XF 2.0 Category in a category is error?

[Cannabis Ape]

Maybe this is not possible but I have a category and in that category I want several different categories but when I place a category into another category and I click it on the forum where it does show it brings me to the oops page.

I can't get it to work but then I see on this forum it must be possible some way because this seems to be showing what I am trying to achieve.

https://xenforo.com/community/categories/resolved-bug-reports.102/

 

[Cannabis Ape]

This is the setup. The back-end and the front-end.

If I direct click the subforum it will take me there, however when I click the "test category"it will me bring me to the error page.

 

[Chris D]

I've just visited your site. Have you added a route filter to change "forums" to "categories"? If so, that's the cause. You've essentially overwritten the "categories" route.

 

[Cannabis Ape]

I've just visited your site. Have you added a route filter to change "forums" to "categories"? If so, that's the cause. You've essentially overwritten the "categories" route.

That is correct because otherwise the route would be /forum/forums which contributes nothing to SEO.

So what you are saying is it's because the identical name?

 

[Chris D]

Yeah, you'd need to choose something other than "categories" and make sure it doesn't overlap with any existing URLs in XF otherwise you'll have problems.

To solve the "forum/forums" issue, you might want to consider having your forum in a different folder, like we do here. We use "community" so that our URLs are "community/forums".

 

[Cannabis Ape]

Yeah, you'd need to choose something other than "categories" and make sure it doesn't overlap with any existing URLs in XF otherwise you'll have problems.

To solve the "forum/forums" issue, you might want to consider having your forum in a different folder, like we do here. We use "community" so that our URLs are "community/forums".

That's what I had originally but my SEO guy didn't like that.

 

[imno007]

Well, tell him to suggest what he thinks would work best, as long as it's not "categories."

 

[Cannabis Ape]

Well, tell him to suggest what he thinks would work best, as long as it's not "categories."

I did and it was forum/categories

 

[imno007]

That's why I said as long as it's not categories. Obviously he'll have to go with another choice. Not sure why "categories" would be so much better anyway, seems like it would be about as generic and used almost as often as "forums". But heh, I'm no expert on the matter.

 

[Chris D]

From an SEO perspective it could be “signuptomyforumplskthx” and it’d be fine. A top level directory has little impact on SEO.

 

[Cannabis Ape]

Yeah, I replaced it with a KW relevant to the niche.

Anyway, thanks for clearing things up.