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Odd sub-domain + bbPress problem

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    (I'll shorten the domain name, etc., for readability)

    I had a forum set up on a sub-domain http://abc.dom.com/bb-login.php which worked fine. The bbPress files were in my server space at public_html/ABC.

    I wanted to change the sub-domain name, but not trash and re-upload the bbPress installation. So, I just changed the bbPress files folder to XYZ, and the sub-domain which points to it to http://xyz.dom.com. When I browse to that address, the log-in page shows, but when I log-in it jumps to http://abc.dom.com/bb-login.php, and just keeps doing the same on logging-in from there.

    It's obviously not having a problem finding the bbPress files via the new sub-domain name and content folder, but I can't find out why it keeps trying for the old sub-domain name. There doesn't seem to be a link to it in any obvious file. Stumped.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    My login.php form posts to the following url:

    <form method="post" action="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>bb-login.php">

    Did you change your bbPress Address here?
    http://xyz.dom.com/bb-admin/options-general.php

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Just tried that, but it jumps to http://abc.dom.com and shows a cPanel page with;

    Great Success !
    Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server

    ???

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    What is your bbPress Address set to now?

    And do you mind posting a link to your forum, to help with troubleshooting?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    No worries. It was talkspirit.letsdoo.org but I didn't like it much, so it's now http://talkzen.letsdoo.org
    I've checked the sub-domain, which is pointing to talkzen, and the old talkspirit one is deleted via cPanel. That was all done perhaps 4 or 5 hours ago, so shouldn't be a server filter-through issue.

    Thanks for taking the time.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Your database is still storing variables pointing to talkspirit.letsdoo.org... so your header area is still pointing to talkspirit URL's.

    Check out this call to your css file:
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://talkspirit.letsdoo.org/my-templates/bbVanilla/style.css" type="text/css" />

    Here's the code that generates that (in my header.php at least):
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" type="text/css" />

    You should be able to fix this using phpmyadmin. Try running this query to find the row you need to change:
    SELECT * FROM bb_topicmeta WHERE meta_key='uri'

    Then edit the row so that the meta_value for that row is the url for your new site...

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Yay - genius! Many thanks. Hope the topic is of use to another as well.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Sweet, glad it's working now! :-)

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