HELP Categories and forums not showing up

[Auriel Kitsu]

La de Vie Surréelle, L3C
http://surreelle.com/

Not Found
The requested URL /forum-5.html was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I get different page numbers when I click on different forums but basically it's the same message on every category and forum I make. I know I must have screwed something up during configuration but I don't know what. I did turn on search engine friendly urls earlier but what would keep that from working?

Auriel

[LordOfSpoon]

Try checking your .htaccess file. If you can't see your .htaccess file in your cPanel or FTP Client be sure to show your hidden files.

[Auriel Kitsu]

Try checking your .htaccess file. If you can't see your .htaccess file in your cPanel or FTP Client be sure to show your hidden files.

I see the file but what am I looking for in the file?

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I forgot to rename the file .htaccess it was still htaccess.txt
Sorry for the Blond moment LordOfSpoon
Thank you for the help.

[LordOfSpoon]

Copy everything it, then cut all the text. Save it and see it if it works.

[Auriel Kitsu]

LordOfSpoon,

Thank you. Your original suggestion worked immediately. I forgot to rename the file .htaccess, it was still named htaccess.txt

Simply renamed it and everything worked great after that.

I changed this thread to SOLVED just so I wouldn't waste anybody's time further on this.

Once again thank you very much for your help.