Quoth the Server - 404!

[Creamsteak]

For some reason, when I access the pbp forums, I'm getting a weird white screen (snapshot attached). I can't see threads when it's up.

 

[Michael Morris]

Links directing to http://www.enworld.org/forums/* should not work.

 

[Sephiroth no Miko]

Oh dear, does this mean a whole bunch of links (in sigs and whatnot) to old posts are now kaput (since they all pretty much followed that format)?

Looks like I'm going to be updating a bunch of bookmarks...

As a side note, you have my appreciation, MM, for working so hard on the site!

 

[Michael Morris]

Omit the /forums/ part of the url. Items that were at http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=X are now at http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=X Internal links are unaffected, external links to threads will break.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I bet that's going to be a whole load of broken links! The server log files are going to be showing 404 errors for a long time to come

have you considered and rejected any options for automatically removing /forums from incoming URLs or performing an appropriate redirect? Or even including in the 404 error page the probably correct URL (i.e. if the incoming URL is of the form enworld.org/forums/*** it provides a link enworld.org/*** )

Cheers

 

[Michael Morris]

I tried aliasing forums/ to /http but that disrupts the cookies.

 

[Turanil]

When I reach this page http://www.enworld.org/forums.php, the link leading to the Off-topic Discussion forum does lead me to a 404 Error page.

 

[Turanil]

As a side note, you have my appreciation, MM, for working so hard on the site!

Yeah, thanks for all that great job!

 

[jonesy]

Omit the /forums/ part of the url. Items that were at http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=X are now at http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=X Internal links are unaffected, external links to threads will break.

The off-topic link at the front page appears to me in the former style and leads to a 404, while the off-topic link at the general rpg forum is of the latter style and works fine.

Oh, and the normal smilie appears as a text saying "smilie" in the list, and doesn't show at all in a post.

 

[LeapingShark]

Yea, all of the links embedded within the varius forum descriptions are pointing to the old "enworld.org/forums/..." and are sending back 404s.