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Ocean West Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 for over a decade i have always installed my forums at /forum when going to 4 is there any pros or cons to installing the suite at the root ?
Rhett Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 My personal preference is root, or it only lengthens the url, such as /forum/forum on some urls if you use a folder, which looks bad imo. So I always do the root domain on mine. I think it's just preference, I don't see any impact on anything other than looks of the url though.
Ocean West Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks Rett - i may give that a try when i go 4 - what happens if people have book marks or keep a list of favorite links - will it naturally redirect?
Rhett Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Actually it can be problematic, due to the forum itself using the /forum in it's stock urls, so you can't redirect /forum to / or it breaks it, at least in 3.4.x, I haven't tested this yet in IPS4, however I assume it would do the same. Now if you used /forums prior, then you can redirect /forums and retain all links to / but not /forum I'm afraid.
AndyF Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 My preference is the root too or if that is not possible consider a subdomain ie: something.site.com rather than a subfolder. This also avoids the 'issue' with duplicated /forum in the URL too in most cases.
The Jimmo Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Agreed with @Rhett and @AndyF. Only reason to avoid root is if you have another system there that could interact with IPS badly.
steve00 Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 for 3.4.x I used sub domain of community and left the root for other things (e.g. if wanting a static web page or for IP.Content)Not sure how this will work with IPB 4 though
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