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I have just purchased EE 2.2.2 and Discussion Forum 3.1.5.  All has been installed correctly and I have created a Board, Forum and a few categories in the Control Panel.  However, when I go to http://domain.com/indexNEW.php/forums/ all I am seeing is the default template from http://domain.com/indexNEW.php.  I have checked and see no htaccess file on the site.  I can;t figure out why the forum URL is not working?  Please help as I am trying to launch this today for a client.  I would be happy to show someone what is happening as well through a GoToMeeting session if that helps.

Thanks, Bryan

I just found the issue I think but am wondering if you have any suggestions.  I found out the client was hosting at GoDaddy and the path_info issue was the cause.  So I followed the steps at http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/130554/.  All works other than the VIEW option in the Template view of control panel.  When I try to view a template I get a URL like http://domain.com/indexNEW.php?URL=http://domain.com/indexNEW.php?/pages and it gives me the “The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.”.  Is there a fix for this? 

Also, is there any other way to make the URLs look a bit better than http://domain.com/indexNEW.php?/forums/.  The “?” look pretty ugly in there.

I used this htaccess file and it seems to do the trick:

# BEGIN ExpressionEngine Rewrite
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /indexNEW.php?$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# END ExpressionEngine Rewrite

Good stuff 😊 Is there anything else we can help you with or is it ok for us to close the thread?

You can close it John.  Thanks.

No problems. Feel free as always to start a new thread if you have any more questions