Fix Missing vBulletin Images In Custom Styles

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Fix Missing vBulletin Images In Custom Styles

Carnage

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by Carnage Carnage is offline

10 Aug 2008

This was a problem we were having on our forums, we have several different styles, each have their own image sets. When a new version of vBulletin came out that added a new icon or we installed an addon such as the blog we found that there were missing images all over the place.

The solution:
First, all alternative images were moved to a directory named skins, the images for each skin were put into appropriately named directories inside the skins directory.

Then the following code was placed into a .htaccess file in the skins directory.

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Essentially what this does, is if a file is not found within the sub-directories it rewrites it to look instead in the default vBulletin images directory.

This will work with all versions of vBulletin provided your host supports mod_rewrite directives in .htaccess files.

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Last edited by Dismounted; 11 Aug 2008 at 08:21..

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16 Aug 2008, 20:49

Triky

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Join Date: Mar 2007

Location: [Italy]

Wow, great idea Carnage-. You have a new personal message.
Italian translation for this article at vB-Italy.org - Italian vBulletin Suppport Forum: http://www.vb-italy.org/showthread.php?p=379#post379. Thanks to Carnage- for given permissions.

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Last edited by Triky; 16 Sep 2008 at 10:08.

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