Re: Can admin but not browse to forum
Ah shouldn’t have assumed it was htaccess. This is from an earlier post:
500 Internal Server Errors are usually either related to your .htaccess file or to your file permissions:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/500-internal-server-error-1#post-13073
Here’s a number of reports from users who ran into similar issues – it was usually resolved by one of those two solutions:
Maybe try the permissions angle? Or if not, you could browse the 500-error tag for other possible approaches…