XF 1.5 Route filter?

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Okay, a little confused on the route filter deal but here is my situation.

Currently my VB3.8 site sits at
http://example.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1234

I would like to simply re-name the old "forums" directory to lets say "oldforums"

My current XF1.5 forum ready to go live is in a directory called "community" like below.
http://example.com/community/forums/threads/example.1/

I thought I could then simply rename the XF directory from "community" to "forums" and I would be good to go but noticed I would then have http://example.com/forums/forums/threads/example.1/ which I would not want.

What is the best way to proceed so I end up with "http://example.com/forums/threads/example.1/" and not an extra "forums" in there?

 

[Chris D]

Rename your VB forums directory to oldforums.
Move the forums directory inside community up one level.

You don't need route filters for this.

 

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I'm a little confused... I don't have a forums directory inside the community directory, the XF-forum is located at "http://example.com/community".
Are you saying to re-name the "community" directory to forums and then move it to the root directory?

 

[Chris D]

If you have a URL like this:
http://example.com/community/forums/threads/example.1/

Then that suggests you have installed XF in the community/forums directory.

If you have installed XF in the community directory, a threads URL would look like:
http://example.com/community/threads/example.1/

Again in the community directory, the URL for a specific forum would look like:
http://example.com/community/forums/forum.1/

 

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Hmmm, the only directory's that I have in the "community" directory are:
community/data
community/install
community/internal_data
community/js
community/library
community/styles

There is no "forums" directory inside of the "community" directory.

 

[Chris D]

Then is your example in your original post wrong? What does a threads URL look like?

 

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Okay, maybe that's where my confusion is... Anyway I just renamed the old VB forums to get that out of the way and renamed "community" to "forums" so it's live now.

Main site is at example.com/forums
If I click on the first node I get http://example.com/forums/forums/introductions-greetings.2/

Then click on the first post I get http://example.com/forums/threads/bla-bla-bla.6745/

 

[Paul B]

As Chris said, move the installation to the root to get rid of the /forums/.

 

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So there isn't any way to keep the forums at "example.com/forums" AND get rid of the other /forums/?

 

[Paul B]

No.

Why do you want to keep it in that directory if you then want to remove it from the URL?

 

[Chris D]

You could rename the second forums with something else using route filters. Though you can't get rid of it completely - otherwise how would you access an actual forum list URL?

 

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No.

Why do you want to keep it in that directory if you then want to remove it from the URL?

The URL simply looks cleaner without the extra forums and I have other stuff at the root level so it keeps that area un-cluttered. Plus VB3.8 didn't have the extra forums.

 

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You could rename the second forums with something else using route filters. Though you can't get rid of it completely - otherwise how would you access an actual forum list URL?

I might rename the 2nd forums to my main keyword or something... if I did that would it mess up the redirect script etc. that I need to run still?

 

[Chris D]

In VB it would have been something like /forums/showforum.php

You could use route filters to change forums to showforum if that seems more acceptable.

 

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In VB it would have been something like /forums/showforum.php

You could use route filters to change forums to showforum if that seems more acceptable.

Okay, thanks guys... I may slap my main keyword in there instead.