Issue: VaultWiki 3 Beta4

What do you mean by "boom"? What error message are you seeing?

Sorry should know to be more desriptive. It gave a 404 page.

Was this error message across your whole forums or just wiki pages? I was under the impression that it was all pages, but I can't see why the "Simplify Wiki Links" option would have affected non-wiki pages.

If it was just wiki pages, you may want to visit VaultWiki > Initial Wiki Setup > Mod-Rewrite Generator in your AdminCP and make sure your rules are correct. This tool is new, so it may still have some bugs, but it's still much easier to use than trying to follow our docs on Mod-Rewrite.

Can you post an example URL that gave the 404?

I suspect there's an issue if you post the code for mod rewrite after any htaccess rewrite if you are using the vBulletin SEO. I placed the htaccess first, and it worked fine for me.

While yes it's quite annoying that vBulletin added a rule that functions as a catchall and then proceeds to tamper with the query string - and would have similar results, this issue was reported as occurring under vB 3.8. However, that doesn't prevent Hostboard from having other RewriteRules that, if in a particular order, could result in 404 errors when Simple URLs are enabled. To rule this out, I recommend posting the relevant parts of the .htaccess file.

If not that, it's possible the problems here are related in part to the problems that were discovered today with the Island namespace. Basically, if you performed a fresh install with version 2.5.0 or later, OR you performed a database restore since upgrading to 2.5.0 or later and the backup was from after the upgrade, your namespace IDs get reordered and result in pages that have broken URLs or say "There is no text in this page" (NOT fixable by Rebuild All Namespaces).

Whether it's even a contributing factor at all is a good question, but I did visit hostboard.com yesterday and notice some pages that may have been screwed up by this bug.

This discussion has been restarted in: http://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/1203/