I installed bbPress into my WP directory such that its index.php lives here: http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/

The admin tool seems to work fine. I am able to create topics and whatnot, see users, and all that. BUT, when I click on a topic, I receive file not found message.

For example, I went to add a new test topic:

http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/?new=1

And when I clicked [Send Post], instead of seeing the post or some other page displayed, I received an error for this url:

http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/topic/3?replies=1#post-3

When I look in the forums folder, there is no “topic” folder, so I’m wondering what exactly I messed up during installation. Please advise. Thank you.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 9 months ago]

There is not supposed to be a folder names “topic” – that is done with mod_rewrite on Apache. Can you try disabling mod_rewrite in your config.php and see if it works?

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

If your forum works after that, then you need to do some work with your .htaccess and rewrite rules, or just leave non-pretty permalinks. But try that first, I think that’s why you’re getting 404 errors.

You didn’t mess up anything I don’t think.

[@sydspinnin Member 17 years, 9 months ago]

You know, I went back and wiped everything out and did installed it again and this time all went well and I’ve got it working. Not sure what was amiss, but happy now. Thanks for taking the time to help.