Forum fails to load on page reload

rmg

I have been testing embedding Vanilla in a WordPress blog and I have to say it looks great, with the exception of one problem. If I reload the page without interacting with the forum then everything is fine. However, if I reload the page while I'm using the embedded forum (e.g I'm at url site.com/forum/#/activity) then the resulting reload has the WordPress blog embedded in the WordPress blog where the forum should be and the forum does not load. Suggestions?

Tim

@Mark

Mark

@rmg - Can you share the url where this is happening? You can email me if you don't want it public: mark at vanillaforums.com

Mark

For the record - @rmg emailed me and I took a look at his implementation.

It looks like the plugin is trying to access the forum as if rewrite urls is turned on, but it is actually turned off. For example, if I go to the forum itself and then click on "activity", I am sent to this url:

http://www.domain.com/forum/index.php?p=/activity

When rewrite urls is turned on, it would instead send you to this url:

http://www.domain.com/forum/activity

The plugin is trying to send me to the second url when I refresh the page, so it is breaking and showing me a page-not-found page.

We will implement a fix so that the plugin respects non-rewritten urls, but an immediate fix is to set up rewrite urls for his forum. This should be a simple matter of making sure that the .htaccess file that comes with Vanilla is sitting in the forum folder (http://www.domain.com/forum/) and Apache is configured to allow it to be used.

Mark

I've implemented a fix for this issue. You can review it here:

https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/3ea83e823c1a89db635453e0822da97f49eb71e8

If anyone else runs into this problem before the release goes out, just make the changes in the remote.js file shown on the link above.

jacobdubail

Works great for me! Thanks for the fix.

atseem

This patch is in 2.0.16 and breaks my installation. If i force embeded it choose the wrong URL. the remote url is not called.

url looks something like:

http://foo.example.com//vanilla/index.php?p=/index.php?p=/discussions

i remember i had also something with

http://*****&remote=http://foo.example.com/forum

Ubuntu 10.x

i deleted the patch and reverts to 2.0.15 from remote.js and everything works like a charm

SteveP

Hey guys,

I am having the same refresh problem. My forum's url is forum.policyworks.com. I am hosting a customer session in about 1 hour. I have viewed the remote.js file online and it appears to be okay. The php file appears to be blank (nothing shows when I view source).

I don't know much about what I'm doing, so any help would be much appreciated.

Steve

Emadello

I've implemented a fix for this issue. You can review it here:

https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/3ea83e823c1a89db635453e0822da97f49eb71e8

If anyone else runs into this problem before the release goes out, just make the changes in the remote.js file shown on the link above.

THANK YOU!