[chrishajer]

Looks like this is wrong in your config.php:

$bb->uri = 'http://africanloft/forums/';

should be:

$bb->uri = 'http://africanloft.com/forums/';

Looks like you forgot the .com?

It’s also possible the ('BBDB_HOST', 'localhost') setting is wrong, but I saw the lack of a .com in the source for your page. None of the links on the index page work because they are all pointed to http://africanloft/forums/{whatever}