Hi folks...

I just bought GForum today ... bought it specifically because I own Gmail and Glinks and love them. Gforum looks promising but the one feature I need the most isn't working - search engine friendly URL's.

Dug into the docs and nothing is covered that I could find so started through the friendly forums here - have tried every possible .htaccess I can find and still no luck....

I get a 404 not found no matter what I try and I know it's rules related in the htaccess I"m sure. (mod_rewrite is working on this server for other sites just fine).

Here's the last .htaccess I'm trying to make work (from other forum postings):

RewriteRule ^/$ /gforum.cgi?t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*P([0-9]+)/?$ /gforum.cgi?post=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*P([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ /gforum.cgi?post=$1&page=$2&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*C([0-9]+)/?$ /gforum.cgi?category=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*F([0-9]+)/?$ /gforum.cgi?forum=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*F([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ /gforum.cgi?forum=$1&page=$2&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/?$ /gforum.cgi?t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*gforum.cgi /gforum.cgi?%{QUERY_STRING} [R,NE,L]
RewriteRule ^/gforum.cgi /gforum.cgi?%{QUERY_STRING} [R,NE,L]


I can load http://website.com/gforum.cgi and then I get links like this:

http://site.com/...ing_C1/Cisco-NSP_F1/ which in turn generate 404 errors. I turned on debugging in modrewrite and it shows it working but I don't know enough about the rules to know that's wrong....

Help! ;) I've been working on this all day and frustrated....

Thanks folks,

Paul