I finally got clean URLs enabled yesterday and today I just noticed that my forums are not accessible.
I originally installed a SMF forum and wrapped it in a Drupal page. Then I decided to just use the built-in Drupal forum so that my users wouldn't have to register separately for the forum. I kept the old forum around in case I decide to use it again someday (I really prefer SMF/phpbb-type forums over the Drupal forum...it's so limited).
However, now that clean URLs are enabled, my old SMF forum is the only one accessible via:
http://www.ubuntuwebservers.com/forum/
While I have no idea how to get to my built-in Drupal forums. I think it's supposed to be the same path, but the old forum is there.
What do I need to do in order to make my Drupal forums accessible at the default /forum path? And how can I access the old forum with clean URLs?
Vince
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I wish I could edit my topic
I forgot to add that sections of my built-in Drupal forums are accessible at URLs such as:
http://www.ubuntuwebservers.com/forum/3
Vince
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Rename the directory
Best bet is to rename the SMF directory (to, say, smfforum). Drupal forums will work then - its an issue with how Apache handles modrewrites (technically, objects in the filesystem take precedence over aliases).
ahh...very nice
That worked. Thanks.
I consider it kind of a temporary fix, though, as I wanted to have both forums available at the same time. Since the SMF install depends on it's location being in the /forum directory, I would think it would have to be renamed back to /forum whenever I want to access it which would, of course, disable the built-in forums.
Do you have an idea of how I can make them both accessible, given that information?
That was a big help.
Vince
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You could use the path
You could use the path module to set an alias to 'forum' in drupal, and alter your menu links to use the alias. That *might* work.