Invalid Forum specified Error on single forum..

[nando99]

My site is Fat Boy Magazine - Men's Entertainment: Hot Girls, Funny Videos, Movies, MMA and more. and when I click on Announcements (sub forum under general discussions) I get the following error:

Invalid Announcement specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

I've checked other forums/subforums but the announcement forum seems to be the only forum that does it...

I searched the forums and saw something about the .htaccess but i'm pretty sure I got that covered - let me know if I'm wrong...

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.fatboymag\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.fatboymag.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap/)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images|vbseo_sitemap)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

thanks in advance...

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Hello ,

It is probably conflicting with Announcement rewrite rules. You may want to change your Announcement rewrite rules to solve the issue.

[Shadab]

On a side note; you may want to ban your latest registered member (if not already done so)

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[nando99]

Hello ,

It is probably conflicting with Announcement rewrite rules. You may want to change your Announcement rewrite rules to solve the issue.

How/what exactly would I need to do? I'm not really sure...

thanks in advance...

On a side note; you may want to ban your latest registered member (if not already done so)

A known spammer / bot.

I figured it was something like that... thanks

[Mert Gökçeimam]

In vBSEO Cp please look for Url Rewrites. Within Forum Urls you'll see Advanced Settings ( +/- ) Click on + to expand settings and look for Announcement rewrites

[nando99]

Got it - fixed - thanks!

[Mert Gökçeimam]

You're welcome