Factorio Forums

I assume that Factorio was a workshoped name and you originally wanted something close to minecraft, this is shown when you try to go to http://kovarex.com. I would suggest changing the page to point to http://www.factorio.com

This is being worked on.. later.

http://www.kovarex.com is redirected to https://forums.factorio.com/forum now.
(https://forums.factorio.com is now just alias for http://www.kovarex.com)

This page can be now used as https://forums.factorio.com so, the fact that it is hosted on kovarex.com can be hidden.
(Link to this topic as https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... p?f=7&t=44)

The problem is, when I enter this topic using this link: http://www.kovarex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44, it works as well
but all links are staying in the kovarex.com context, so when you came from this link, you will be using the kovarex.com for ever.

I have no experience with phpbb, and I tried to setup the absolute root path ($phpbb_root_path), to force the phpbb generate all links using not relative path, but absolute, but it doesn't as I would expect (it affects not only the link generation, but internal php include path as well).

If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, just let me know.

Well, here's an immediate problem: the forum is setting cookies for the kovarex.com domain, and then is surprised when it's not getting the cookies back on factorioforums.com. This makes it generate all links with the session id in them, which is not a good thing, but it beats the alternative of having it forget who's logged in as soon as a new page loads.

phpBB has a lot of old and dirty code in it, and following it around is not for the faint-hearted; I haven't really worked with it much, so couldn't tell you what settings to edit, but see if running its installer helps any (after making a backup to ensure you don't lose posts, of course). Or if you want to permanently transition, install a new phpBB on factorioforums.com and migrate the posts over from here? It all depends on how you want to go with this.

Ok, I resloved it by using .htaccess.

It is possible to use www.factorioforums.com/forum as well as www.factorioforums.com/wiki, and when using the old link,
in this form http://www.kovarex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44, it is redirected to www.factorioforums.com.

We plan on using just the factorioforums.com variant from now on everywhere.

In the phpBB admin control panel, go to Cookie Settings and change the domain. Also change the domain under Server Settings, just below it. That really should be all that's needed to change domains. Make sure your load balancer is directing traffic correctly as well. I don't know what software you're hosting with, but you want to be sure to use name based redirects.

Disclaimer: I've worked on more than a few phpBB (SMF, Drupal, others..) forums in my time.

Also, f1rst p0st!!

Valkor wrote:In the phpBB admin control panel, go to Cookie Settings and change the domain. Also change the domain under Server Settings, just below it. That really should be all that's needed to change domains. Make sure your load balancer is directing traffic correctly as well. I don't know what software you're hosting with, but you want to be sure to use name based redirects.

Disclaimer: I've worked on more than a few phpBB (SMF, Drupal, others..) forums in my time.

Also, f1rst p0st!!

Hi,
thanks for the advice, I already changed the cookie settings (I didn't know it is possible from the server settings, I downloaded some custom php script for that).