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Wordpress Plugin problems

great_potatogreat_potato
edited May 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hello everyone!

Struggling a little with the Wordpress plugin to embed Vanilla Forums.

I'm not actually looking to embed my forum, but rather, want the widgets that come with it. Every time I insert my forum address I receive the following message:

"Forum url could not be validated. Are you sure you entered the correct web address of your forum?"

My Wordpress is located in the root:
http://www.mysite.com/

My Vanilla forums is located in:
http://www.mysite.com/messageboards/

The strange thing is, IT DID WORK. I was throwing errors at me yesterday and then suddenly it started working. After I changed a few things (editing Wordpress templates) I went back and noticed suddenly it had stopped. I literally can't think of anything I could have changed to make it stop working.

Any help or any clues as to why I keep getting this error would stop me from pulling my (very little) hair out today!

Regards,

Aaron

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    great_potatogreat_potato
    Hello - anybody know what the problem might be?
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    great_potatogreat_potato
    Nobody at all has any clue? Could it be some of the server settings?
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    ToddTodd Chief Product Officer Vanilla Staff
    @Mark programmed this plugin. Let's see if he knows.
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    MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    What are you entering in the main plugin page as your forum url?
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    alexvaldovinosalexvaldovinos New
    edited June 2011
    This has worked for me:

    When you try to configure your Vanilla Forum to work with WordPress, the example says:

    "Paste the url to your Vanilla forum here (eg. http://yourdomain.com/forum)".

    So I did just that 3 times using my domain and correct path with no success, every time the field goes empty with this message:

    "Forum url could not be validated. Are you sure you entered the correct web address of your forum?"

    Yes, I'm sure!! Lol

    So, instead of pasting:

    "http://yourdomain.com/forum"

    I pasted:

    "http://yourdomain.com/forum/index.php?p=/"

    ( this is the URL that you get when you click in VISIT SITE in your Vanilla install )

    I saved, and now it's working!

    The cool thing is that if you see in the field now, it says:

    http://yourdomain.com/forum


    Cheers,
    Alex


    Struggling a little with the Wordpress plugin to embed Vanilla Forums.

    I'm not actually looking to embed my forum, but rather, want the widgets that come with it. Every time I insert my forum address I receive the following message:

    "Forum url could not be validated. Are you sure you entered the correct web address of your forum?"

    My Wordpress is located in the root:
    http://www.mysite.com/

    My Vanilla forums is located in:
    http://www.mysite.com/messageboards/

    The strange thing is, IT DID WORK. I was throwing errors at me yesterday and then suddenly it started working. After I changed a few things (editing Wordpress templates) I went back and noticed suddenly it had stopped. I literally can't think of anything I could have changed to make it stop working.

    Any help or any clues as to why I keep getting this error would stop me from pulling my (very little) hair out today!

    Regards,

    Aaron

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    Occupy4IranOccupy4Iran
    That didn't work for me.
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