I'm trying to get my head around this (taken from the installation instructions):
Download the .htaccess file I have attached and place it in your forum's root folder. This will give you those wonderful links for the usernames. ex.
www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta
First off I'm ussing IIS on Windows Server 2003 so there's no .htaccess file - I use
ISAPI Rewrite.
What does the contents of the .htaccess file really do? I understand that it's supposed to be enable you to use nice URLS like
www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta - but how does the webserver tie up member.php?u=1 to
www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta? In other words how does it know that u=1 belongs to stangsta or vice versa?