Ignore vBulletin directory with WordPress site

  • My website PokerTrikz.com has WordPress installed to the root. WordPress is my main CMS and I run most everything through it. I also have a vBulletin forums installed to /forums/.

    Whenever I visit PokerTrikz.com/forums/ it gives me a WordPress layout with a 404 error. I’ve tried everything I could find on the WP and VB forums and no luck yet.

    I’ve tried a few different ways to tell WordPress to ignore /forums/ but nothing has worked. Here is the current htaccess
    WordPress htaccess

    Options +FollowSymLinks

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteRule ^forums - [L,NC]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    I’ve tried this and a few others I don’t remember right now.
    RewriteRule ^forums/.*$ - [PT]

    Here is the htaccess in the /forums/ folder if that matters. I’ve tried to change a few things on this one as well like enabling RewriteBase, but that didn’t do it.

    /Forums htaccess

    Options +FollowSymLinks

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /forums/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.pokertrikz\.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.pokertrikz.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Do this for WP:

    Options +FollowSymLinks

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

    WordPress, by default, will ignore any actual folders or files. So long as you’ve never had a page on your site called ‘forums’, this will work.

    Thread Starter Trikkur

    (@trikkur)

    That did not work. I’m still being redirected to a WordPress 404 page. I have never had a page called forums.

    This actually did work a while ago, but I removed the vbulletin files and re-uploaded some new ones and now it won’t work. Since hten, I have done a system back up, cleared the site and reuploaded everything, dropped the databases and recreated new ones. Tried every ignores option for both htaccess files.

    I am just totally stumped and have absolute no clue what is going wrong. I have another directory similar to /forums/ that I can browse to just fine and run the software just fine. The forums just refuse to work the same way.

    Thread Starter Trikkur

    (@trikkur)

    Ok, I managed to get it working and wanted to update this in case anyone else is having the same problems. I deleted the entire /forums folder and deleted the database. I created a new database and installed all the vbulletin files. WordPress let me browse to /forums this time and I was able to reinstall everything and then restore it.

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