Pretty URL Problem with Wordpress and Solution

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Howdy Guys,

First let me welcome myself, as I am new and this is my first post

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After researching on various Forum Software's, I finally choose Vanilla as the final destination. I Install Vanilla today, and while trying to enable pretty url, I face a 404 error...

I search the forum and almost read all thread and seems there was no solution, So I did alot of experiments and spend the whole day figuring it out

Luckily, the solution is working for me, I don't know whether it's permanent or not (I would love if some Guru chime in and give feedback) ...

What am I using?

Site Running: Wordpress Vanilla Forum: Sub Directory (/forum) cPanel Version 11.34.2 Apache version 2.2.23 PHP version 5.2.17 MySQL version 5.5.23-55 Operating system linux

File Edited for the Solution:

Forum/Conf/config.php
Forum/.htaccess

Let's first make the changes in .htaccess file:

The Default looks something like this:

# Original # If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified RewriteEngine On # Certain hosts may require the following line. # If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /. # (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum) # RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]

The Modified looks something like this:

# Modified # If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified RewriteEngine On # Certain hosts may require the following line. # If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /. # (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum) RewriteBase /forum RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]

Now, let's make the changes in config.php file:

The Default looks something like this:

//Garden

$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = FALSE;

The Modified looks something like this:

$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

Hope the solution works for you too.
Chao ..