[Solved] Page not found error when deleting a discussion or comment

mvmsaikrishna

I recently installed the vanilla forum(latest one from download page,previously used phpbb3). But Iw ant to try out the so called best forum s/w of 2013.

I am having this terrible problem. Isn't there a fix for it yet? I see many others are having this problem.

Ps:
I am going a launch new community for a fb page with more than 170K likes. SO this vanilla forums better help me fix it!

vrijvlinder

ok , please tell us the numerical version you have installed.

Do you have rewrite urls true in your config.php ?

What does your htaccess file say ?

mvmsaikrishna

1) Vanilla Version = 2.0.18.10

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

3) htaccess=

# Redirect webmail.domain.tld to domain:2095 for cPanel Webmail only
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webmail\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/webmail/$1 [R=301,L]

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

UPDATE
If I change that to TRUE, categories are returning 404 error

vrijvlinder

the htaccess for the vanilla forum , that does not look like it ...

mvmsaikrishna

the htaccess file given by my hosting to redirect the webmail loging and non-www to www of domain.

I should mention that, my vanilla forum is in MYDOMAIN.COM/forums/

UnderDog

The .htaccess file you copy / pasted is not the Vanilla .htaccess file. In the /forums folder there's another .htaccess file and Vrijvlinder needs to see that file.
Go into your dashboard and see on which setting you set the 'HomePage' to. Was it 'Categories'? Or 'Mixed'? After you delete the discussion or comment, what does the Address Bar say? Which Url is in the Address Bar?

vrijvlinder

yes, Vanilla has it's own htaccess file look for it in MYDOMAIN.COM/forums/.htaccess

mvmsaikrishna

there is no .htaccess file in mydomain.com/forums/ (vanilla is installed here).

-->The homepage is set to only categories.

--> discussion url : http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/69/member-status#Item_8

--> after deleting a comment in this discussion, url = http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/forums/discussions

@UnderDog said:
The .htaccess file you copy / pasted is not the Vanilla .htaccess file. In the /forums folder there's another .htaccess file and Vrijvlinder needs to see that file.
Go into your dashboard and see on which setting you set the 'HomePage' to. Was it 'Categories'? Or 'Mixed'? After you delete the discussion or comment, what does the Address Bar say? Which Url is in the Address Bar?
@vrijvlinder said:
yes, Vanilla has it's own htaccess file look for it in MYDOMAIN.COM/forums/.htaccess
@vrijvlinder said:
yes, Vanilla has it's own htaccess file look for it in MYDOMAIN.COM/forums/.htaccess

vrijvlinder

ok please keep up, also read the tutorial about 404 error so you can see what the htaccess file for vanilla is supposed to look like.

The way I see it is you have rewrite url false and that may be the cause it should be TRUE, but that needs to be done along with editing the htaccess file for vanilla .

The htaccess file for vanilla needs to be inside the forum folder, that means the folder where vanilla is installed. If it is not, then add it.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25111/about-error-404-not-found#latest

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25552/tutorial-diagnose-page-not-found-404-errors#latest

mvmsaikrishna

Thanks a lot! The 404 error is gone by including a .htaccess file with the following code:

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   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 /thenameofmysubdirectory
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

link: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25111/about-error-404-not-found#latest

However, after deleting the comment, all discussions page is shown.
Won't it be possible to stay in that particular discussion thread only?

@vrijvlinder said:
ok please keep up, also read the tutorial about 404 error so you can see what the htaccess file for vanilla is supposed to look like.

The way I see it is you have rewrite url false and that may be the cause it should be TRUE, but that needs to be done along with editing the htaccess file for vanilla .

The htaccess file for vanilla needs to be inside the forum folder, that means the folder where vanilla is installed. If it is not, then add it.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25111/about-error-404-not-found#latest

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25552/tutorial-diagnose-page-not-found-404-errors#latest

mvmsaikrishna

hey its solved.
I changed the rewrite urls to TRUE, and now , after deleting the comment- the same discussion thread is loaded.

Moreover, now urls are clean without index.php ?=categories/discusions etc..

mvmsaikrishna

thank you @vrijvlinder @Underdog for quick replies to help me solve my problem.

vrijvlinder

you are very Welcome !

Shadowdare

@mvmsaikrishna said:
--> discussion url : http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/69/member-status#Item_8

--> after deleting a comment in this discussion, url = http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/forums/discussions

Notice that Vanilla redirects to the "clean URL" after deleting a discussion or comment even though the $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] setting was set to FALSE at that time. This might be a bug that you can report to the GitHub issues page.

mvmsaikrishna

@Shadowdare: oh sure then...i'm reporting now itself