 Help For Newbies And Old Forum Links That Give 404, And old forum links found with search engines |
 Apr 7 2008, 08:52 AM
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Update: May 12, 2008 - This has been fixed, see post #6 (no longer need to do below url editing)
Whenever clicking an older link to this forum, you must remember to "edit" the url and remove the 's' from the word "forums" A while back, I think December of '06', this forum moved to a new host. Forum links on this site and forum links from other referring sites, that were made before this move, have an 's' after the word forum in the url Maybe this should be pinned so new users can figure out why hundreds of older forum links don't work. Jon This post has been edited by Jon_J: May 12 2008, 07:31 AM |
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Apr 7 2008, 11:41 AM
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 Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
good idea! pinned.
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Apr 12 2008, 06:22 PM
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QUOTE(speculatrix @ Apr 7 2008, 12:41 PM)  good idea! pinned. Does an administrator have enough privileges to change the links in the posts site-wide? A little sed? Or would that go against forum etiquette? http://xkcd.com/208/ |
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Apr 12 2008, 11:42 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
you'd have hoped so, wouldn't you
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Apr 14 2008, 02:58 AM
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or even better, just add a redirect to the server config...
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May 11 2008, 07:18 PM
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 ~ Group: Admin Posts: 596 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Member No.: 1,667 |
Fixed.
I would've done a server-side thing, but I don't think we have access to that. I just did a quick PHP script that redirects you to the 'forum' section. Can someone test and confirm? |
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May 11 2008, 10:37 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 369 Joined: 6-September 04 From: Brisbane, Australia Member No.: 4,488 |
Seems to work perfectly for me. Thanks dz!
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May 12 2008, 07:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,837 Joined: 31-December 05 From: Illinois USA Member No.: 8,821 |
Works for me also.
 I updated my original post.Jon |
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