http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: symlink en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:22:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1422 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:44:51 +0000 ear1grey 1422@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The symlink would mean old URI's would still work, but any new URI's generated (on every new page) would point to the preferred address.</p> <p>I think it's maybe also worth adding this to <code>robots.txt</code> a:<br /> <code>User-agent: *<br /> Disallow: /your-old-folder</code></p> <p>So that any robots that discover one of the older URLs don't go indexing what they might consider as duplicate pages.</p> <p>Longer term you could also add a 301 redirect to htaccess to ensure any links to the old content have rank properly attributed to the new location... but this is probably getting <em>waaay</em> too complex if it's a new installation.</p> <p>Another alternative, of course, is to just rename the folder and change your <code>config.php</code> - it's more maverick than the symlink approach, but if your forum is new and has no fully qualified self referencing links contained within, then it's not much of a wrench to just move the whole kaboodle. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1418 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:56:56 +0000 ergate 1418@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Only gotchas I can see would be in the content of the posts, if there are links from one post to another post within the forum. They will break. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1416 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:18:00 +0000 ear1grey 1416@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I think the easiest (&#38; most stable) solution is to use a symlink such as <code>ln -s /path/to/bbpress newname</code> in the folder where you want the new forum to appear (probably at the top level of your server). </p> <p>Then, once that's running, open your <code>config.php</code> and change <code>$bb-&gt;path = &#39;/newname/&#39;;</code></p> <p>I think that's all, and you have the advantage of being able to get the symlink working before asking bbpress to use the new path when creating links.</p> <p>Anyone see any gotchas with that? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1408 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:51:30 +0000 worrypascanada 1408@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello again,</p> <p>How and where can I change my URL from <a href="http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/bbpress/</a> to <a href="http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/somethingnew/?" rel="nofollow">http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/somethingnew/?</a></p> <p>Thanks for replying. </p>