Dandello Forum AdministratorYaBB Modder Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2234 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign: Redirecting YaBB Dec 20th, 2014 at 1:30am Mark & QuoteQuote You've moved your forum and can't use a server (.htaccess) redirect. Replace the contents of your old YaBB.pl file with: Code (Perl)#!/usr/bin/perl -- print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" or die 'cannot print line1'; print qq~ <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-us"> <head> <title>YaBB Webmaster redirect</title> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl" /> </head> <body style="background-color:#ffffff"> <p style="text-align:center">The content you are looking for has moved. You will be redirected to the new location automatically in 5 seconds. Please bookmark the correct page at <a href="http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl">http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl</a> </p> </body> </html>~ or die 'cannot print line2'; Since it's absolutely basic html you can style it however you want. It will automatically redirect to the new address. (Obviously you should point it to your new forum.) Perfection is not possible. Excellence, however, is excellent. WWW IP Logged
Red Barchetta Junior Member Offline Posts: 62 Location: Miami, FL. USA Joined: Oct 4th, 2014 Gender: Zodiac sign: Re: Redirecting YaBB Reply #1 - Dec 20th, 2014 at 4:35am Mark & QuoteQuote Thanks for the help with this. I needed it as I had moved my YaBB Forum to a new folder on my server. I had changed the Paths.pl so after hitting the old folder it would change to the new one, but I still see I have more entry page hits starting on the old folder than directly going to the new one. This will create a 5 second pause and inform them of the new URL, and then redirect them there. Does the .httaccess redirect method support a message? Florida Classics and Muscle Car Automotive Forum Administrator WWW IP Logged
Dandello Forum Administrator Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2234 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign: Re: Redirecting YaBB Reply #2 - Dec 20th, 2014 at 3:29pm Mark & QuoteQuote Red Barchetta wrote on Dec 20th, 2014 at 4:35am:Does the .httaccess redirect method support a message? No - it just sends the browser to the new place with '301' (permanently moved) flag. For .htaccess Code RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^testbed\.dandello\.net$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yabbforumsoftware\.com" [R=301,L] The above is from the redirect from a subdomain on dandello.net to here when I moved this site to its domain. Also see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html Perfection is not possible. Excellence, however, is excellent. WWW IP Logged