Url's not quite correct

[spondishy]

Hi,

I've just installed a test forum at http://www.mydomain.com/forums

Unfortunately sub forum url's are coming out as:

http://www.mydomain.com/forums/forums/my-sub-forum

So they are doubling up "forums" for some reason. The rewrites are working and clicking the link goes to the correct place, but I want to get rid of the extra "forums"... Any ideas?

Ta in advance.

 

[RobParker]

The first "forums" is the directory you placed XF in, the second "forums" is the content type. Placing XF in your root directory would solve it.

 

[spondishy]

Thanks for the response. I have a wordpress blog at the root, so don't want the forum installed in the root.

 

[melbo]

I wouldn't worry about it as it's only seen when actually looking at the subforums url, all threads are always www.domain.com/threads/your-awesome-content.99

 

[RobParker]

You can change the route from "forums" to something else using this Addon http://xenforo.com/community/resources/route-changer.447/

Alternatively you can change the directory. For example on here the folder is called community so you get community/forums, but in your case as the folder is called forums you get forums/forums.

 

[spondishy]

You can change the route from "forums" to something else using this Addon http://xenforo.com/community/resources/route-changer.447/

Alternatively you can change the directory. For example on here the folder is called community so you get community/forums, but in your case as the folder is called forums you get forums/forums.

Yeah, it may be best to change it to community as forums/forums just looks wrong from a user perspective. Shame really, seems an un-necessary extra sub-folder in the url.

 

[RobParker]

Its not really a subfolder but a "route" which you can change using Jake's addon.

 

[melbo]

/forums/ /threads/ /pages/ you can see where this is going... much more than just forums: /blogs/ /images/ etc.
If you're only running /forums then it does read a little odd.