JC

I had to go into advanced settings and put in the Host Name. . .
I didn't think i needed to mess with the advanced stuff, but i guess i did.

MySQL Administration within 1and1 says my database is ready,
It gives:
Database Name- db344010893
User Name - dbo344010893
Host Name - db2653.perfora.net

I enter the Database/User Name as shown, enter my password and i get the error

"There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.
Please check the settings, then try again."

btw- i have the beginner hosting package with them.

What's the deal?

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

Others are also scratching their heads already ...

http://drupal.org/node/64967#comment-2006770

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in ....\htdocs\versam\bb-vers\bb-includes\[em]gettext.php on line 295[/em]

I'm not a php-programmer, but I start to wonder how much coding effort would be needed to switch to the required new php-functions?

Could somebody provide a matchmaking list eventually (or point to helpful further info), of what should (can) be replaced by what function? The php docs - when looking up the functions in question - are not of much help describing the transition issues.

TIA

after following _ck_'s advice to use 0.9.0.6 still - and after starting over with my bbPress project already assembled under 1.02 - I ran into the following problem today:

After installing XAMPPlite (Windows32) v1.7.2, several routines of bbPress started to flag the 'Deprecated' errors.

My provider 1&1 ist using PHP 5.28 still - but nobody knows when they would upgrade to 5.3 finally .

Any advice how to tackle the challenge - not only the messages?

TIA (from Germany)

Options -MultiViews

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050

I have domains with 1&1 and I needed to do that to make the rewrite rules work for me.

as many topics in this forum, this is another one concerning permalinks. I have read the FAQ here: http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks and I have tried both, using Options +MultiViews and also using the code generated by /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php but I cannot seem to get my permalinks working.

http://www.mitstil.com/community is the link to my forums.

The bbpress installation will use pretty permalinks but my host calls it a 404! Please help!

I'll definitely keep that in mind next time I'm copying and pasting anything.......

And you're welcome for the donation - as mentioned it was very well deserved! I'm self-employed and have a tiny budget, but I always try to reward plugin and theme developers, especially when they are so nice about providing support that goes way above and beyond the norm as you have :)

ps. thank you very much for the donation!

The odd part is that I never found any errors when I added the RewriteRule lines back in one by one - it was time consuming but worth it in the end (seems strange that copying & pasting the whole block in at once triggered the 500 error, but doing them one by one did not, but oh well - sometimes it's just better to not question things too deeply)....

I even added in the three lines needed for the plugin and had no trouble, so now the page numbers are working perfectly on the front page.

I can't thank you enough for all your patience and perseverance with this problem....I just sent you a well-deserved donation via your link on the showcase.......if I were ever going to have kids I'd seriously consider naming my firstborn _ck_ :)

I did add back in the remaining RewriteRule lines, but that triggered the 500 error. I'll try adding them one by one until I hit the error, and post back which line it is.....

Then the forum should start using slugs.

To finish up after it's all working, go find those three extra rewriterule lines I posted much earlier and add those to the list and then you should be 100% done.

After those extra three lines are in, remember to test the front-page pagination which is what started this entire exercise in the first place, and hopefully they will be error free.

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/topic.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/topic.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/tags.php?tag=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/tags.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /Forum/tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/profile.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/profile.php?id=&tab= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/profile.php?id=&tab=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/profile.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /Forum/profile.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/view.php?view=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/view.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /Forum/rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /Forum/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/rss.php?forum= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /Forum/rss.php?forum=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/rss.php?topic= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/rss.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/rss.php?profile= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/rss.php?view= [L,QSA]

That might be the entire 500 error issue.
Some servers require it for mod_rewrite to work properly.

Options -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Forum/
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /Forum/forum.php?id= [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^travel-writers-exchange.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/ [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I also modified my .htaccess file in /Forum as follows:

Options -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Forum/
</IfModule>

No 500 Server error - Yaay! this is progress....slugs are still disabled.

We should probably approach this in baby steps to see what triggers it.

That "Multiple Choices" error is not good.
It means MultiViews is still ON for some reason when it should not be. Maybe you did the MultiViews turn off incorrectly?

Right now I assume the webroot has a .htaccess with Options -MultiViews at the top, then the rest of what you listed above for WordPress. Like so:

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^travel-writers-exchange.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/ [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Now in /Forums/ I want you to make a reduced .htaccess file like this:

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Forum/
</IfModule>

Make that minimal amount and see if it that still functions without a 500 error. (keep the slugs disabled for now)

Anyway, to answer your question, no - I read all the instructions on pretty permalinks and did not see that - I thought I read most of the posts on the issue but must have missed that. In any case it did not work for me....

I put $bb->mod_rewrite = "slugs"; into my bb-config.php and uploaded - this of course changed my default permalinks to the name-based ones (great) but when I click on the links, I get this error message:

Multiple Choices

The document name you requested (/Forum/topic/article-titles) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.
Available documents:

/Forum/topic.php/article-titles (common basename)
Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the broken link.

And of course if I have the .htaccess file uploaded, I still get the 500 Server error

Apparently others here who use 1and1 solved it so you probably can too.

By the way, you are adding
$bb->mod_rewrite = "slugs";
to the bb-config.php correct?

You can try also putting Options -MultiViews at the top of the .htaccess in the /Forum/ directory too. Note it goes above and before the first <if (first line)

I do appreciate your time and efforts - maybe when you wake up the morning a new idea will be dancing around in your head...... :)

At the start of the root .htaccess try putting
Options -MultiViews

Other than that, I'm out of ideas for today and will have to "sleep on it".

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^travel-writers-exchange.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/ [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Root (WP install) works fine, but when I put the .htaccess file in /Forum then I still get the 500 error....

I have to run out but will be back in about 1/2 hour.....

RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /Forum/ [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ /Forum/ [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /Forum/?page=$1 [L,QSA]

(put them just before </IfModule>)