Can anyone PLEASE help me with this? The old forum address works fine for viewing entries, but when users try to sign in they get a blank screen. Sorry to be a whiner, and I really appreciate the functionality of the bridge, but this is a big problem! Thanks,

Paul

Really, can anyone answer this?? I would think that anyone who is had a working forum before using the bridge, and now has an unwrapped, bridged forum would face this issue. The .htaccess redirect won't work because you lose the css. Anyone?

Thanks,
Paul

Hi, can anybody answer this? Is there a way to redirect the old forum address to the new bridged, unwrapped forum without losing the css?

Thanks,
Paul

Sorry, but I spoke too soon. I put the following code in the htaccess file:


The old forum redirected to the new forum, but stripped the theme so that the forum shows up with a white background and no images. I also tried it using the address http://www.viajeria.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=139, thinking that maybe it was an issue with the Artio JoomSEF URL. Same result.

What's up with that? Needless to say I removed it. Any idea what could be causing the problem? Thanks a lot.

UPDATE: I asked my hosting company for help, and here's the reply: Since you are redirecting http://viajeria.com/Foro-de-viajes to a new
 location, your style sheet cannot be loaded from
 http://viajeria.com/Foro-de-viajes/Themes/default/style.css?rc3.  This
 will need to be moved to the new /foro directory and called as
 http://viajeria.com/foro/style.css?rc3.

I tried that and it didn't work, I assume because of the peculiarities of Joomla and the bridge component. Any other suggestions? Should I try copying the Themes folder to the main Joomla folder, or to the component folder? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: OK, I think I understand the issue, but not the solution. Since the old folder, Foro-de-viajes is being redirected to the new forum, when the bridged forum tries to access the css file in the Foro-de-viajes folder, this request is being redirected as well. So I guess possible solutions would be to:

1) create a new folder with the SMF forum, and configure the bridge to draw from that folder. Then you could redirect Foro-de-viajes using the .htaccess file. I tried changing the folder name on the server and in the bridge configuration and had the same css problem.

--or--
2) Move just the CSS file and hack the bridge component code so that the css is retrieved from there.

Thoughts? I'd a beginner when it comes to coding (accounting degree), so I appreciate any help with how to make this happen! Thanks a lot.

Paul

Hello,

I've had the bridge installed for the last few months (version 2.0.2) with Joomla 1.0.11 and SMF 1.1RC3. Everything was ok until I tried to install JRE Cache this morning. The theme disappeared. I had some other problems as well, so I re-installed my site, but the theme is still gone. Any suggestions as to steps to follow to fix this? The forum is at http://www.viajeria.com/foro/index.php for your reference. Thanks very much.

UPDATE: I realized that the problem was the code that I had put into the htaccess file to redirect the forum, not the cache install. So now I still have the problem with how to redirect my old forum, but not THIS problem.
Cheers,
Paul

Hi all,

I installed the bridge (version 2.0.2) a few months ago and the forum on my web site is working fine. The problem is, I have the new address, http://www.viajeria.com/foro/index.php, connected to the home page, but people are still entering from the old address www.viajeria.com/Foro-de-viajes. Obviously this is a problem in the search engines because of duplicate content, but it's also a problem because users can not sign in on the old page - when they enter their username and password, they get a blank screen.

I'd like people coming to the old address to be redirected to the new forum. The problem is that the index file in the old forum is also used in the new one, so I can't put a meta tag refresh. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? Please be specific if you don't mind, I'm a bit technically challenged!

Thanks very much in advance,
Paul
www.viajeria.com

Hi, I installed community builder a few months ago, and am using the JSMF bridge from Joomlahacks, Joomla version 1.0.11 and cb version 1.0.2. I think this may have been happening for a while, but I've just noticed it when I tried to update a profile.

Basically, when I log in and try to edit my profile in the front end, or try to edit someone else's profile in the back end, the administrator user name (viajer5) is automatically overwritten in the user name space (usuario on my site - it's in Spanish), and inserts a new password in the password space (contrasena), which I suppose is the administrator password. This makes it impossible to update a profile.
When I updated someone's profile from the backend, she was unable to log in afterward and I had to reset the password.  Actually, since the user name and password are on the second tab, if you update information on the first tab like address, country, etc. and try to save it, a window pops up that says "Please confirm which user you are changing the password for" with a list of various names. This is obviously frustrating and confusing for users.

Has anyone had this problem before? Thanks, I'm a little lost as to what to do.

Best,
Paul
www.viajeria.com
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