XF 1.2 Route Filters : Changing /forums/ To /community breaks the threads list

[TheBigK]

I followed the Route Filters introduction available here - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/route-filters.47946/ .

What I want to do:

[XenForo is installed in the root of the site]
1. Have my homepage: www.crazyengineers.com as 'Home'. It's controlled by XenPorta. (Successful) . Changed the 'Index Page Route' to /portal.

2. Have My xenforo forum displayed on http://www.crazyengineers.com/community/ . I achieved this by creating a route filter as follows -
Find Route: /forums/
Replace With: /community/

Now, xenforo does appear in /community as expected. However, opening any forum shows error. That is all the URLs like:

http://www.crazyengineers.com/forums/computer-science-it-networking.42/
are changed to
http://www.crazyengineers.com/computer-science-it-networking.42/
(forums get stripped out from the URL).

Obviously, I'm not setting the route filter correctly. Can someone help me fix this?

 

[RobParker]

Just to be clear, have you disabled the route changing stuff in xenporta? You need to let XF handle all the route changes.

 

[TheBigK]

Just to be clear, have you disabled the route changing stuff in xenporta? You need to let XF handle all the route changes.

I think the latest version of xenPorta does not have route changing options. Moreover, the problem I see is clearly with the setup of Route Prefix in xenForo.

Maybe I need to tell XenForo that it should not strip out /forums/ from the URLs. But change it to /community/

 

[Paul B]

The XenForo route filter function does not remove routes, it only changes them.

 

[TheBigK]

The XenForo route filter function does not remove routes, it only changes them.

Just checked, the problem persists even with xenPorta disabled.

Find Route: /forums/
Replace With: /community/

Does that work with URLs like:
http://www.crazyengineers.com/forums/computer-science-it-networking.42/ ?

Because on my test board, it doesn't. I think I need add something more to 'Replace With': /community/ thing.

 

[Mike]

Take out the leading slashes.

Though I'm not sure why that's replacing with nothing...

 

[TheBigK]

Take out the leading slashes.

Though I'm not sure why that's replacing with nothing...

Still not working. It takes out "forums" and replaces it with nothing. As a result, I'm getting
The requested page could not be found error.

 

[TheBigK]

It it helps, I've set my Index Page Route To: portal/ . Home Page URL is blank.

 

[Mike]

If you want to submit a ticket with FTP and admin CP access details, I'll have a look.

 

[TheBigK]

If you want to submit a ticket with FTP and admin CP access details, I'll have a look.

On it right now.

 

[Mike]

This was caused by a .htaccess redirect - the route filters were correct and were generating the right URLs.