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Switching URL to a subdomain


  • extremejacob
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    @extremejacob

    I tried looking around for a solution, but I only found enough info to mess my system up slightly. I think I am missing one crucial part of the solution.

    I have installed bbpress as

    website.com/forum

    with a folder

    public_html/forum

    This works great.

    However, I want to move this to a subdomain like this

    forum.website.com/

    If I make such a subdomain on my host, this will also use the public_html/forum folder. So far so good. (I used my host’s cpanel for this, no redirects.)

    I went to Admin/General Settings and changed the URL from

    website.com/forum/ to forum.website.com/

    What happens then is the all the forum names come up and you can log in, but the posts are gone. Also, I get a lot of 500 errors.

    I use name-based permalinks. (I suspect the problem may have something to do with this?)

    I figure I need to do some 301 redirects in my .htaccess for whenever someone has ahref’ed a forum post, that’s no problem—I’ll do that later.

    The problem right now is that I can’t see the forum posts anymore?!

    It’s like some of the databases work but others (the post) do not.

    Did I do something wrong or am I missing something?

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