how do i change the name of the folder my forum is?

Hamed

how do i change the name of the folder my forum is without messing up the forum? i have done this b4 changing discussions to community but it gave me some error i don't remmeber what but does anyone know what i have to do or what files i have to edit to change my folder from discussions to community? thank you in advance

tannerc

hi- im very new to vanilla..but i needed to change my folder that was holding forum so idid this: i duplicated ( on my server ) my forum folder /test/ /test_copy/ then named test_copy to the new name.. then i opened the settings.php file, in the new folder and changed all instances of the old address to the forum, to the new one ( i did it using bbedit-much faster) then i logged into my original forum , clicked on settings, clicked on application settings, and changed the following, to new folder address:( found at bottom ): Web-path to Vanilla Cookie domain Cookie path and saved.. then logged into my forum via new address.. and all systems seems to be woking perfect..... hope this helps

tannerc

once in new forum, had to also go to settings, and page settigs and change the urls for tabs in each page.

Hamed

oh i see thanks that helps umm so you did not loose members or anything?

tannerc

no- ity appears everything went over without a hitch- i sent an email to all users ( we r in beta mode so not many yet) and put up an announcment with the new address.let me know how it goes for you.

Hamed

it did not work for me T_T i have my forum under the folder discussions i want it to be under folder community when i change the name of the forum i get many errors i don't know what files to edit to make the errors go away

Grahack

Could you give us a live URL or is it still local? Or you can copy-paste the errors you get for us to help you.

Hamed

umm well here is one : http://iduel.org/community/

Hamed

bump sorry for the bump i need the help though T_T

WallPhone

conf/settings.php, about the first ten lines or so, it should be fairly obvious what to change

Hamed

that is all i edit or is there something else too? thank you so much your help is greatly appreciated

Hamed

ok so i did that and it worked but the extension 'smile' does not work

cooloft

how to do this for the latest version of vanilla2? it has no conf/settings.php!

chuckD

@cooloft Rename the folder and then go to the cache folder and delete the files in there. After that, you should be able to see it again.