New Vanilla installation not working correctly.

pher

Hi All, I've created a new Vanilla setup for a website I'm working on. and I'm having some issues with it. My issues are as follows: Occasionally the index.php file fails to load... though if I hit refresh it's in instantly. When I click on discussions, to goes back to the file folder that index.php is in rather than to index.php itself. When I click on a category, it fails to open the category with an error that goes back the the Vanillla folder on the server ie: it opens to the link as http://www.xxx.com/vanilla/?CategoryID=2 instead of http://www.xxx.com/vanilla/index.php/?CategoryID=2 xxx being the name of my domain (well not really :D ) Here's the copy of most of my settings.php file in the Conf directory and my .htaccess file in the root directory of the server. $Configuration['SETUP_TEST'] = '1'; $Configuration['APPLICATION_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/'; $Configuration['DATABASE_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/conf/database.php'; $Configuration['LIBRARY_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/library/'; $Configuration['EXTENSIONS_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/extensions/'; $Configuration['LANGUAGES_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/languages/'; $Configuration['THEME_PATH'] = 'E:/inetpub/wwwroot/vanilla/themes/vanilla/'; $Configuration['DEFAULT_STYLE'] = '/vanilla/themes/vanilla/styles/default/'; $Configuration['WEB_ROOT'] = '/vanilla/'; $Configuration['BASE_URL'] = 'http://www.xxx.com/vanilla/'; $Configuration['HTTP_METHOD'] = 'http'; $Configuration['FORWARD_VALIDATED_USER_URL'] = 'http://www.xxx.com/vanilla/index.php'; $Configuration['SUPPORT_EMAIL'] = xxx'; $Configuration['SUPPORT_NAME'] = 'pher'; $Configuration['APPLICATION_TITLE'] = 'xxx'; $Configuration['BANNER_TITLE'] = 'xxx'; $Configuration['COOKIE_DOMAIN'] = ''; $Configuration['COOKIE_PATH'] = '/vanilla/'; $Configuration['SETUP_COMPLETE'] = '1'; $Configuration['DATABASE_PASSWORD'] = ''; $Configuration['DATABASE_VERSION'] = '2'; $Configuration['LOG_ALL_IPS'] = '1'; $Configuration['ALLOW_NAME_CHANGE'] = '0'; $Configuration['DISCUSSION_TIME_THRESHOLD'] = '30'; $Configuration['LAST_UPDATE'] = '1247202448'; $Configuration['DEFAULT_PAGE_USE_RETURN'] = ''; $Configuration['USE_CATEGORIES'] = '1'; $Configuration['DEFAULT_PAGE'] = 'index.php'; the .htaccess file looks like the following: DirectoryIndex index.php Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.xxx.com/vanilla/index.php - not sure if this is worthwhile having. It's only 3 lines with a blank line as the first line. It's a copy of the .htaccess file from the appg directory with the following area removed <Limit GET POST PUT> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Limit> thanks for your help in advance. Pher.