Hi

Is bbPress supposed to create an .htaccess file for mod_rewrite URLs? I was expecting this, like in WordPress, but there wasn’t a file after install. Should I just create my own .htaccess?

[@ttech Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

Does “PRetty URL’s” at least work? If so maybe it’s not supposed to…

[@hyram Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

I too set the pretty permalinks feature to “true” in the config.php file and none of the links lead to an actual page.

Do we need to create a .htaccess file for this? If so what do we put in it.

Sorry I am rewrite stupid.

[@ergate Participant 18 years, 3 months ago]

This is what I am using

# BEGIN BBPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /location_of_install/

Options +MultiViews

</IfModule>

# END BBPress

[@potter_system Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

Copying from this post, by mdawaffe

mod_rewrite:

bbPress can generate a sample .htaccess file for you if you log in and browse to bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php. Copy the output and save it into your .htaccess file. Alternatively, you might be able to forgo the rewrite rules and instead set Options +MultiViews

[@ergate Participant 18 years, 3 months ago]

I gave this a try “bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php”, and it did not work. I get an “Internal Server” error.

The multi views I posted earlier works with no problems. Any suggestions?

[@bpartch Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

I did the “bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php” and all is fine except the “tags” links give me a internal server error.

ergate yours seems to work perfectly.

[@ergate Participant 18 years, 3 months ago]

Its becuase I switched back to Multiviews.

I was giving the other a try, but until I can get it to work I will stick with multiviews.

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

The rewrite-rules.php file has a few typos. Try this:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[@jazzle Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

NB: those typos are fixed in the latest version available from CVS/SVN.

[@thomasw98 Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

Sometimes all of these comments are way over my head, so I have to just keep trying and trying…until I figure it out.

I kept having problems with this topic, until finally I figured out the the .htaccess file that should be changed was NOT the one that already existed in my www (root) folder but rather i had to create a NEW .htaccess file and store it in my forum subfolder.

I tried the suggested simple version first (i.e. “Options +MultiViews”), but it would not work on my server. I then used the more complex version to create a new .htaccess file with the following contents:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /forum/

RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/?$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /forum/tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/$ /forum/rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([a-z]+)$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</ifmodule>

You can see above that I already changed the “/path/to/bbPress/” part into “/forum/” as that is the name of the subfolder on my root directory in which I store my forum (your subfolder name is probably different, so be careful to use the correct name for YOUR subfolder, not mine!).

Put more simply, “forum” is the name of the subfolder in which config.php is stored. So…I created an empty .htaccess file, put the above noted gibberish into the file, then stored the file in the “forum” folder on my server where config.php is already stored.

Now it works like a charm!

Hope that helps some of my fellow newbies out there!

[@mozey Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

It sure does, thank you.

[@nekketsu Member 18 years, 1 month ago]

hi,

how to change “forum/1” by the name of the forum (category) ?

[@umutyaku Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

I am a new bbpress user and I have tried it 3 times. Finally I have read the answer of thomasw98, and fixed my system.

thanks a lot…

[@motiongraphics Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

I put the code of thomasw98 but…

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

why?? I put in my folder a new .htaccess file..

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

Did you set pretty permalinks to true?

[@motiongraphics Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

yes! in config.php

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

A 500 error like you are getting means something is invalid in one of the files you edited. Can you post the config.php and the .htaccess – there’s a syntax error somewhere.

[@prebrov Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

I’m still having that problem. I tried all solutions on this page, but had no luck getting pretty URLs. Forum is working fine, but whenever I apply .htaccess settings, either copy-pasted from this forum or from rewrite-rules.php, I get an error

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /forum/topic/1 could not be found on this server.

Available variants:

* topic.php , type application/x-httpd-php, language ru

What could that be? I have the latest version of bbPress, it’s using wordpress database for authorization & authentication, but runs in a separate directory.

[@motiongraphics01 Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

ok chrishajer I post now my code

.HTACCES:

---

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /forum/

RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/?$ /forum/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /forum/tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)$ /forum/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/$ /forum/rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([a-z]+)$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</ifmodule>

---

CONFIG.PHP:

<?php

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘Sql*****_4’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘Sql*****’);

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘********’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘62.149.***.**’);

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.motiongraphics.it&#8217;;

$bb->path = ‘/forum/’;

$bb->name = ‘Motiongraphics Forum’;

$bb->admin_email = ‘info@motiongraphics.it’;

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

$bb->page_topics = 30;

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

$bb->gmt_offset = +2;

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

$bb->akismet_key = ‘*********3c’;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://motiongraphics.it&#8217;;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://motiongraphics.it&#8217;;

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

Many Thanks!

[@motiongraphics01 Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

!!!!!! Maybe I have resolved!!!!!! I set the pretty permalings to false in a config.php!!!!!

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

That’s a good start. Is it resolved now?

[@motiongraphics01 Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

yes it works! thanks!