mod rewrite must be enabled if you ever want that .htaccess line to work

Ok, what do you mean by enabled? I thought you were asking if I had mod rewrite urls, which I do not.

mod_rewrite is an Apache module that must be enabled on your server in order to use rewrite rules like "ReWriteRule ...".


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current...d_rewrite.html

Yes, the apache module is enabled and active.

Alright I'll need to know a couple things.


1) What is the structure of your website. Is your forum in the root or in a subdirectory like www.xxx.com/forums/?


2) Did an .htaccess file already exist or are you creating it new now?

<a href="http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/forum/forum.php" target="_blank">http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/forum/forum.php</a>

I have an htaccess in the domain root, but not the forum directory, so I would be creating one.

Its important to note again. The htaccess in the domain root has redirects in it. The site used to be in the domain root, now its in the /forum/ directory, and those redirects are 301s to bring things from the old structure to the new.

I suspect that's the problem.

You are correct it is probably related to the root .htaccess redirects.

Try these two options (separately):

1) Try adding: "RewriteBase /forum" above the RewriteRule in your forum .htaccess

2. Try adding this above all your redirect rules in your website root: RewriteRule ^forum/((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Looks like #2 worked -- thank you!

Let me recommend one other thing. Renaming forum.php to index.php. Then change the setting in Forums Home: Options - Script Name for Forum Home Page to also reflect this change. This way you can just direct users to http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/forum/

Yeah, was thinking about that myself