vBulletin / Wordpress htaccess collision - Help!

Hey Guys,

I'm working with a site that has Wordpress at domain.com and vB 4 at domain.com/forums. Everything works okay as far as thread viewing and such with mod rewritten URLs in both WP and vB. Until you use a vBulletin script that passes a variable in the URL. For instance domain.com/forums/search.php?do=getnew spits out a WP 404. Search.php is physically on the server and works if I temporarily remove WP's htaccess so there's a collision there. Is there a way I can just tell WP's htaccess to ignore /forums/?

I've seen people run vB 4 as a subfolder of a WP site before so it's possible. I just don't know what to change. Any ideas? Thanks.

Here's WP's htaccess

Code:

 
# 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

Here's vB's htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine on
# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
RewriteBase /forums/
# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]
# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

 

Did you ever get this working?
if so, what was it?

Thanks

 

I did. I forget what I did though. I'm lucky if I remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

I probably took the easy route and moved the forum to a subdomain.

 

I hear ya