How to make the URL clean, so it does not display like this http://mywebsite.tld/forums/index.php?p=

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• ronakg newb

  July 2011

  @luc, what is the precondition to enable rewriteurls? It doesn't work on my new server. I have checked that mod_rewrite is ON on my server.

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• luc ✭✭

  July 2011

  The .htaccess needs to be OK, and taken into account.
  That's apache2 stuff, I don't use apache.
  
  And you're apparently trying to use the .htaccess of vanilla after one was used by wordpress.

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• ronakg newb

  July 2011

  
  And you're apparently trying to use the .htaccess of vanilla after one was used by wordpress.

  What exactly do you mean here? I think this is the problem and I don't understand this part.
  
  The structure of files is same as my old installation.
  
  /htdocs/forum/[ALL VANILLA FILES]
  /htdocs/[ALL WP FILES]

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• ronakg newb

  July 2011

  I had to change

  RewriteBase /

  to

  RewriteBase /forum

  in my .htaccess file. Strange that it worked with original vanilla supplied .htaccess file in my previous installation.
  
  All is well now. Now off to figuring out how to change the link in notification email to point to embedded version.

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• AFN newb

  July 2011

  Check step 7.
  http://vanillaforums.org/docs/installation#moreinfo

  When I changed "FALSE" to "TRUE" the website only gave me dead links.
  
  $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;
  
  What else can be wrong?

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• ronakg newb

  July 2011

  ^^^ Check my previous comment above yours.

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• AFN newb

  July 2011

  I did that, and I still get my error page.

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• nolageek newb

  September 2011

  I've done this like 10 times but I still get 404 errors. Is it because I've installed in the root and not in a /forum directory? This is driving me insane.

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• Lincoln Snapperhead vanilla

  September 2011

  @nolageek Are you sure your server can use htaccess files? Default Apache won't allow it. It needs AllowOverride set correctly.

  Developer at Vanilla Forums, Inc. [GitHub, Twitter]

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