Hi everyone, I'm new to Vanilla and would consider myself decently able to find my way around the files structure and generally poke around. I installed it on my server and everything is great. Except in my header, the links point to the wrong path. I used an add-on domain to a hosting package I already pay for, and the links point to my original domain. How would I get these to point to the add-on domain? I've got a feeling a forward slash is missing somewhere. I hope I am being clear. Check it out here. Thank you in advance!! -Jordan
in the mean time (and to change the setting), you will have to manually change the url after each link. Also, it may be easier to scour your /conf/settings.php to find any references to the old domain. (scour's not the best word, there should be only one reference to your old domain, the "Web path to Vanilla" mentioned above, except if you have any other addons, such as attachments0
Thanks for the quick replies. When I checked my Web-path to Vanilla, it was pointed to my new (i.e. add-on) domain. From what I under stood from you, fysicsluvr, I changed that URL to the full length, old domain path. Now things are a bit screwy and I can't access settings.php. Did I make a mistake? Thanks again!
you need to change the path to vanilla to "http://www.mfaforums.com/". It may be hard to do that now that it's set wrong, so you should download (via ftp) your /conf/settings.php file, edit the setting manually, and re-upload it.
fysicsluvr, The original path to vanilla was http://www.mfaforums.com/. I was able to revert it to this thanks to your suggestion regarding downloading the settings.php file. However, the links at the top are still referring to the full (and wrong) path. Any ideas? Thanks for your help so far, Jordan
Also, I am trying to change the links manually, but (if you haven't picked up on it yet) I'm not that well versed in the backend (i.e. PHP) code. Where exactly can I find that HTML on the index, categories, search, settings, etc pages? Thanks!
no, it's a lot more dynamic than that; it's in the file http://www.mfaforums.com/conf/settings.php, which contains a lot of the settings for vanilla. Just find anything in there (ftp) that references http://www.jordanfulghum.com/MFAforums/ and change it to the new path. (just keep the syntax the same; look at what it is now, and the other lines, and you should be ok.)
Hmm. Odd. No references to that old domain in that settings.php file. I even tried hard coding all of the paths to http://www.mfaforums.com. No luck. Thanks for your help so far.