Serious Problem: Unable to change settings from Admin Pannel.

[DPrat]

Dear All,

I have installed SMF for my new upcoming forum. After that when I tried to change settings from Admin panel, it is redirecting to the homepage of the forum. But the URL is in this form--- [http://www(dot)<mywebsite>(dot)com/index.php?action=admin;area=featuresettings] but showing the homepage.

I have scanned the whole forum and even googled, but unable to find a satisfactory and helpful solution to this problem.

For Your Information,
I have installed the SMF forum script to a subdomain . My main domain contains a Wordpress blog.

Please help! Thank you.
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DPrat.

[kat]

Check with your host that they have "mod_security" disabled, coz it's... er... well, it's crap, to put it bluntly.

Whilst you're there, you may as well ask them to ensure that you have full CHOWN ownership of the files on your site, too, coz that's bound to crop-up, sometime.

[Kindred]

actually, K@... we're seeing this more and more...
(and, apparently people still haven't learned how to use search  -- 10 posts down, on the front page of posts... http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=505720.0)


Welcome to Simple Machines, DPrat...   However, a little poractive search on a user's part goes a long way.

Your problem is (almost certainly) that your wordpress .htaccess file is interfering with your SMF...

(and is your forum REALLY in a subdomain or is it just in a redirected subdirectory?)

[MrPhil]

Your problem is (almost certainly) that your wordpress .htaccess file is interfering with your SMF...

And I keep telling people to always install major applications/subsystems such as SMF or Wordpress in their own subdirectories, to avoid this very problem of conflicting .htaccess files, and I keep getting slapped down for it.

[kat]

Wordpress seems to be almost as bad as I imagine it to be...

I'll watch for that, in future. Ta, Kindy-windy!

[DPrat]

First of all I would like to thank you all for all your valuable responses.

@Kindred
I am a Digital Marketeer and believe in search more than anything. I did search on Goggle and also on SMF with different keywords and keyphrases related to this topic, but didnt find the result which you have mentioned. Can you please elaborate more on the .htaccess part, what exactly I should do if I need to keep the wordpress blog on the root and install a SMF forum on a subdomain? I regret to bother you all, but I have little knowledge about the development part, so asking this. The link you mentioned dont contain the steps to be undertaken to solve the problem.

[kat]

If I read it rightly, the .htaccess file, in the root of SMF, should be:

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RewriteBase /sub_folder_name

where "sub_folder_name" is the name of the directory that you have SMF installed in.

[MrPhil]

If you keep the Wordpress blog in the root /, you will have to figure out how to either
1) in SMF's .htaccess, undo any WP-specific changes made in /.htaccess, OR
2) modify /.htaccess to ensure that WP-specific operations are applied ONLY if the destination is WP

This is why I always tell people to install these applications their own subdirectories, and use a URL rewrite in /.htaccess to send the visitor to the application, if there's only one installed.

[DPrat]

Thank you all guys. I have installed Bullet Proof Security to my wordpress as plugin. I have removed it by keeping all default settings for the .htaccess . Now it is absolutely fine. Thanks again for giving all your valuable inputs and time.

I hope ,I may disturb you again if I get stuck  .

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Thanks and Regards
DPrat

[kat]