XF 1.4 Is it possible to remove the /forums/ subfolder from URLs?

[WearableTechForums.com]

Is it possible to remove the /forums/ subfolder from URLs? My website is http://wearabletechforums.com and the /forums subfolder for URLs is a bit superfluous.

Thanks.

 

[AlexKim]

Move forums folder to root maybe? or use the route

 

[WearableTechForums.com]

They are. It's the URL rewriting that causes this.

 

[Paul B]

The /forums/ route can't be removed globally, but it can be changed.

The other options is to set up individual route filters for every forum URL.

 

[WearableTechForums.com]

Hm. What did I do wrong here?

 

[Mike]

Take out the "." part -- it's not valid in the first part of a URL.

 

[WearableTechForums.com]

I don't understand. The period is added by xenForo before the ID of the forum in the database. If I change "Replace With:" to "activity-trackers/" the URL will not be correct.

 

[Mike]

I don't really follow what you mean by the "URL will not be correct". Since you're changing the URL, you can change it to what you want (subject to constraints); leaving the number will provide literally no benefit once the URL is changed.

The constraint is that you can't have certain characters before the first "/" -- generally, you should stick to a-z, 0-9 and - .

 

[WearableTechForums.com]

Awesome. Thanks!