Hey everyone I'm having some problems getting this mod to work on my phpbb forum, I believe the problem is related to my htaccess file.

When I don't use an htaccess file I can access the main page fine and it looks like the mod was installed because the forums point to html links but none of them work. I use the htacess file and then I get an error 404 saying the page can't be found.

The forum index.php file is located here:
htdocs/myforum/forum/index.php

I tried using an htaccess file in htdocs/myforum and htdocs/myforum/forum/ and I ended up getting the same errors for both. Here is my htaccess file:

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# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES            #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


Whenever the htaccess is in the forum folder i get rid of 'forum' parts of the htaccess file.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I recommend installing .htaccess in the root and specifying "myforum/forum" as your prefix, e.g.:

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# FORUM
RewriteRule ^myforum/forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ myforum/forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

Otherwise you may want to try removing this line:

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RewriteBase /

since your install as written is not relative to root.

Hey thanks for the response,

I tried both things and I am still having the same problem. Right now I have the htaccess in the root folder and I'm still getting 404 errors.

Any suggestions? Thanks

Have you added myforum/forum/ in all your rewriterules as HB suggested you to (eg two time per rewriterule) ?

You could, depending on your server settins, need to add a slash here :

RewriteRule ^myforum/forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /myforum/forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

in all rewriterules as well.

Still not working... Heres my htaccess:

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# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES            #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################



It is located here right now: htdocs/myforum/.htaccess
my forum index and the mod is installed here: htdocs/myforum/forum/index.php

Thanks

You should either put the .htaccess in the domain's root (eg in htdocs/) with the full path to your forum mentionned in the rewriterules :
/myforum/forum/ (not only /forum/)

or put it in the forum dir (htdocs/myforum/forum/) and use :

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RewriteBase /myforum/forum/

with no path mentionned in the rewriterules and no right slash :

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RewriteRule ^f[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

and so on with all rewriterules.

Awesome, it looks like its working now.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone, I appreciate it