[admin (no pm's please)]

If you are using your own domain name to genuinely point to our domains. e.g. if you have gone through us for this service and changed your DNS settings rather than using some form of redirect, then changes are about to take place.

First the good news, this service was originally rapidly "bolted on" to the system and always ended up creating problems when we introduced new features like template editing. As we are about to introduces a complete web page solution integrated into the forums, the time came to recode the own domain system to make it much more integrated with the way the system works.

Now the not so good news. Some people with own domains have had the address of their forum set to "www." and the "www." address is not for consistency always going to be used for the web page side of the system.

Therefore if you have been accessing your forum on:

www.mydomain.com

you would now need to access it on:

mydomain.com

We apologise for any inconvenience, but this is a needed step to help all the new features function smoothly.

[Symon]

When does this go live ?

As i just accessed my site on the old www.farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk and farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk

[admin (no pm's please)]

All I can say is soon.

[admin (no pm's please)]

I think tomorrow morning now. Still working through a few things

[admin (no pm's please)]

I think tomorrow morning now. Still working through a few things I spotted another little place where things can be tidied a bit.

[Symon]

No problem did receive the mail shot about this aswell.

So to sum it up for the confussed

instead of

www.farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk which took you to the forum

now it would be

farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk which will lead to the portal // webpage look

[admin (no pm's please)]

eh the other way round www takes you always to the portal now. Or will do.

[Symon]

[Danny M]

so is this what i had problems too with like the karma, post reply and news fader etc on www.manunitedfansforum.co.uk

[admin (no pm's please)]

The manu domain now seems to work

The own domain stuff is now in and does seem to be working okay generally, but it does need a little while to see that it is stable.

Notably some of the new web page code is now being called, as the front page of a forum will be able to be either the old portal page or a web page and the web page is checked first.

[Symon]

just checked mine and all seems to be working ok

www.farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk

Opps wait one a few problems have occurred.

[admin (no pm's please)]

There were a few glitches

Differences in php versions cause one glitch.

if ($a == 2)

and

if ($a ==3)

can both be true at the same time! would you believe it.

Also some poorly conceived code designed to protect own domains from an incorrect update, prevented the name of the forum in its own database being updated away from starting "www" if that was how it had been set This lead to some pages heading for the portal wrongly.

Oh and certain formats of domain names also got mishandled

This sort of thing was why this update is being done before the web page stuff, despite delaying it as some potential issues were found, I was not expecting this to go totally smoothly.

[Danny M]

ok

thanks everything works now

and is there no way then, so that when you click on my domian name it will actually take you straight to the forum instead of the component page

or could i edit the component page

[Wills]

Hmmm

Well I haven't been able to use the portal view on my site due to a glitch that we couldn't fix. see here http://my-local-poker.com/index.php?component=indexpage

Therefore when my site defaults from www. to the portal view ...well you can imagine what users are saying with that grey background

Is there a way to just divert the www.my-local-poker.com to my-local-poker.com

Plus my Admin page access link is not working

HELP

[admin (no pm's please)]

admin link should now be ok.

As of tomorrow the www link can go to a page of your own total design, which should give you more control of the background.

But you could already have edited the LATEST template to fix the background.

[Wills]

[Wills]

In viewtopic_body.tpl These links also divert to the portal view

<a href="{U_INDEX}"
<a href="{U_VIEW_FORUM}"

[Symon]

[Wills]

[admin (no pm's please)]

Can you give a link to where the issue can be seen?

[Wills]

[admin (no pm's please)]

Let me see if I can fix that.

[admin (no pm's please)]

Actually whilst this was an issue earlier today, both those links seem to take me to the post on the forum currently.

[Wills]

[admin (no pm's please)]

try again now.

[Wills]

[admin (no pm's please)]

Good to hear as said elsewhere there was little practical choice than to risk some issues with own domain users, given the overriding benefits being introduced, but we are still a lot happier with the issues be resolved reasonably.