What's the problem freeshares? The links are working fine.

I installed this hack and am getting a 404 error whever I click on a forum...

http://rcgroups.com/archive/

It looks like I'm not alone. Is this possibly due to some apache redirect?

Jim

So there will be no question about my configuration, I copied the "forum" file to "forum.php".

The following link works: http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/forum.php/17.html

But this does not: http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/forum/17.html

So I think there must be some setting that governs what kinds of files are processed by the php engine. Can anyone help me with this?

Jim

It's an .htaccess problem.

Did you upload the included .htaccess file to the directory? That is what forces the "forum" file into php mode. If you're running apache, should be no problems. If you have uploaded the .htaccess file and it's still not working, then try uploading the .htaccess file into your root directory (lowest directory you can go to) being careful not to overwrite any existing .htaccess file. You may just want to append it to the exisiting one.

Hmmm...it's probably something simple, but I'm stumped.

The .htaccess file is in the proper place. I've played with the permissions and ownership of the file but haven't had any luck.

Jim

I didnt have a problem, I was just posting it so that it might help some others.

It works great and thanks for sharing this hack. :p

I have the same problem.
The .htaccess file is in the directory and also in the root directory.
I'm running Apache 1.3.27

Ok, I figured it out.

The issue is that the directory has to have "AllowOverride" set for the archive directory. This needs to be done within the httpd.conf file.

Some people here are probably using virtual hosts and they tend to set up their servers so that users can override options in any directory. Apparently the default apache installation doesn't do this.

A couple of links I found helpful while researching this:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/stopping.html

This is a great hack!

Jim

What exactly is the Google dance? I saw the Goggle bot feel me out last night by looking only for the robots.txt and nothing else. Is this the "dance" before I get nailed and indexed by them? I sure hope so! Great Hack by the way!

I'm using w2k & IIS. My archives show top level only, but when clicking on one of the links, I get a 404 file not found error, which I would assume has to do with the files with no extensions not executing as php (limitation due to .htaccess not working).

Is there a work around for this on iis?

Thanks for any help.