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    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I have WP-MU 2.7.1 + BuddyPress 1.0.1 installed and set up at http://huddle.inversekarma.in. I have copied bbPress 1.0 Rc-1 to http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums. Now when I try to navigate to this address, I get the "The page you were looking for was not found" error. Is there something wrong with my htaccess? Please help! Thanks :-)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Are you certain the bbPress files are in a subdirectory of your WordPress installation? Can you post a directory listing showing where the files are located?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    It's probably a conflict with your WP htaccess settings...

    If you can put forums in your main public_html folder instead? I'm not sure how well nesting the folders like you've done will work.

    Example of my setup:
    /public_html/forums
    /public_html/blog

    Then for a subdomain:
    /public_html/SUB/blog
    /public_html/SUB/forums
    /public_html/SUB/gallery
    etc etc etc

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    If you add /forums/license.txt to your domain (can't type the whole domain from memory on this device) that file comes up, which means the files are installed in the correct location. So, my guess is that it IS something in the .htaccess or hosting control panel.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks Ipstenu and chrishajer.

    Yeah now I notice that the /forums/license.txt file opens up. I've suspected htaccess to be the source of trouble. So now what do I do to fix this? HELP :-)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Your htaccess is killing a /forums/ but NOT http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums/index.php

    Which takes you to http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums/bb-admin/install.php

    So ... either figure out what's in your htaccess outside of the regular wordpress stuff that might cause this, or use the index.php? Without seeing your htaccess we can't even guess too much.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I never saw even http://huddle.inversekarma.in/forums/index.php work!

    Here's my .htaccess in /huddle

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file= [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*)  [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$  [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

    And here's the one in /huddle/forums

    Options +MultiViews
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions ShowForbidden
    • Posted 2 years ago #
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file= [L]

    What's that for? It's the only thing I don't recognize.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hey thanks Ipstenu. I just tried removing this line:

    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file= [L]

    And the installer is running. I guess this error is resolved (Though now I'm having trouble with Step 3 of the installation, which means I'm running over to another topic).

    Thanks a lot :-)

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