Forum on site doesn't work

[Luthy]

My site was made with word press and all the pages work except for the forums section. http://avantgardels.co.cc/forums will not load. All the files appear to be in order for the directory. Did the recent maintenance change something? This is a MyBB forum btw.

 

[carl6969]

Have you made any recent changes to your .htaccess ?

 

[Zubair]

Please post the contents of your .htaccess file.

 

[Luthy]

I have not made any changes to the files. Everything was working fine before the maintenance. Here is the .htaccess file for the forums directory

Options -MultiViews +FollowSymlinks -Indexes

#
# If mod_security is enabled, attempt to disable it.
# - Note, this will work on the majority of hosts but on
#   MediaTemple, it is known to cause random Internal Server
#   errors. For MediaTemple, please remove the block below
#
<IfModule mod_security.c>
	# Turn off mod_security filtering.
	SecFilterEngine Off

	# The below probably isn't needed, but better safe than sorry.
	SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

#
# MyBB "search engine friendly" URL rewrites
# - Note, for these to work with MyBB please make sure you have
#   the setting enabled in the Admin CP and you have this file
#   named .htaccess
#
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?fid=$1 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+)-page-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?fid=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-page-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-lastpost\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=lastpost [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-nextnewest\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=nextnewest [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-nextoldest\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=nextoldest [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-newpost\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=newpost [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-post-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&pid=$2 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?pid=$1 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^announcement-([0-9]+)\.html$ announcements.php?aid=$1 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^user-([0-9]+)\.html$ member.php?action=profile&uid=$1 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?calendar=$1 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=yearview&calendar=$1&year=$2 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)-month-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?calendar=$1&year=$2&month=$3 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)-month-([0-9]+)-day-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=dayview&calendar=$1&year=$2&month=$3&day=$4 [L,QSA]
	RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-week-(n?[0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=weekview&calendar=$1&week=$2 [L,QSA]

	RewriteRule ^event-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=event&eid=$1 [L,QSA]

	<IfModule mod_env.c>
		SetEnv SEO_SUPPORT 1
	</IfModule>
</IfModule>

#
# If Apache is compiled with built in mod_deflade/GZIP support
# then GZIP Javascript, CSS, HTML and XML so they're sent to
# the client faster.
#
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript text/css text/html text/xml
</IfModule>

---------- Post added 06-22-2010 at 12:13 AM ---------- Previous post was 06-21-2010 at 08:09 PM ----------

What should I change in the file to get the forums running again?

 

[Livewire]

I don't see it in the .htaccess but the issue is you have a bad redirect:

Response


Checked link: http://avantgardels.co.cc/forums

Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently

Redirected to: http://avantgardels.co.cc/forums/

The issue is even with the trailing /, it redirects again and again and again. Do you have any redirects set up in cpanel, and if so what are they?

 

[Zubair]

Is there any .htaccess in public_html folder? If yes post it here.

 

[Luthy]

I checked cpanel for redirects and saw "There are no redirects configured for your account." I have no redirects set up and I'm the only one with access to the hosting account so I know nothing has been changed. Here is no .htaccess file in the public html directory.

---------- Post added at 12:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:58 AM ----------

Ok I checked error logs and got

[Tue Jun 22 13:03:39 2010] [error] [client 130.65.109.107] SoftException in Application.cpp:564: Directory "/home/luthy/public_html/forums" is writeable by group
[Tue Jun 22 13:02:52 2010] [error] [client 130.65.109.107] SoftException in Application.cpp:564: Directory "/home/luthy/public_html/forums" is writeable by group, referer: http://x10hosting.com/forums/free-hosting/125286-forum-site-doesnt-work.html
[Tue Jun 22 12:14:13 2010] [error] [client 66.249.67.248] SoftException in Application.cpp:564: Directory "/home/luthy/public_html/forums/archive" is writeable by group

Seems the file permissions were changed at some point, probably when my site was restored after the server move some weeks ago? Either way I changed it from 777 to 755 and everything seems to work on my end. Can someone confirm if it loads ok?

 

[dlukin]

Loads fine for me. No idea why it would have given you that 301 loop, but good to know a fix if someone else has that problem.