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Started 1 year ago by julio19
Latest reply from motiongraphics01
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julio19
Member

Hi

Is bbPress supposed to create an .htaccess file for mod_rewrite URLs? I was expecting this, like in Wordpress, but there wasn't a file after install. Should I just create my own .htaccess?

Posted 1 year ago #
Ttech
Member

Does "PRetty URL's" at least work? If so maybe it's not supposed to...

Posted 1 year ago #
hyram
Member

I too set the pretty permalinks feature to "true" in the config.php file and none of the links lead to an actual page.

Do we need to create a .htaccess file for this? If so what do we put in it.

Sorry I am rewrite stupid.

Posted 1 year ago #
ergate
Member

This is what I am using

# BEGIN BBPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /location_of_install/ Options +MultiViews </IfModule> # END BBPress

Posted 1 year ago #
Potter_System
Member

Copying from this post, by mdawaffe

mod_rewrite:
bbPress can generate a sample .htaccess file for you if you log in and browse to bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php. Copy the output and save it into your .htaccess file. Alternatively, you might be able to forgo the rewrite rules and instead set Options +MultiViews

Posted 1 year ago #
ergate
Member

I gave this a try "bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php", and it did not work. I get an "Internal Server" error.
The multi views I posted earlier works with no problems. Any suggestions?

Posted 1 year ago #
BPartch
Member

I did the "bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php" and all is fine except the "tags" links give me a internal server error.

ergate yours seems to work perfectly. :)

Posted 1 year ago #
ergate
Member

Its becuase I switched back to Multiviews.
I was giving the other a try, but until I can get it to work I will stick with multiviews.

Posted 1 year ago #
mdawaffe
Key Master

The rewrite-rules.php file has a few typos. Try this:

http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

Posted 1 year ago #
jazzle
Member

NB: those typos are fixed in the latest version available from CVS/SVN.

Posted 1 year ago #
thomasw98
Member

Sometimes all of these comments are way over my head, so I have to just keep trying and trying...until I figure it out.

I kept having problems with this topic, until finally I figured out the the .htaccess file that should be changed was NOT the one that already existed in my www (root) folder but rather i had to create a NEW .htaccess file and store it in my forum subfolder.

I tried the suggested simple version first (i.e. "Options +MultiViews"), but it would not work on my server. I then used the more complex version to create a new .htaccess file with the following contents:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/?$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /forum/tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/$ /forum/rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([a-z]+)$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
</ifmodule>

You can see above that I already changed the "/path/to/bbPress/" part into "/forum/" as that is the name of the subfolder on my root directory in which I store my forum (your subfolder name is probably different, so be careful to use the correct name for YOUR subfolder, not mine!).

Put more simply, "forum" is the name of the subfolder in which config.php is stored. So...I created an empty .htaccess file, put the above noted gibberish into the file, then stored the file in the "forum" folder on my server where config.php is already stored.

Now it works like a charm!

Hope that helps some of my fellow newbies out there!

Posted 1 year ago #
mozey
Member

It sure does, thank you.

Posted 1 year ago #
nekketsu
Member

hi,
how to change "forum/1" by the name of the forum (category) ?

Posted 1 year ago #
umutyaku
Member

I am a new bbpress user and I have tried it 3 times. Finally I have read the answer of thomasw98, and fixed my system.

thanks a lot...

Posted 1 year ago #
motiongraphics
Member

I put the code of thomasw98 but...

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

why?? I put in my folder a new .htaccess file.. :(

Posted 1 year ago #
fel64
Member

Did you set pretty permalinks to true?

Posted 1 year ago #
motiongraphics
Member

yes! in config.php :(

Posted 1 year ago #
chrishajer
Member

A 500 error like you are getting means something is invalid in one of the files you edited. Can you post the config.php and the .htaccess - there's a syntax error somewhere.

Posted 1 year ago #
prebrov
Member

I'm still having that problem. I tried all solutions on this page, but had no luck getting pretty URLs. Forum is working fine, but whenever I apply .htaccess settings, either copy-pasted from this forum or from rewrite-rules.php, I get an error

Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /forum/topic/1 could not be found on this server.

Available variants:

* topic.php , type application/x-httpd-php, language ru

What could that be? I have the latest version of bbPress, it's using wordpress database for authorization & authentication, but runs in a separate directory.

Posted 1 year ago #
motiongraphics01
Member

ok chrishajer I post now my code

.HTACCES:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/?$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /forum/tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/$ /forum/rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([a-z]+)$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
</ifmodule>

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CONFIG.PHP:

<?php

define('BBDB_NAME', 'Sql*****_4');
define('BBDB_USER', 'Sql*****');
define('BBDB_PASSWORD', '********');
define('BBDB_HOST', '62.149.***.**');

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';

$bb->domain = 'http://www.motiongraphics.it';
$bb->path = '/forum/';

$bb->name = 'Motiongraphics Forum';

$bb->admin_email = 'info@motiongraphics.it';

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

$bb->page_topics = 30;

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

$bb->gmt_offset = +2;

define('BBLANG', '');

$bb->akismet_key = '*********3c';

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://motiongraphics.it';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://motiongraphics.it';

if ( !defined('BBPATH') )
define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' );

?>

Many Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
motiongraphics01
Member

!!!!!! Maybe I have resolved!!!!!! I set the pretty permalings to false in a config.php!!!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
chrishajer
Member

That's a good start. Is it resolved now?

Posted 1 year ago #
motiongraphics01
Member

yes it works! thanks!

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