(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.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 6 months 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

[@michael3185 Member 15 years, 6 months 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

???

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

What is your bbPress Address set to now?

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

[@michael3185 Member 15 years, 6 months 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.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 6 months 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&#8221; 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…

[@michael3185 Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

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

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

Sweet, glad it’s working now!