[MeisterYoda]

well, i started testing buddypress on my localhost (XAMP) and everything works great. Then i made an installation on my VServer and now i have problems with .htaccess.

If i delete .htaccess the site comes up, but every link is 404.
If i change Permalinkstructure and create a .htaccess i get an 403

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Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 PHP/5.2.0-8+etch16 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Server at http://www.mydomain.com Port 80

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anybody an idea how to fix it?
thanks in advance
Peter

[Bowe]

Create a new file in your root folder called .htaccess and put the following code in it (assuming you’re using a single WP install, not MultiSite)

`
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

`

Save the file and make sure it can be read by the server (chmod 644 I think). That should do the track if you have set up your permalinks properly (/category/postname in my case)

[MeisterYoda]

thank you Bowe.
but it didn’t fix my Problem. Only an empty .htaccess works without a permission-error. Well, is it possible to change the linkstructure for buddypress? for example index.php/activity/ instead of /activity/ ?

[MeisterYoda]

sorry… i forgot.
The error also exists in case i deactivate buddypress und change to wp default theme.

[MeisterYoda]

ok, i hope it solved my problem permanently…
I check in confixx my domain settings… mod_rewite was checked, but in my web.1.conf it wasn’t loaded, so i put the line:
`LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so` at the end of the document and restarted apache. Now it works…

During restart i get the warning, that mod_rewrite can’t loaded twice… but, OK, it works…