I have installed everything as described ( or so i think ) but when i click on the forum topics the correct url is shown but the page can not be found.

The forum is hosted in the folder tsmforum. Can anyone confirm whether the htaccess file is correct. I have tried removing the / from the second part of each string as well and that makes no difference. Rewrite mod is enabled as the htaccess in the root directory uses it correctly.

# 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 ^tsmforum/index\.html$ /tsmforum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^tsmforum/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /tsmforum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^tsmforum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /tsmforum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################

thanks

Unless tsmforum is a subdomain, the htaccess needs to go in the site root. The best way is to add it to the already existing htaccess in the site root.

If it is in a subdomain, then you don't need the tsmforum/ in the htaccess.

Thanks for that. In the end i changed the folder to a subdomain and got it working that way.

Thanks