[arrowj]

When I turn off pretty permalinks everything works great, but when I turn it on it tries to load the page as if it were part of my Wordpres blog and of course that post does not exist. I use advanced permalink structures in my WordPress blog so I’m not sure why this is happening. Any suggestions? I do not have my blog integrated with my forum (other than sharing the same db).

[arrowj]

added .htaccess…problem solved

[richbrown]

ArrowJ, where did you add the .htacess file?

I have one for WP.

Is this a new one?

[chrishajer]

You need to add a .htaccess file for bbPress. You generate the rules by going to your site, here (once logged in as keymaster):

http://www.example.com/forum-directory/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php

Then, paste those rules into a .htaccess file in your forum root.

[richbrown]

I did that and it takes me back to the forum page.

[chrishajer]

It’s possible that the .htaccess one level up (WordPress directory) is conflicting with this .htaccess. You can just turn off permalinks for now until you figure it out. If you’re intent on figuring it out to get permalinks working, you might want to spend some time browsing threads that are tagged identical to this one.