[extremejacob]

I’m not using the same theme, but my theme came with a bunch of place holders for links e.g. “Link A”, “Link B”, … inside the different theme files (in the theme folder) which I could edit manually. That made it easy to find where to fix it.

Look in your theme folder for header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php or similar. Put the link code (a href .. ) in there where appropriate. If you don’t have place holders, you have more work to do.

[extremejacob]

Thanks!!!

That fixed it. Easy to do, even though I never used phpmyadmin before.

[extremejacob]

Okay, figured out that two .htaccess files are okay. This is what I have in public_html/forum/

# BEGIN bbPress

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

etc.

These rules seem to stay the same regardless of what kind of permalinks I set. Does that make sense?

As mentioned in the post at the top: The front page works fine. All the links are broken in named-based permalinks, but work fine with “None”.

[extremejacob]

Curses! Not completely solved.

I think my .htaccess is wrong. Currently, it only works with “none”/number based permalinks. When I switch to name-based, I get

I’m sorry, but there is nothing at this URL,

when I click on forums and topics.

Any ideas?

One dumb question: Is it possible to have two separate .htaccess files? One for the blog in public_html/htaccess and one for the forum in public_html/forum/.htaccess?

[extremejacob]

Thanks! I posted my solution under that topic.

[extremejacob]

Here’s what worked for me.

I changed from website.com/forum/ to forum.website.com/

I had name-based permalinks. My forum was in public_html/forum

1) Set up the subdomain (used cpanel with host; this uses the same dir as before)

2) Switch name-based permalinks to none (very important! You can do this temporarily. Nothing bad happened to me.)

3) Change the URL from website.com/forum/ to forum.website.com/ in general settings.

4) I had to log back in again after this step.

5) Go to admin. I couldn’t get to admin after logging in. The link was pointing me to forum.website.com/forum/bb-admin … I manually typed in

forum.website.com/bb-admin .. that worked.

6) Change back to name-based permalinks.

7) The admin link magically works now.

Go into .htaccess and insert things like

RedirectMatch 301 /forum/topic/(.*)$ http://forum.website.com/topic/$1

Solved!