Wordpress htacess interferring with phpbb installation in sub directory.

[god0fgod]

I have a wordpress installation with the .htaccess:

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

# END WordPress


In a subdirectory I have placed the files for phpbb3 but it wont work because when I try to install I get 404 - http://crytekuk.info/forums

How can I fix this? I tried RewriteEngine Off but only in the phpbb3 top directory. If I have to do them for every directory then that is a pain. There must be a better way to do this.

Thank you for any help.

[god0fgod]

Well I have solved the problem by using another directory for wordpress.

I installed wp-united and all was fine.

However, I simply tried to change the permalinks to the numerical type. It didn't work. I tried to revert the changes back to how it was working fine before. I changed the links to default and removed the .htaccess.

Why then am I now getting a 500 error?

http://crytekuk.info/

Any obvious reasons? It all seems stupid to me.

Thank you for any help given.