1 Topic by DNAImagery (edited by DNAImagery 2009-08-20 17:26)

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Topic: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

What I would like to do is.  When you come to the forum the url that is in the address bar is http://forums.sbnightlife.com or even http://www.sbnightlife.com/forum would be acceptable.

I am running this on a linux server and currently it shows the entire root, so in the address bar it comes up as http://dnaimagery.com//sbnightlife/forum/index.php

I searched on the forums and what I tried is to go into config.php and change the base url, but that didn't work.  It just strips my forum of it's CSS and leaves it barebones minimum.

Anyone know how to make the change?  Help is appreciated as we are almost done & would love to show off the forum here once it is complete.

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

you will need to go on your webserver and set up a sub domain called forums. This would created a folder called "forums" in your root folder, you then put your files and content in there.

Its easier to change your base_url BEFORE you move across

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3 Reply by DNAImagery (edited by DNAImagery 2009-08-20 17:40)

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

I created the subdomain which is forums.sbnightlife.com and I pointed it to read from the folder sbnightlife/forum (Where all the files for punbb are)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa181/eosloung/Capture444.jpg

If you actually visit the forums.sbnightlife.com, you get a "server not found" message.

Right now, I have base url pointing to forums.sbnightlife.com

4 Reply by KeyDog (edited by KeyDog 2009-08-20 17:42)

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

Maybe with mod rewrite / .htaccess file.... ?
one example thereof:
http://shahidz.com/apache-url-rewriting/

Edit : another
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/apache … -examples/

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

I am not used to your set up so it would be best if you asked your service provider on how to fix this. It might take awhile to take action.

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

Utchin wrote:

I am not used to your set up so it would be best if you asked your service provider on how to fix this. It might take awhile to take action.

I'll give them a ring & see what I can come up with.  Thanks for responding.  I'll try mod rewrite if the godaddy (service provider) is unhelpful.

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_O6u6QM0l0

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Re: Help Appreciated | How do you change the forum's URL?

Thanks you guys.  It was actually a server-side problem and godaddy fixed it.  I knew I wasn't that slow...:rolleyes:

Base Url/Config.php works now.