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New Forum Looks

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:52 am
by Mizriath
Darn, I keep getting ... URL not in existence. I got to find another way in and found this instead. Great new looks although I am still feeling my way round it.

HAPPY Father's Day to all the guys with kids.

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:36 am
by Spec8472
Mizriath wrote:Darn, I keep getting ... URL not in existence. I got to find another way in and found this instead.
I've fixed the URL on the sennadar.com site - for some reason, no matter what I do, I can't get a .htaccess rule to redirect "http://sennadar.com/forum", however it will redirect "http://sennadar.com/forum/" (note the slash)

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:22 am
by Mizriath
:D Hi Spec,

No prob, just highlighting the problem. I am a dumbo when it comes to such problem meself. HAd to call administrator. :lol:

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:04 pm
by Quindo Ma
Spec, if all else fails, try to create a FILE (not a directory) with the name "forum" and put in a redirection code there. Not the cleanest solution, but it should be failsafe.

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:48 am
by Spec8472
Quindo Ma wrote:Spec, if all else fails, try to create a FILE (not a directory) with the name "forum" and put in a redirection code there. Not the cleanest solution, but it should be failsafe.
That doesn't work - because there is a directory which has the .htaccess doing the main redirects, and (atleast, via FTP) it won't let me create a file with the same name as the directory.

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:51 am
by dstar
Spec8472 wrote:
Quindo Ma wrote:Spec, if all else fails, try to create a FILE (not a directory) with the name "forum" and put in a redirection code there. Not the cleanest solution, but it should be failsafe.
That doesn't work - because there is a directory which has the .htaccess doing the main redirects, and (atleast, via FTP) it won't let me create a file with the same name as the directory.
Rename the forum directory. Then you can create the file with the redirect.

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:55 am
by Spec8472
Spec8472 wrote:
Quindo Ma wrote:Spec, if all else fails, try to create a FILE (not a directory) with the name "forum" and put in a redirection code there. Not the cleanest solution, but it should be failsafe.
That doesn't work - because there is a directory which has the .htaccess doing the main redirects, and (atleast, via FTP) it won't let me create a file with the same name as the directory.
See what's happening at the moment with "/forum"? its appending the path of the actual directory - "/home/sennadar_domain/sennadar.plebian.net/forum", and sending them on to forums.sennadar.com.

Which isn't exactly what I wanted.

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:57 am
by Spec8472
dstar wrote:
Spec8472 wrote:
Quindo Ma wrote:Spec, if all else fails, try to create a FILE (not a directory) with the name "forum" and put in a redirection code there. Not the cleanest solution, but it should be failsafe.
That doesn't work - because there is a directory which has the .htaccess doing the main redirects, and (atleast, via FTP) it won't let me create a file with the same name as the directory.
Rename the forum directory. Then you can create the file with the redirect.
And then my other redirection (for links to http://sennadar.com/forum/etcetc") wont exist... so, no...

Re: New Forum Looks

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:36 am
by dstar
Spec8472 wrote:
dstar wrote:
Spec8472 wrote:
That doesn't work - because there is a directory which has the .htaccess doing the main redirects, and (atleast, via FTP) it won't let me create a file with the same name as the directory.
Rename the forum directory. Then you can create the file with the redirect.
And then my other redirection (for links to http://sennadar.com/forum/etcetc") wont exist... so, no...
Can you give me the rule you're using to redirect in the .htaccess file? It should be possible to move that up a level, but I'd have to see how you're doing it to say.