Link url to section within forum

[MartyFeldman]

If this is posted in the wrong section please move it Admins/Mods.

This may not be a specific Xenforo question but......

If one has a url eg www.mydomain.com, is it possible to point that directly to one of the Nodes within Xenforo rather than to the home page/front page?

For example the main domain name of my forum currently points to the forum as a whole and visitors land on the home page but if I had another domain name that's specific to a section within my forum can I point that to the specific node? If so, can anyone share how please as I've struggled with it.

TIA

 

[Paul B]

Set the Index page route in the ACP to the node.

 

[MartyFeldman]

Set the Index page route in the ACP to the node.

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Thanks but what I'm trying to achieve is to have is two domain names, one points to the Front Page and thus is currently set as pages/front in the ACP index page route, the other I'd like to point to a specific node eg forums/node-name.xx

Each time I try to set the url, via my host, to look for the specific node I get a Xenforo error message appear within the normal page container along the lines of 'unexpected error'.

 

[Paul B]

XF doesn't care which domains route to which URLs - there's no reason why that wouldn't work.

What are both URLs?

 

[MartyFeldman]

XF doesn't care which domains route to which URLs - there's no reason why that wouldn't work.

What are both URLs?

www.ducati.community routes to the Front Page but I also want www.node-specific-domain-name.com to route direct to a Forum such as this

Sport Touring

www.ducati.community

 

[webbouk]

Isn't that something you would have to set within your domain routing in your hosting account?

ie forward the second domain to the specific forum directory/folder

 

[MartyFeldman]

Isn't that something you would have to set within your domain routing in your hosting account?

ie forward the second domain to the specific forum directory/folder

It is, yes, but depending how I set the routing I get either a Xenforo 'unexpected error' message or the Front Page of the forum loads; most likely because I have to put the full URL of the target as above and when the request gets into Xenforo it's looking for www.ducati.community within www.ducati.community and get's its knickers in a twist - to use a technical phrase. I've even tried numeric IP addresses as the target for the routing followed by the forum location but it doesn't like that either.

I was hoping someone else may have routed a domain name, other than the one which points to their forum, to a specific node within the forum and said 'ah you need to do ...'

 

[Paul B]

Where in the .htaccess file are you adding the rule?

Any custom rewrite rules must come before the XenForo rewrite rules.

 

[MartyFeldman]

Where in the .htaccess file are you adding the rule?

Any custom rewrite rules must come before the XenForo rewrite rules.

So I have to add a line or 2 into the .htaccess file?

Can anyone help with what that code might be please - or at least point me in the right direction? TIA

 

[webbouk]

Another way around it would be to create a one page (index.php) website for the domain name and put a 301 redirect in it to the node you want users to go to.

<?php
// Permanent 301 redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: https://www.yourdomain.com/node");
exit();
?>

 

[MartyFeldman]

Another way around it would be to create a one page (index.php) website for the domain name and put a 301 redirect in it to the node you want users to go to.

<?php
// Permanent 301 redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: https://www.yourdomain.com/node");
exit();
?>

Thank you I shall try that as well as play around within the .htaccess file