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I have freshly installed wpforo on my wordpress instance, on my local machine it works. but if i then move it to my server it only gives a 404. I have gone throught the 5 steps stated here: https://wpforo.com/community/faq/forums-dont-show-up-on-the-main-page/ but nothing works. Tried the debug information but it is also not helpful, who could help me with this?
Ps: I tried it without any other plugins and also with the default wordpress themes, there it also doesn't work.
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Hi @timon,
Please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Settings > General Tab and click on [Update Options] button.
Then navigate to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks admin page, make sure it's not set the ?p=1 one and click on the [Update Options] button.
Then navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Dashboard admin page and click on the [Delete all caches] button.
If problem is not fixed, please leave some URL.
Hi @martin,
Thanks for the quick reply, tried those steps again just to be sure, yesterday i also deleted my .htaccess file just to be sure (after changing the permalinks wp will generate it again). But nothing works, the forum is behind a login, how could we proceed with this?
There is no any info that could help you to understand your problem. Please open it or leave some test user login details.
Also, please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Tools > Debug > Errors & Issues Tab and let us know what you see. Check the Table tab too.
Hi @martin,
I mean could i leave some test user login details to you in a private message? It seems a bit insecure to leave it in a public forum. I checked the errors & issues, it has no error logs and it says no issues found. Tables are also fine.
It is on a test server for now without a domain name, the url is http://46.17.7.215/~blackcaps/forum Could this gives issues?
ok, i see the problem.
function wpforo_urlencode($str){
if( !preg_match('#^(\#post-\d+|https?:)$#isu', $str)
&& !preg_match('#([\?\&][^\?\&/=\r\n]*=?[^\?\&/=\r\n]*)(?1)*$#isu', $str)
&& $str === urldecode($str) )
$str = urlencode($str);
return $str;
}
function wpforo_urlencode($str){
if( !preg_match('#^(\#post-\d+|https?:)$#isu', $str)
&& !preg_match('#([\?\&][^\?\&/=\r\n]*=?[^\?\&/=\r\n]*)(?1)*$#isu', $str)
&& strpos($str, '~') === false
&& $str === urldecode($str) )
$str = urlencode($str);
return $str;
}
