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Thanks for the prompt response.

I follow your logic in trying the tests you describe; however, the fly in the ointment is that I don't have a consistently reproducible problem.  That's why I was trying to get a handle on what factors might be relevant.  If I could make it break consistently, I could test it as you describe.

Barring that, I guess I can wait until it happens to break, then instead of doing my usual hail mary with the Update WP Integration button, I'll try switching themes and disabling plugins to see if I can isolate a factor that way.

I don't have enough background knowledge to guess at the source of the problem, but if I had to hazard a guess it would be that some change to a permalink on an individual post outside of the forum is affecting the way links to the forums are being handled.  My reason for thinking that is that when the problem has occurred it has been after I have made no changes within the forum but have made changes to posts outside the forum, including adding custom posts and changing individual post permalinks.

If I get the opportunity of the problem manifesting again, I'll try testing as you describe.  If you think of anything else please let me know.

Thanks.

Brad

Thanks for sticking with me on this. I chose Simple:Press not only for its feature set but also for its support model.  I'm happy on both counts.

1. My permalink settings are set to the third list item under Common Settings, that being "Month and name."  The example format shown is

.  All of the Common Settings other than "Default" include "index.php."

2. Correct, I have been successful in resolving the problem by doing nothing more than hitting the Update WP Integration button on the Integration – Page and Permalink settings.

As far as Zeus goes, I'm afraid I can't shed any light there.  It's what my hosting company uses and has used for years.  If there is a particular configuration setting that you want me to find out, let me know.

Thanks.

Brad

Progress!

I managed to reproduce the problem.  I went to my site's Wordpress Settings>Permalinks page WITHOUT clicking anything, then went to the SP Integration page, again WITHOUT clicking anything.  I then opened a new tab, went to a page from which I have a link to a forum.  I clicked the link and was sent not to the forum but to the corresponding unit page as described in my original post.

The current permalink on the SP Integration page is http://wilmington.crimeboard.o.....php/forum/.

I tried to access a different forum from a different link; same type of result.  I landed at a unit page instead of the forum for that unit.

This is my .htaccess from the root directory of this site:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

However, based on what I found at http://www.names.co.uk/support/new/528-zeus_rewrite_rules_user_guide.html I think these rules are not used because Zeus does not use mod_rewrite.  So far, the only place that I have seen a problem manifest is when I try to follow a link to a forum.

Two questions then:

1. Is there any other troubleshooting information I should gather before I try to resolve the problem for now by clicking the Update WP Integration button on the SP Integration – Page and Permalink settings?

2. Do you have any suggestions as to what I can do to prevent the forum links from breaking while I research rewrite rules for Zeus?

I'm starting to read up on implementing rewrite rules for Zeus.

Thanks.

Brad