Ocean West Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean West Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jimmo Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve00 Posted March 31, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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