When you run this query, does your old URI show up anywhere?
SELECT * FROM bb_topicmeta WHERE meta_key=’uri’
As for the word “slugs”, I’m pretty sure it comes from typesetting. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)
That’s what I altered manually johnhiler, through my cPanel. I’ve just checked it, and it correctly points to the forum folder, so the index.php comes up fine. As I say, permalinks of None are fine, but Names aren’t, even though they’re in the tables.
I had this a few weeks ago with another forum, and setting the URI in the DB fixed it. I may just drop the DB and run the installer to sort it out, as there’s nothing much there yet anyway.
Sounds like there is a conflict between .htaccess files now that the forum is in a subfolder after being moved. Did you update your .htaccess rules for the new folder you installed the forum in?
Ah, that I haven’t. I copied it into the folder. Mind you, it doesn’t seem to have anything defined in it which points to the old path. Here’s the content;
Options -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^pm/?(.*)$ /my-plugins/bbpm/index.php?$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /profile.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I have no idea what any of it does!
I am guessing you need to change your
RewriteBase
from
RewriteBase /
to
RewriteBase /forum/
where forum is the name of your subfolder.
You don’t have to, and shouldn’t really edit the slugs in the database ever.
I just moved it all back out of the sub-folder, and everything’s fine now. For some reasons a new install wouldn’t work in the sub-folder either, but no matter. Thanks guys.
