Uhm, scrub the above... I had to delete the topmost line of code, and it works flawlessly LoL.

I've been scratching my head on this for a week... and minutes after posting a request for help, an idea occurs to me and BAM it's spot on ... ain't that just typical :p

Make sure you have no line breaks in your htaccess file, with one rule per line.

Thanks for the reply, cscgal...
I got it working, after I removed
from the .htaccess, it works flawlessly...

Anyhow, thanks for a great script - I'll be adding your site to my links as appreciation.

Thank you

Just a quick note, post #1 now has [html]<br />[/html] all over it ...

A couple of queries, if I may, cscgal...

What is the relevence of the code in the .htaccess I removed and why does it seem to work for most, yet not on my setup? I'm assuming my linux server has some kind of different setup to standard setups?

Have you any idea why since implementing this hack, my navbar has doubled up?

I use vbadvanced and it was working perfectly fine on my test site but now it's live, the navbar & forum-description are doubled up.

Cheers in advance.

ETA: I disabled vbadvanced, and all seems well with the navbars... hmmmm

Also, my "who's online" now shows the thread url (unknown location /thread123.html) instead of the title of the thread, as previously.

Assuming a reply to my queries was forthcoming, I'll beat ya'll to the punch.
I edited the adv_portal and removed $navbar in my various styles. That seems to have resolved the issue

Thanks for your mod
It worked with me fine except when I try to merge posts or thread

so is this code will solve this problem
and if it yes

where I should add it ?

No, that won't solve the merging problem. What you need to do is explain to your moderators that in the field where it asks what thread to merge with, to enter the old, vB standard format in the form http://www.site.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100