XF 1.4 Absolute URLs with xenforo

[musictomy]

I would like to use absolute links within some areas of forum, mainly say testing so that when I restore Forum configuration all links are correct.

is there a way of doing this please

 

[Paul B]

Which links are you referring to?

 

[musictomy]

Say
Help | XenForo Community
For example:
I would want that to go to my domain no matter what domain as below
/community/help/

 

[Paul B]

That already happens automatically.

It's not really clear what you're trying to do.

 

[musictomy]

/threads/absolute-urls-with-xenforo.103255/#post-971110

For example link above will not produce the main domain no matter what domain it's from

 

[Paul B]

If you are referring to links posted in threads, there is no mechanism for that.

You would have to update the post content using queries or this add-on: Post Content Find / Replace

 

[musictomy]

Thank you for clearing that up and helping.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I think your terminology may be back to front. An absolute link (URL) is fixed and depends on having the exact same domain name as the site. However a relative link would be one that does not include the domain name and would work irrespective of the domain name (provided that they are always from the same directory level)

So the absolute examplesite.com - This website is for sale! - example site Resources and Information. will always work provided the page /community/help/ is on examplesite.com - This website is for sale! - example site Resources and Information. - but if you change your forum URL you need to change examplesite.com - This website is for sale! - example site Resources and Information. to http://examplenewsite.com/

But the relative /community/help/ will allow you to change your forum URL and still work, but would not work if the link is in a deeper or higher subdirectory.

Seems you can't have it both ways.

The ideal would be if there was a way to use the server path

 

[Mr Lucky]

What's going on here, who put all that This website is for sale! stuff in there? I didn't write that!

 

[Paul B]

URL title conversion.

 

[Mr Lucky]

URL title conversion.

Why? What? How?

 

[Paul B]

XF 1.5 - Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements

 

[Mr Lucky]

XF 1.5 - Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements

I know about thread URLs being changed to the thread title, but I don't understand why the random "This website is for sale" text is added to what I wrote.

 

[Martok]

I know about thread URLs being changed to the thread title, but I don't understand why the random "This website is for sale" text is added to what I wrote.

The site exists and that's the title on the site. Click it and you will see.

 

[Mr Lucky]

The site exists and that's the title on the site. Click it and you will see.

OK, but I just want to show the URL, as an example, not the title of the site. If I'd wanted to do that i would have written it.

 

[Jeremy]

XenForo auto converts URLs now. Surrounding it by the PLAIN tag should work.

 

[Amaury]

Indeed it does: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/link-test.100183/page-2#post-971352

Just note, Mr. Lucky, that it will (obviously) be plain text.