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  1. Juster

    Juster Regular Member

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    Since I do not get any answer on the boards which are specialy for VB, I'll try it here...

    I know it is possible to make a forum set as url, that when a person clicks on it, the wil be redirected. Now I would like to have it for topics. I make a topic and when the click on it, they will be redirected.

    Is there a way to do it?
     
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    Cerberus Admin Talk Staff

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    Yeah I am sure that is doable in the same fashion as a forum. But, I dont recall any specific mod.. Where exactly do you want topics redirected to? You could manage these quite easy if you want them to all go the same place...Though I dont understand why you would wanna do this?
     
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    First a big thanks for anwering. Unbeleivable that on the vb-boards nobody answers anymore...

    But to go to your question.
    I have a board which is pretty serious and there is no place for fun. I do have a sub-forum for less serious stuff, but I keep it low. I also have a couple threadgames, but since I do not want many of them, I do want to provide the service. Now I have an offtopic-board and there are loads of threadgames and other funtopics.
    I want to keep 2 real topic alive on the serious board and like 3 'fake' topics which redirects to live topics on the other board. (Still get it?)

    The big reason is that my serious board is about health and members are active for a short time to talk about what is going on with them and ask questions, seeking people who have the same experiences etc. It is not a board for a long stay and do not want that they feel too much at home because I do not want other people get the feeling that they are interupting in an old group of members. So I do not want topics that makes people to come back for.
     
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    Cerberus Admin Talk Staff

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    Well, if its only a couple I guess the easiest dirty way would be to use htaccess and just 301 redirect the posting url to wherever you want it to go...Plus that would be better for you SEOwise ...Plus its easy to do LOL
     
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    Maybe we could make a "forum support/question" section since we have so many forum addicts here. :)

    To answer the question, I don't really understand what you want? :-/

    Are you wanting to setup URL mapping for another URL, not your forum.com?
     
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    He has a couple posts on his forum he wants to send to another forum when they are clicked. I think 301 is easiest and best way. Just make a wildcard so it redirects for everything in the post :)
     
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    Ah okay, are these threads made by one person?
    If so, allow that user to post HTML via groups, then a 301 in the post.

    Or just do it via .htaccess or have someone make a mod for it.
     
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    I dont know how you would make a mod for that? Maybe use a php redirect?


    Also this is good for those wanting to learn to make a mod.. It has basics :)

    http://www.megavideo.com/?d=7EQO9BSP
     
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    What I was thinking is a mod that you would have a field in the newthread template that a user could add a URL to point the thread too.
    This would have to be based on usergroup for security reasons.
     
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    That sounds like a good idea. Though I dont really know why you would use that, but good idea :)
     
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    Wow, I get that old vb-feeling again, good!!!

    In your admin you can setup a new forum, we all know that. One of the settings of that is that you can make it to be an url (forums&moderators>Add new forum> third line which states:
    )
    That is in fact what I would like to have for a topic, ofcourse only admin permissions.
     
    Juster, Oct 10, 2010
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