Quoth the Server - 404!

[Anna-Tar]

The link to "EN World Neverwinter Nights Web Page" is broken

Steps to reproduce
1. Click Site Menu, then Messageboards
2. Click Software, Computers and D&D Utilities (http://www.enworld.org/forumdisplay.php?f=6)
3. Click EN World Neverwinter Nights Web Page (http://www.enworld.org/forumdisplay.php?f=177)

This results in a 404 error.

 

[Asmor]

"My User Control Panel" in the "My Account" drop down is broken, still links to /forums/usercp.php

 

[azmodean]

The link to Living ENWorld from http://www.enworld.org/forums.php are listed as http://www.enworld.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=89

At a second glance, all of the "subforums" are listed with "/forums/forumdisplay.php"

 

[tjoneslo]

From the D20 Reviews page, the title bar for "Message Boards" also connect to http://www.enworld.org/forums

 

[dpmcalister]

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.

Following this advice, I've fixed my sites problem with sydnicating your news, but you need to add fixing the link details on the Syndication page to reflect this.

 

[johnsemlak]

I noticed links I have posted in my sig are leading to the 404 page. Should I reset the links somehow, or will that be fixed eventually?

 

[EricNoah]

I noticed links I have posted in my sig are leading to the 404 page. Should I reset the links somehow, or will that be fixed eventually?

Kind of a pain, but it looks like any URL like this...

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108597

will have to be adjusted to look like this:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=108597

(take "forums/" out of the URL)

(And what makes it strange is that on the first day I was able to get to the old-style links, but now I can't.)

 

[Michael Morris]

Hmm.. The first day I had apache configured to alias those back, but images started breaking and I feared cookie corruption, so I set it to 404.

 

[EricNoah]

This might be related to the missing smileys, no?

(We're providing you clues so you, the Master Inquisitive, can track down the culprit! )

 

[Michael Morris]

Probably is. I'll check the smiley paths to make sure they are absolute.

If an image breaks, view the source code and check if it's absolute or relative. An absolute link looks like this

http://www.enworld.org/images/something.gif

A relative link is

images/something.gif