I decided to protect my forum when I had someone join my forum through a random link. I went into my admin to protect the folder and got this message: File exists and contains non-aMember code unmodifiable by aMember. If you don't need this file, delete it and aMember will automatically create a new aMember compatible .htaccess file to replace it. Now I get a 404 error when I try to access my forum. Please help!
Sounds like amember wrote over a needed .htaccess file. Do you have the original forum files? Re-upload the original .htaccess again and you should get access. Then after writing the new amember htaccess file, copy the contents of the amember htaccess to the top (or bottom, need to test) of the forums .htaccess file and upload that. David