oh... good. i just sent you a PM before reading this asking if it was still an issue.

btw, adding the trailing slash, while it fixed the Password Change and Forum Validation links in emails... sigh... I'm back to having two slashes in the Admin's validation New Member email. The link looks like this:
http://mydomain.com/forum//Blah.pl?v=admin,a=validate

With mod_rewrite ON, I'm guessing it probably shouldn't be adding the Blah.pl in these links either.

maybe this might be a hint to the problem... hoping.

Save your Directory settings after you make the changes.  Also make sure you make the changes CORRECTLY to Blah.pl.

Justin, you have access to my blahdocs.com ftp.  Can you take a look at it and let me know what I have done wrong.  If I take the / off the end of the forum address, then the news on the main page doesn't work.

Quoted from sundance

.htaccess looks like this:

Code Options All Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /forum RewriteRule ^(.*) /cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl?$1

And the lines in Blah.pl looks like this:

Code $scriptname = '/forum/'; $modrewrite = ''; # mod_rewrite: on = '' | off = '?'

And the setting for the Global url looks like this:

Code $realurl = "http://mydomain.com/forum";

My observations with these settings are:

• News - /forum/forum inside the thread topic, Read Comments, Click here to read more links... but the links work. All other links on the portal page are fine.
  
• Change Password email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• Forum Validation email -  /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• PM notification email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• New Reply notification email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• New Member email - /forum/Blah.pl and /forum/Blah.pl?v=admin,a=validate inside the links... but the links work.

Is it supposed to look this way? And why is it only showing /forum/forum on selected links instead of all links?

Let me have your FTP info and I'll fix it for you.

Ok, I finally got it.  Here it is, and I think this has already been said in the other post, but it just hit me like a brick!

Edit Blah.pl and change the $scriptnae and $modrewrite to this:

Code $scriptname = '/forum/'; $modrewrite = ''; # mod_rewrite: on = '' | off = '?'

Now create a folder on your server at your root called forum and put an .htaccess file in it.  The contents of this .htaccess file should be this:

Code Options All Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /forum RewriteRule ^(.*) /cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl?$1

This is assuming that your forum is installed in a folder under your cgi-bin folder called bb.  If your forum is installed in a different directory then change that setting to the approiate name.

Now edit your Forum Address (URL): via your admin center or by editing your Settings.pl file and change the address to your forum to this:
http://www.yoursite.com
Note: use your read site address instead of yoursite.  Also note that you should not put a / at the end.

That should work on any UNIX box that allows you to use mod-rewrite.

fantastic! that worked! Thank you.

Whoo-hoo!!

i couldn't figure out where that extra /forum was from.

THanks Much!

that fixed everything!!!!!  If i could up your rep i would... but i already did some time ago  

thanks craig for going over that again.  i know it's basically the same thing that Justin posted, but the location of the forum directory threw me off.  I thought I was suppose to put it inside my cgi-bin directory.

but something has happened that's strange since this rewrite deal.

when i first load the forum the first time either typing the url or clicking on the link from my main site, I get an error in IE in the bottom left that when clicked on says:

Line: 167
Char: 4
Error: 'swdith' is undefined
Code: 0
URL:  (lists my main url)


when i click on a topic and additional postings the error goes away, until I go back to home (home on the forum).

FF doens't show any errors.

i don't remember seeing this before making the modrerite changes

Just upgraded from version 9.2 and the Password Change and Forum Validation links in emails were missing a forward slash. So they would not work.

Code In QuickCore.pl sub CheckCookies the line (v9.2): $rurl = "$realurl/$scriptname?"; has been changed to (v9.6): $rurl = "$realurl$scriptname"; if($modrewrite eq '?') { $rurl .= $modrewrite; } added back in the forward slash and all is well now: $rurl = "$realurl/$scriptname"; if($modrewrite eq '?') { $rurl .= $modrewrite; }

Is this a bug for those not using the mod_rewrite, or should I fix it another way?

Actually, it was a problem with the first post (which I just edited).

Change the following in Blah.pl:

Code $scriptname = ''; $modrewrite = '/forum/'; # mod_rewrite: on = '' | off = '?'

To:

Code $scriptname = '/forum/'; $modrewrite = ''; # mod_rewrite: on = '' | off = '?'

Then go to Admin/Settings and click "Save" (view all settings).  This SHOULD fix your problem.  It's undocumented stuff, really.  I should document more, but I'm bad at it.  Craig does a pretty good job at keeping things up to date, but there's a lot of stuff I add that I think he doesn't see right away.  

That looks correct, but it does not fix the bug that exists if you are NOT using mod_rewrite. If you fix the bug, well, then your code above will not work again. Read my post again, you will see what i mean. I think you will want to fix it.

Oh, you didn't enable mod_rewrite?  Then just go and save your settings.  It adds an extra slash for you when you save it (thus fixing your little problem).  

Hey it says it right on that screen too...
"If the mod_rewrite modification is turned OFF, you should add a trailing slash here."

Must have missed that. All the settings were right so I never hit save when I upgraded.

Thanks very much Justin. I really like the code it was so easy to mod and get exactly what I wanted for a custom portal on my site.

I'm still struggling with this thing.  mod_rewrite works on my site.  I tested with a simple redirect from one directory to another.  But when I follow the instructions above I get errors.