I need to create a few urls from my forum root at /community like so:

/community/forums/ – shows just a simple list of all forums

/community/leaderboards/ -custom functionality

/community/achievements/ – more custom functionality

It’s easy enough to achieve this with a query string and if statements in front-page.php, but I’m trying to use .htaccess to achieve this like so:

RewriteRule ^forums/$ index.php?view=forums [L,QSA]

I was getting the bbpress 404 page until I drilled down into bb-admin/functions.bb-core.php and changed line 667 from

$issue_404 = true;

to

$issue_404 = false

It worked fine but I’m not comfortable changing the core code like that, as it’s indicitave that I’m doing something wrong – but what exactly? What should I change about my approach to get the page to serve correctly?

[@aphelionz Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Its been a few weeks, figured I’d bump this. Can anybody shed some light?

[@aphelionz Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

Figured it out – just had to add a P to the RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^forums/$ index.php?view=forums [P,L,QSA]