setting forums root to 'index' causes 404 error in 2.6 beta-2

[Robin W]

I just happened to have my forums root slug set to 'index' when I tried 2.6 beta, and this causes a 404 error.

Anything else seems to work, and not an issue for me, this was set to this as a bbpress user had this setting some time ago, and I'd not reset it.

[johnjamesjacoby]

I can't remember the last time the code around this setting was changed, so this will need some digging.

Maybe the rewrite rules didn't get flushed; hopefully it's that easy.

[netweb]

I'm not able to reproduce using index as the forums slug _bbp_root_slug

​http://src.wordpress-develop.dev/index/
​http://src.wordpress-develop.dev/index/forum/test-forum/
​http://src.wordpress-develop.dev/index/topic/test-topic/

@robin-w Can you try flushing the permalinks without changing any settings and see if that resolves the issue, if not could you drop a copy of what your _bbp_* option values from your wp_options database table and I'll try to reproduce the issue using your same settings.

[Robin W]

yes, resetting permalinks fixed - thanks guys !

[netweb]

Replying to Robin W:

yes, resetting permalinks fixed - thanks guys !

Awesome, thanks @robin-w

Note: Reopening the ticket so as to change the resolution from "fixed" to "worksforme", see ​#meta2508