404 Error

Okay, I'm having a 404 error, I've tried everything I could find in the forums, from fixing the .htaccess to moving things around in the nav. No joy. The funny thing is is every page im having an issue with is in the /m/ directory, for example /m/avatar or /m/[username] but when I go into my files, there is no "m" directory to begin with, is this part of the issue perhaps and what happened?

mod_rewrite

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolTech

or you can disable permalinks
in  /administration/settings.php?cat=26

404 error normally indicates that the page that has been requested isnt there anymore. I recently had a similar problem and fixed this with copying the new htaccess into my root directory (from original backup) as the htaccess file had got corrupt. As for the m directory, thats actually your modules directory. Try checking your htaccess files and if you havent changed any of them, then install fresh ones from your dolphin archived file, making sure its the same version that you have online.

regards

Jim

prolaznik, tried that, but thanks :) slim007 I wanted to avoid that cause yesterday I did the .htaccess fix to speed up your site, but perhaps that caused the error, ill give it a go, thanks :)

No joy, but I believe I may of actually copied over my backup, any way to recover it?

Its not the copy of your backup you need. Its the ORIGINAL htaccess files you need to install. Im willing to bet if you copy the original htaccess files from (orignal archive) back onto your server all will be ok I normally keep a copy of all my versions as directories on a hd partion so dont have to worry about unarchiving and finding the original archive.

If you have made changes to them, copy them first to somewhere safe, then install original htaccess files and see what happens. you will still have the copies safe to go through to see where you made an error.

Regards

Jim

I just backed up my entire site earlier, including the .htaccess :/ problem is I wrote over the backup >.<" so now what?

Okay, found my backup backup :P but its about a week old, everything is working fine now except for forums, which I'm still getting a 404 for :/ should i uninstall and reinstall orca forums?

Hi,

Yes give that a try and see what happens.

regards

Jim

I tried, it wouldnt even delete the file, it just doesnt exist apparently... I tried updating the language files to see how that went, still no joy :/

what error are you getting? i assume your trying to uninstall the forum? its probably a sql error in the uninstall script. when you try to uninstall and it errors, then click on + sign and see what error it shows.

Regards

Jim

well i was able to uninstall and then reinstall, now I am getting this "Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INCdb.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ssdotcom/public_html/forum/integrations/base/config.php on line 21