Stuck on Forum Home......Dummy Needs Help Please

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Originally Posted by Lynne

Are you sure you didn't touch any of your files also? It's like there is a redirect in place that no matter what you put as the URL (the page source has the correct URLs), you get redirected to the forum page.

Nope, didn't touch any files. I wouldn't know how to.

Only changed the settings in Settings/Navigation Manager. Making Forum the default, instead of What's New.

--------------- Added [DATE]1349079008[/DATE] at [TIME]1349079008[/TIME] ---------------

This is the htaccess file........

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /forum/

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

#--------------------------
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
#--------------------------


Double Dutch to me. Does it look OK?

P.S. Seems to be two copies of this file. One in the root and one in the forums folder.