I think accessing http://www.website.com/bbpress/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php will create the .htaccess rewrite rules. If you made other modifications to the .htaccess and deleted the file, it’s just like any other file you delete; it’s gone. You would need to recreate it by hand.
???
my .htaccess has only this single row:
Options +MultiViews
finalwebsites: does it work? If so, that’s all you need. If permalinks are not working, then your server does not support Options +MultiViews
and you need the longer explicit rewrite rules as generated by bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php
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Ok Chris, thats the reason
yeah it works great (all my WP blogs are working the same way)