[tiszenkel]

I’m running a fresh installation of bbPress, albeit with the WordPress integration and Bozo-error-fix plugins, and I noticed that certain links return a “No input file specified” error page. Here’s an example:

http://www.queenscentral.com/forums/tags/

The homepage RSS seems to do the same thing:

http://www.queenscentral.com/forums/rss/

Though other RSS feeds are working fine.

Anybody know what could be causing this?

[gtim]

In some PHP setups, this error is given when there is no file to access. Make sure that you really uploaded every file and nothing got disrupted, and that mod_rewrite is working. Check if mod_rewrite redirects /forums/tags to a page that really exists.

[tiszenkel]

Hmm — forums/tags is being redirected to a page that exists, tags.php. But even navigating straight to tags.php causes the same error. I opened up tags.php in a text editor to see what was in there, and it referenced several files that don’t seem to be anywhere in my bbPress installation: bb_tag-single.php, tag-single.php and bb_tags.php. Could this be the problem? I downloaded a completely new copy of bbPress and couldn’t find them in there, either.

Here’s the tags.php code:

<?php

require_once('./bb-load.php');



bb_repermalink();



// Temporary, refactor this!



if ( !$tag && $tag_name )

bb_die(__('Tag not found'));



if ( $tag_name && $tag ) :



$topics = get_tagged_topics($tag->tag_id, $page);

do_action( 'bb_tag-single.php', $tag->tag_id );



bb_load_template( 'tag-single.php', array('tag', 'tag_name', 'topics') );

else :



do_action( 'bb_tags.php', '' );



bb_load_template( 'tags.php' );

endif;

?>

[tiszenkel]

So, I figured this out myself. It turned out to be a problem with pretty permalinks. The bbPress instructions for enabling pretty permalinks say, in part:

2. Create a file called .htaccess in bbPress’ root directory. Put only the following line in that new file.

Options +MultiViews

3. Try it out. If it doesn’t work, your web server does not support MultiViews.

I suppose I was thrown off because for the most part, it did work. When I tried the documentation’s alternative instructions — feeding the output of rewrite-rules.php into .htaccess instead of the MultiViews call — the broken links suddenly worked fine.