i can't access the archive forum (merged)

[Knight Otu]

This seems to be an unexpected side effect of the software which is providing 'search engine friendly' URLs for ENworld... We'll have to look further into the solution for this.

Core of the problem is that the Archive forum has the same name, and thus the same adress, as the internal VBulletin archives, right?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive/

and

http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive/index.php/

since, as I recall, an index.php file is automatically used in such a case. You probably already tried this, but how much would renaming the Archive forum help?

 

[Mark]

Maybe a new forum called the forum-archive could be created and a test thread or two from the general forum and from the current archive forum could be moved to it? I guess duplicates of those test threads could first be made and the dupes could be moved.

 

[Saracenus]

It seems that all the Gary Gygax Q&As got put into the Meta - Forums About Forums > Archive section where threads go to die. Every link in there seems to be broken. Shouldn't the Q&As be in the General RPG forum archive?

 

[grodog]

Thanks Plane Sailing.

Do you have any idea on the likelihood of this being fixable at all?---i.e., is it a issue that can't be fixed, or it is one that just requires some time to work on and therefore isn't on the table to fix at the moment, etc.?

I ask because if the archive isn't likely to be fixable at all or sooner vs. later, would it be feasible to host the Q&A content on Canonfire!, for example, from files saved off of the site already??

 

[Darkness]

Maybe a new forum called the forum-archive could be created and a test thread or two from the general forum and from the current archive forum could be moved to it? I guess duplicates of those test threads could first be made and the dupes could be moved.

Hm, we could mass-move the threads (maybe one at a time, for extra safety), but that particular function has no copy option AFAIK. (I can't use the normal move function because I can't open the threads or the forum they're in.)
Now, it should be safe; we haven't lost a thread to a failed move since many years and software upgrades ago.

 

[grodog]

So, Darkness: are you saying that moving the Q&A threads manually (singly or in bulk) is feasible/possible to do?? Are you also hinting that such a move could be risky in some way (because copy won't work)??

 

[Plane Sailing]

Core of the problem is that the Archive forum has the same name, and thus the same adress, as the internal VBulletin archives, right?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive/

and

http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive/index.php/

since, as I recall, an index.php file is automatically used in such a case. You probably already tried this, but how much would renaming the Archive forum help?

As it turns out, renaming the Archive forum solves the problem!

I've renamed it to "archive-threads" and I can now access everything properly.

Cheers

 

[grodog]

Awesome, thanks Plane Sailing!

 

[rossik]

thank you very much!

 

[Nikosandros]

Many thanks for taking care of this!