XF 2.0 Moving From Root to Subdirectory

[KensonPlays]

I plan on getting the new Xpress bridge plugin, and moving Xenforo to the /community/ directory. What would be the recommended way of doing this with minimal downtime? So that way I can move the Wordpress install from blog.kensonplays.com to the root?

 

[Martok]

See point 5 of the FAQ.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/post-180455

 

[KensonPlays]

See point 5 of the FAQ.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/post-180455

Thanks. Is it possible to have the forum on /community/ -- but keep the Media Gallery at /media/ without it being /community/media/ ?

 

[Martok]

Thanks. Is it possible to have the forum on /community/ -- but keep the Media Gallery at /media/ without it being /community/media/ ?

No. I guess a redirect could be set so that you could type yoursite.com/media/ to get to the gallery but when you arrive it would show yoursite.com/community/media/

Route filters only change the route portion of the URL.

https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/route-filters/

 

[KensonPlays]

What about through .htaccess? Can it be made to do something like that?

 

[Tealk]

You could try it with a symlink but I wouldn't trust it to run clean.

 

[KensonPlays]

You could try it with a symlink.

How would I do this? I am not too familiar with the htaccess stuff, and I only know very basic HTML.

 

[Tealk]

it has nothing to do with htaccess.
Its like a shortcut on desktop. Have a look here

 

[KensonPlays]

it has nothing to do with htaccess.
Its like a shortcut on desktop.

Like I just asked, how is this done? Through the site software, cpanel, what?

 

[Tealk]

i would have to know your system for that, i run my servers myself so i just do it via ssh

 

[KensonPlays]

i would have to know your system for that, i run my servers myself so i just do it via ssh

I run mine through just a regular web host. I do not have nearly enough activity to use a VPS.

 

[Tealk]

You can use WinSCP too:

 

[KensonPlays]

Okay so I followed the tutorial exactly as shown in the FAQ, @Martok -- But I can't access the site at all now. Neither can WordPress be accessed. It's completely broken. 500 Error on Wordpress (now on Root), and some PHP exception for /community/

 

[Optic]

@KensonPlays - XF and WordPress will each have their own .htaccess files to deal with friendly URLs, did you move them both to their new locations?

Also WordPress has its own process when moving locations:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_Directories_On_Your_Existing_Server

 

[KensonPlays]

@KensonPlays - XF and WordPress will each have their own .htaccess files to deal with friendly URLs, did you move them both to their new locations?

Also WordPress has its own process when moving locations:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_Directories_On_Your_Existing_Server

Which is exactly what I did. I followed the recommended steps from each softwares steps.

The .htaccess was lost for xenforo, it looks like. Just copy the one from a fresh install over for each software?

 

[Optic]

To restore .htaccess for XenForo you can rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/options/#friendly-url-web-server-requirements-and-setup

And this looks like the default .htaccess for WordPress you can try re-creating:
https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

You'll need to re-add any other customisations you may have had added in .htaccess before, but for now just focus on getting the two sites back up.

 

[KensonPlays]

Yea, I've restored both .htaccess, but still doing the same thing (I did wait like 15 min and then Ctrl+F5)

 

[Optic]

Something must have changed on your server configuration.

We can't even access static PHP files on your server, for example this URL on XenForo 2 should always work:
https://xenforo.com/community/css.php

On yours we still get a 500 error:
http://kensonplays.com/css.php
https://kensonplays.com/css.php

This leads me to believe you have a redirect or misconfiguration issue for your hosting account.

Are you or your host using any proxies on the server? Are you using loudflare? Do you have any other page rules, subdomains or redirects setup on that?

I would suggest raising a support ticket with your host..

 

[KensonPlays]

Something must have changed on your server configuration.

We can't even access static PHP files on your server, for example this URL on XenForo 2 should always work:
https://xenforo.com/community/css.php

On yours we still get a 500 error:
http://kensonplays.com/css.php
https://kensonplays.com/css.php

This leads me to believe you have a redirect or misconfiguration issue for your hosting account.

Are you or your host using any proxies on the server? Are you using loudflare? Do you have any other page rules, subdomains or redirects setup on that?

I would suggest raising a support ticket with your host..

I have one subdomain, link.kensonplays.com which I use kind of like a branded URL sharer.

I do not use Cloudflare. I do have Redis though.