[jethrokapinksy]

Ok, I just realized that what worked for me only applied to a ‘clean’ top-level install, and what people are having issues with is installing bbpress in example.com/forums/, because example.com’s .htaccess is over-riding example.com/forums/ ‘s .htaccess file.

So here’s my example.com (permalinks work great):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

chmod: 644

And here’s my example.com/forums .htaccess content:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /forum/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)?$ /forum/$1.php [PT,QSA]

</IfModule>

Any ideas?

Thanks