gabs007 Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 Short Story. I saved a few search urls for one of my IPS websites. They searched specifically in forums or "nodes" 4,6,7,9,14 It happened that 4 days ago I thought, "Those forums are not actually needed any more" so instead of moving them to a Moderator Category, hidden from public view, I deleted the forums ??♂️ My mistake. Well, now I need to recover forum ID, 6,7 & 14 but I deleted them. New Forums I create will have a different ID ( 40,41 etc ) and I have more than a hundred URL's searching for those nodes "4,6,7,9,14" and I can't change those URLs. My question is. If I create a new forum, can I modify the ID directly in the database ? For example I create a forum, the system says it's forum 46. Could I go to the mysql and replace the 46 for a 6 ? for example ? or is there anything else I should take into account ?
AlexWright Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 Is there not a backup point to restore to? I would advise against directly editing the database...
gabs007 Posted May 7, 2018 Author Posted May 7, 2018 39 minutes ago, AlexWright said: Is there not a backup point to restore to? I would advise against directly editing the database... I thought about that too, but It's been already 4 days. I can't restore the backup and losing those 4 days.
bfarber Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 I wouldn't recommend editing values in the database directly (for instance, permissions are stored in a separate table and that table would also need to be adjusted). Why not just set up a redirect (i.e. an .htaccess redirect) to send these saved URLs to the new location?
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