_rewrite as still installed.

Tried dumping that rewrite rules into my .htaccess in the forum root and enabling mod_friendly URl's in Vbulletin and the site wouldn't load any longer.

Chuck S · December 13th, 2012, 04:22 PM

What I posted above is the htaccess I use in my forum to use MOD REWRITE URLS on vb

Anyway yes it appears your issue seems related to your recent server changes. Just make sure you turn off seo urls in the forum and gallery until you can resolve your problem with the server changes.

Chuck S · December 14th, 2012, 03:46 PM

Did you figure anything out yet?

AlpineZone · December 14th, 2012, 03:52 PM

Hey Chuck,

No, still working on this above. I haven't used Mod Rewrite. I'm still working with the host. Thanks for the follow up. All the above is very helpful in my troubleshooting. I have a couple other quirky things happening, I wonder if it is a permissions based issues since switching from SuPHP to APC essentially changes the webserver user .

Chuck S · December 14th, 2012, 05:35 PM

Yeah as far as the SEO mod rewrite would definately need to be installed and working on the server. Just let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them.

AlpineZone · December 18th, 2012, 11:07 AM

It was an issue with mod_rewrite on the server. I had a linux sysadmin review and now I'm functioning fine. Thanks for all the help Chuck.

Chuck S · December 18th, 2012, 12:14 PM

Yep pretty much figured mod_rewrite was not working.

Glad your all set.