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By miasmo on
I enabled the forum module. I created a container called "forums" with parent set to "root" (the only choice available from the pull-down menu.) I created a forum with parent set to "forums." Where is the forum? It doesn't show up anywhere? Please help me out here. What have I done wrong?
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www.example.com/forum ?
www.example.com/forum
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It's blank
Thanks for the reply.
I tried that. It's just a blank page. Neither the container I created nor the forum I put inside it show up at all.
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if clean urls aren't enabled use yoursite.com/?q=forum
if that doesn't work then there is likely another issue though you've not supplied much information and responses will likely be more guess work than necessary.
Try not naming your container forums. name it something else. After adding a container, ensure you physicall add forums in adminsiter -> forums
What other info?
Clean urls are enabled. yoursite.com/?q=forum goes to the same page as yoursite.com/forum. The page is not completely blank - it has the node title "Forum" and that's it.
It wouldn't allow no name at all for the container. I renamed it. Still not showing up in forum page.
I don't have an administer -> forums link. Only administer -> content management -> forums. Perhaps this is what you meant.
I will be happy to provide more info, but I don't know what is relevant. Any suggestions? It is a new installation of 6.14. I have views, cck, fckeditor, date, and calendar modules enabled. I created a couple Zen subthemes, but I have set it to Garland while I am trying to work this out.
other info
I messed around for a couple weeks creating my subtheme and tweaking the configuration, etc. before I enabled the forum module. When I did, there was a new page ("Forum") listed in administer -> content management -> content. It is basically a blank page with a node number, a title, and a url path setting ("forum") but nothing in the body.
I have a previous drupal 6.13 installation which had a forum. In this case, there is no "forum" listed in administer -> content management -> content. But the created forums do show up on the forum page.
Why is my new installation behaving differently from the old one?
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please link to a screen captire of your administer -> forums screen and link it here.
yes administer -> forums = administer -> content -> forums
Problem solved
I don't know what went wrong, but I disabled the forums module, deleted the forum page and then re-enabled the forums module, and now it's working.
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You created a page with an
You created a page with an alias of "forum" so that overrode your going to the page created by the forum module.