Giving Vanilla Forums its own Directory

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• [Deleted User] ✭✭

  February 2014

  What Vanilla Version are you using?

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• Shadowdare MVP

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  For normal sub-directory installation, you may install Vanilla Forums in its own directory by creating a new directory and uploading the Vanilla Forums files in there. For clean URL support, you must add RewriteBase /YourDirectory/ to Vanilla's .htaccess file.

  For something like WordPress' "access a blog which is installed in a sub-directory from the site root" feature, it's not built-in, but you may be able to do so with complex rewrite rules.

  Add Pages to Vanilla with the Basic Pages app

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• gharald ✭

  February 2014

  @shadowdare thanks for the input.
  @ilovetech Version 2.0.18.10

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• x00 MVP

  February 2014

  It should be a lot simpler then wordpress becuase everything goes through a single dispatcher if dynamic.

  You have two approaches. If you are not putting anything int he web root that is going to be served, simply change the webroot itself.

  Otherwise

  Put this in .htaccess for the webroot (keep the .htaccess in the forum folder intact)

  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteBase / 
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
      RewriteRule . - [L]
  
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forumfolder $1 [QSA,L]
  
  </IfModule>
  

  Changing forumfolder to the folder name. Make sure there is no index.php or index.html, etc at all in the web root.

  Add these values to your /forumfolder/conf/config.php

  $Configuration['Garden']['WebRoot'] = '/forumfolder';
  $Configuration['Garden']['StripWebRoot'] = '/forumfolder/';
  

  In /forumfolder/.htaccess make sure RewriteBase is /forumfolder

  clear all the *.ini files in /forumfolder/cache

  if you want to redirect anything that (such as in post) that is prefixed with this forumfolder you can put

  RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [QSA,R=301,L]
  

  after the RewriteBase line in /forumfolder/.htaccess that will 301 redirect the external incoming urls to the correct place.

  The solution above is much better than the wordpress solution because, the wordpress solution the folder is referenced on output for the resources, and many things like the wp-admin, etc

  ....

  You can put stuff in the web root but use it sparingly. Obviously anything that is web directly or a file, has potential to conflict with any application matching the same url.

  Lastly work through the server rules, instead of just applying them, aim to understand every single line. it much better to understand than to blindly copy. A lot is possible with server rules, and server rules are a prerogative of the server admin/web master. There is pleanty of documentation and help online for apache and other server rules.

  grep is your friend.

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• gharald ✭

  February 2014

  @x00 thank you! I will give it a try.

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• peregrine MVP

  November 2014 edited November 2014

  @gharald said:
  x00 thank you! I will give it a try.

  Did it work for you. and what your ultimate solution was after you gave it a try.

  so if you come back and see this discussion, it might help other users with the same question

  I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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