Logo for the forum? Easier URL?

[Paul]

You know I'm not a graphician.

http://zx81.republika.pl/zxlogo_forum1.png
To resize whatever anybody wants.

PS: After those changes it's impossible to log into the forum on the original WWW address. I thought it might be important.

As this is the (only) Forum also featuring the ZX80 it would be nice to a picture of it too, maybe ZX80 on the left, ZX81 on the right?

Otherwise, this is quite close to what our world really is

[RWAP]

You know I'm not a graphician.

http://zx81.republika.pl/zxlogo_forum1.png
To resize whatever anybody wants.

PS: After those changes it's impossible to log into the forum on the original WWW address. I thought it might be important.

One of the problems with the phpBB forums is that the cookie doesn't work properly if you don't use the same domain name as the server...

I have tried using a redirect in .htaccess to move you to http://www.sinclairzxworld.com, but the redirect doesn't seem to work properly (even though I have tested that it works in a htacess tester)

What is wrong with:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

#Ensure cannot access via http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ZX80_ZX81/forums/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?rwapservices.co.uk [nc]
RewriteRule ^ZX80_ZX81/forums/(.*)$ http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

[PokeMon]

I am not sure but do you think URL rewriting is possible with different domain names ?
If you have a catch all listener - maybe.
But I don't think that the apache listener for the old domain will redirect this session to another (new) listener.
I am not an expert and didn't check this - just an idea.

Maybe it is more easy to redirect to a simple static page on the old domain which initiates a redirect via the browser of the user.
Would be nice with a message, that the forum has changed.
Maybe even not automatic forward to it, maybe just a link to follow to read the message and decide what to do.
And be careful what the google bot does.
Would be a pity to have this domain unlisted.

Change of a domain name is not trivial.

[PokeMon]

By the way, adding a post will not show the last post after sending it, it jumps to the first post of the thread.
Not convenient if threads have more than one page.

[RWAP]

I am not sure but do you think URL rewriting is possible with different domain names ?
If you have a catch all listener - maybe.
But I don't think that the apache listener for the old domain will redirect this session to another (new) listener.
I am not an expert and didn't check this - just an idea.

Maybe it is more easy to redirect to a simple static page on the old domain which initiates a redirect via the browser of the user.
Would be nice with a message, that the forum has changed.
Maybe even not automatic forward to it, maybe just a link to follow to read the message and decide what to do.
And be careful what the google bot does.
Would be a pity to have this domain unlisted.

Change of a domain name is not trivial.

I realise that - the htaccess should work - the rewrite should redirect to the new domain name - I have tried changing it to redirect to google.com and that works so long as I use the code

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?rwapservices.co.uk [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

So that suggests the issue is with the prefix in the line:

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RewriteRule ^ZX80_ZX81/forums/(.*)$ http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Oddly using a htaccess tester shows that the URL is correctly redirected to the new domain

The problem with a static page and HTML redirect from there is that you lose the direct links to posts - especially useful for all of the posts in search engine results.

[RWAP]

By the way, adding a post will not show the last post after sending it, it jumps to the first post of the thread.
Not convenient if threads have more than one page.

Hmm - that is odd - I wonder why....

[RWAP]

I had another thought on the htaccess file, and having changed it - it now works.

The second line had to read:

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RewriteRule ZX80_ZX81/forums(.*) http://www.sinclairzxworld.com$1 [R=301,L]

[Bill H]

You need to put some note on the home page or login page - I logged in 5 or 6 times before I started looking around for why it wasnt working and found the post about the new url



Bill H

[yerzmyey]

As this is the (only) Forum also featuring the ZX80 it would be nice to a picture of it too, maybe ZX80 on the left, ZX81 on the right?
Otherwise, this is quite close to what our world really is

Hm, that's actually a good point.
I will try to make such a thing tomorrow.
Although I do hope I have some _good_ photo of ZX80 in my collection.
Hm, there SHOULD be something.
Greetz,
Y

[RWAP]

You need to put some note on the home page or login page - I logged in 5 or 6 times before I started looking around for why it wasnt working and found the post about the new url



Bill H

The redirect was not always working for some reason - everyone should now be redirected to the new URL.....