FidoSysop said
Question, is your blog running a different wordpress installation than your forum? Reason I ask is the blog is not encrypted, seems strange.
Same WordPress installation on everything I run. Blog, Forum, Museum, and Store are all different websites.
OK gotcha.. So you have your blog in the hosting root, and your forum in a subdomain. Guess that’s OK to run two separate wordpress installations. But I tried that with a web-bbs once and ran into problems such as you are experiencing.
Personally I would run a single wordpress installation for the blog and forums. Sometimes simplicity is best.
FidoSysop said
OK gotcha.. So you have your blog in the hosting root, and your forum in a subdomain. Guess that’s OK to run two separate wordpress installations. But I tried that with a web-bbs once and ran into problems such as you are experiencing.Personally I would run a single wordpress installation for the blog and forums. Sometimes simplicity is best.
They used to be part of the same site and it caused all sorts of problems for the whole site. The whole reason why they’re separate is because they didn’t work well together.
patrick182 said
FidoSysop said
OK gotcha.. So you have your blog in the hosting root, and your forum in a subdomain. Guess that’s OK to run two separate wordpress installations. But I tried that with a web-bbs once and ran into problems such as you are experiencing.Personally I would run a single wordpress installation for the blog and forums. Sometimes simplicity is best.
They used to be part of the same site and it caused all sorts of problems for the whole site. The whole reason why they’re separate is because they didn’t work well together.
And it don’t work well this way either.
If your running cPanel that subdomain has a root domain path that could be a problem. And www.forum.website.com really should be just forum.website.com in my opinion. www is only an alias but it looks good on a root domain. Never seen a www subdomain before, though it should work i guess.
Yellow Swordfish said
The other question was regarding the htaccess changes…
I PM’d you, Mr Papa and Ike with all of the info you need.
FidoSysop said
patrick182 said
FidoSysop said
OK gotcha.. So you have your blog in the hosting root, and your forum in a subdomain. Guess that’s OK to run two separate wordpress installations. But I tried that with a web-bbs once and ran into problems such as you are experiencing.Personally I would run a single wordpress installation for the blog and forums. Sometimes simplicity is best.
They used to be part of the same site and it caused all sorts of problems for the whole site. The whole reason why they’re separate is because they didn’t work well together.
And it don’t work well this way either.
If your running cPanel that subdomain has a root domain path that could be a problem. And www.forum.website.com really should be just forum.website.com in my opinion. www is only an alias but it looks good on a root domain. Never seen a www subdomain before, though it should work i guess.
Worked fine for years until last week when I added HTTPS to the domain.
Yellow Swordfish said
So – looks like you did not update the forum permalink. I have done that.
This fixed the problem! Thank you!
Strangely, I clicked “Update Forum Permalink” early on in this discussion and nothing changed. May I ask how you were able to change it?
Glad you got it fixed.
Any protocol change requires the forum page relinked. Https can be challenging but it’s not difficult to master.
you would click on that button… it would update and show https for the url… mabye browser cache involved as well.. who knows…
glad you are back in business…
I am guessing you did not update it again after you changed the sites base urls in the WP General Settings. WordPress, as such, did not know you wanted SSL urls before that.