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How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

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10 Jul 2009, 03:28

theillusioner

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How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Hello .. I've done some looking and some searching and some swearing and some hair pulling out (my own) and I cannot seem to find where the setting is that controls the link from my zen cart to my forums.

Currently, instead of doing this:
http://theillusioner.com/forums

When I click the 'forums' link on my store, it goes here:
http://theillusioner.com/store//forums/index.php

:oops:I'm pretty sure that I set it up wrong when I was configuring the store and now I'm trying to fix it.

Where do I work this magic?

I'm not overly technical but am not afraid to break open dreamweaver and change things if I need to do so.

Thanks so much in advance for any advice.

-The Illy

10 Jul 2009, 05:33

kobra

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

What is the entry in your configure.php file for this?

  define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/');

10 Jul 2009, 16:51

theillusioner

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Well .. I went poking and found this:

define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/home/theillusioner/theillusioner.com/forums')

Should I link it more directly with this: http://theillusioner.com/forums

10 Jul 2009, 22:08

kobra

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Should I link it more directly with this: http://theillusioner.com/forums

Quoted from the configure file - emphasis mine

// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)

So try the following:

define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', 'forums/');

11 Jul 2009, 01:40

theillusioner

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Okay .. I tried that and I really appreciate the help. I feel like I'm in the wrong thread now or is getting the forums link working considered customization? I don't want to get in trouble.

I can take this to another thread if I need to. The code suggestion didn't work as anticipated. I probably did something wrong although I thought all I did was copy over what was there with the new code. Now there's no link at all to the forums on the store site.

I don't know. Maybe I should just reinstall everything.

I have the forums at this URL:
http://theillusioner.com/forums/

I have the store at this URL:
http://theillusioner.com/store/

I have this in the configure.php file:

  define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', 'forums/');

//

:oops:

11 Jul 2009, 01:59

kobra

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

What version of phpbb do you have??

11 Jul 2009, 02:08

theillusioner

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Yeah, that would be helpful to know. Sorry for not including that previously.

phpBB 3.0.5

I believe that's the latest version. Did I miss something obvious?

11 Jul 2009, 02:11

kobra

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

Leave the configure as is for it is correct for where you have this but get this for phpbb3.x and review thread

DrByte's post #1
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111251

10 Dec 2010, 12:50

techknowmama

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Re: How to fix wrong URL for link to phpBB?

I had to define mine
define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', /../'phpbb/');
to get it to work properly on my site

if you are using godaddy you may have to do the same