| Forum Software ? |
Thu, 17 April 2008 14:06  |
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One for the admins i guess, but i'm not sure who they are and theres no link to contact one directly !
What software does this board run on ?
i have never seen this style of board anywhere before and most boards run on IPB these days which seems to be a lot more flexible and hve a lot more features for users.
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| Re: Forum Software ? |
Thu, 17 April 2008 21:06  |
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This board is a heavily moded version of fudforum.
Dave.
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Fri, 18 April 2008 11:38 |
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Thanks Dave, i have never heard of that software before.
(Goes off to look up fudforum).
Any plans to change to the more mainstream IPB or is this suiting your needs well ?
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Fri, 18 April 2008 13:36 |
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We have moded this highly so there are many features not in the standard release. Fudforum is one of (if not thee) fastest pieces of forum software and is written by a PHP security expert. I've seen other pieces of forum software and for the most part they aren't well written. I'll stick to this as it covers our needs well.
Regards,
Dave
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Fri, 18 April 2008 23:40 |
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I love this forum board and system, so hope that it never changes 
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Mike
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Thu, 24 April 2008 02:56 |
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The usual suspects, phpBB, vBulletin, and the like have a number of serious design faults that affect their search-engine indexing, as well as being rather large targets for people with bad intent. This forum works well enough. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 
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Thu, 24 April 2008 11:46 |
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It would be nice to be able to pop an avatar on and directly post pictures though.
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Thu, 24 April 2008 11:56 |
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Not directly posting pictures is a choice we made, it's not a limitation in the forum software.
Dave.
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Thu, 24 April 2008 16:44 |
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A question well answered folks - thanks for the replies.
Now, on another note, could it be possible to access this page:
http://www.stockingshq.com/newforum/index.php
just by typing the following:
www.stockingshq.com/forums
I'll leave you to that one...
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| Re: Forum Software ? |
Wed, 07 May 2008 21:26 |
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If the site runs on Apache, it would be easy enough to set up a 301 redirect so that you could type that in and be redirected to the right address. As long as the HTTP status is 301, then it would have no search-engine implications either.
Look what happens when you type bt.com/phonebook in to your browser, for example. However, why not just store the URL in the browser bookmarks?
One important point, is that the URLs for all exisiting forum content should not be changed, ever. One suggestion though is to not include the index file filename in the link. End the URL with the / after the folder name.
So, http://www.stockingshq.com/newforum/ is the canonical form. You never need to type in the index file filename to access a site, and you should be able to get away without typing the trailing slash, as the server should add it back on automatically.
So, in comparison to your suggestion of
[Updated on: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:34]
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Wed, 07 May 2008 22:13 |
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If the site runs on Apache, it would be easy enough to set up a 301 redirect so that you could type that short URL in and be redirected to the right address. As long as the HTTP status is returned as 301, then it would have no search-engine implications either. A 302 redirect would be a disaster here.
Look what happens when you type bt.com/phonebook in to your browser, for example. It redirects to some other URL, the one where the content really resides. There, you don't have to remember the long URL. However, why not just store the URL in your browser bookmarks?
One important point, is that the URLs for all existing forum content (the threads) should not be changed, ever. One suggestion though, is to not include the index filename in the internal links here. End the URL with the / right after the folder name. It should work fine.
So, http://www.stockingshq.com/newforum/ is the canonical form. You should never need to type in the index filename itself, to access a site, and you should be able to get away without typing the trailing slash too. The server should add it on back on automatically.
So, in comparison to your suggestion of www.stockingshq.com/forums note that www.stockingshq.com/newforum also works and is just three characters more. In fact, stockingshq.com/newforum also works (and is several characters less) and it correctly redirects to the forum home page at www.stockingshq.com/newforum/ as required.
So, if you want to save on typing try this one, stockingshq.com/newforum as it is the shortest form of all.
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| Re: Forum Software ? |
Thu, 08 May 2008 09:05 |
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A big thank you for your post.
That explains it perfectly.
A refreshing change to see someone who can put together a clear and knowledgeable answer to a question.
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| Re: Forum Software ? |
Thu, 08 May 2008 20:14 |
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I do that stuff all day long, just about getting the hang of it now. 
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Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54 |
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| jo wrote on Thu, 08 May 2008 20:14 |
I do that stuff all day long, just about getting the hang of it now.
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Maybe you could tell me the best way of preventing an SQL injection attack in the future?
I have quite a large forum that runs on SMF 1.1.4 (unrelated to the topic of this one) and we got hacked. It took 15 hours to get us up and running again, but we did it without the loss of a single post.
I am most eager to prevent it happening again.
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