Joseph, start here:  http://wiki.simple-press.com/installation/troubleshooting/the-dreaded-404/

and see if you can get around it… come on back if no luck…  might be simple reset of permalink…

any caching? redirection? seo (ie Yoast)?

Mr Papa

I will start there and follow up after I have reviewed it carefully

I am keeping the install simple till it is all configured.    No-Redirection  No-Yoast  

   Caching –   In the  WP-Config  file   I have:      define(‘WP_CACHE’, true);

Thanks

Joe Johnson

I did the following as recommended & no luck.    Also Any thoughts on  -2-   from original post ?    Thanks in advance

Forum –  Page Not Found

• The WordPress Rewrite Rules Need Flushing   –    DID NOT FIX
• Have You Had A Different Forum Installed Before?    –  NO
• Check Your Forum Page Slug   –  CHECKED
•  Does the Forum Page Exist    –  YES
• No redirection plugin

 .htaccess    File Below

# 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

So – just made a visit and I see it is getting there and not 404’ing now. What was the issue?

Do you have your forum permalink set up correctly on the admin Integration > Page and Permalink panel? This is assuming you have set the ‘forum’ page to be a sub-page of ‘resources’ which does need to bet set correctly.

Yellow  Swordfish

Thanks for responding.  Yes it is set correctly.  Also any thoughts on the  Viewing permissions.    When I am logged into wordpress I can see the listed Group/Forum  but fro another  browser “Guest”  they are not visible.   I can give you local computer control is you would like to get on my system.  Use Citrix.   Current Time:  9:21 am EST

Update Forum Permalink

Current permalink:

Good Afternoon

I tried all recommendations.

I am a fairly strong wordpress user and the Theme I am using is solid and with excellent documentation and code notes.   I am perplexed because this is a simple plugin setup.

I really like the framework of your forum and want to recommend a bundle to my nonprofit clients:  MySiteMyWay.com / Simple-Prees / WishList.    In my search and research yours is highly mentioned.

I am anxious to use your Simple:Press forum and look forward to getting some simple issue correctd.   Is there any info that I could look at in particular to the Theme that may be causing this.  Although the Theme being used is a uniquely good one and well coded.    www.mysitemyway.com   Dejavu     Does JQuery impact in any manner ?

>>——-Forum Redirect————-
I tried also creating the Forum page manually and it redirects to it but the Forum framework does not show.

>>——– Permissions and Viewing——–
In the original post I articulated that I set the Guest to the below so that I could ascertain if a normal viewer could see the Group/Forum is they were not logged in.   And even with those more open guest settings, the Group/Forum does not show.  Thoughts on this ?
—–Permission Setting——
Can view a forum
Can view a list of forums only
Can view a list of forums and list of topics only
Can view posts by an administrator
Can start new topics in a forum
Can reply to existing topics in a forum
Can edit own topic titles
—-Screen Messages——-
– The requested group does not exist or you do not have permission to view it
– Unread and recently updated topics
– There were no topics found

>>——–Other Attempts———–
I did uninstall & reinstall.   No affect.   I did get on the 2nd reinstall a Header File Message but I FTP’ed the plug-in instead of using the wordpress upload.   Loaded fine.

Thank you
Joe Johnson
jjohnson@n-ppi.com

PS  I can provide you a secure citrix connection if you would like to connect quickly and see what I am experiencing.   I am working this afternoon if that would work.

Joe JOhnson

so right now, we do not see the issue… sounds like that might be because we cannot view past the main forum page on your site…

so as to permissions, if you are having redirection issues, probably better to solve it first…

so you have caching set true in wp config?  are you running a caching plugin?  if so, you cannot cache the forum page as its dynamically generated…  so if running a caching plugin, need to tell it to ignore and not cache the forum page…

real quick on permissions…  sounds like you have configured the permissions… have you actually assigned a permission and usergroup to each forum?

whoops…  codex on permissions and accesses:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/

but if you want to shoot us (yellow swordfish and myself) a temp account (with wp and sp admin caps) via pm, we can take a look…

–Plugins—-
No to Cashing Plugins. Plug-ins listed below
-Akismet
-Dynamic Headers by Nicasio Design
-Google Analytics for WordPress
– Google XML Sitemaps Google XML Sitemaps
-JW Player Plugin for WordPress
-Media Tags
-Simple:Press
-WishList Member

Will send you PM – access

Have set Guest Permission as noted in Post

Please give me 3 minutes to PM

okay,think the existing forum directory is it (or something else using slug of forum)… was able to get it working by changing the slug of the current page to forums vs forum and its working…

Its now also working for guests viewing the forum…  all of your settings for memberships on forum – options – content settings were invalid, so I put some valid ones in there… check and make sure its what you want…

also, I dont think your permissions were correct… regarding the use of

can view forum

can view forum lists only

can view forum and topic lists

you only want to pick one of those…  in all permission sets you had all three selected…  1st lets you see the entire forum including posts… 2nd lets you see the group and forum name but not the topics or posts…  3rd lets you see the group, forum and topic name, but not the posts…

so the 2nd and 3rd are really sneak peek type views of the forum…

take a look and see if anything more needed… I would check all your forum permissions for what you want…

Mr Papa

I validated the corrections and all is in order so now I can proceed forward.  Thank you for your attention and detail.  This is what makes a great product, a great service and a great community.

Sincerely,

Joe Johnson

np. thanks for the kind words! glad to help!

good luck in building your site! hope Simple Press helps it grow!