Since moving to a new server and changing Control Panel (to directadmin from cpanel) I've managed to set the domain "pointers" up differently and so this problem has now gladly gone away.
So, not the typical solution...But all domains simply point to the main domain, rather than act as pure redirects.
And it fails to load my sites CSS at all so the user sees a giant mess of a page infront of them.
Previously, it was just the avatar was broken until they navigated the site and it resolved the correct url...Now, its more significant. The site CSS gets loaded correctly once they navigate away from the front page and it'll be fixed even when they go back to the front page because the address will be correct.
This fixes the duplicate URL problem...However, causes another. When the user attempts to login, it logs them in (shows it on the "Who's Online") but they arent properly logged in (it still shows the Username/Password box)...When they navigate the site, they are logged in properly then.
Obviously, most users rely on seeing that "logged in" module to understand they are logged in...So you can see the problem.
The problem when I add that is...even though it repairs the problem...It causes one obvious (and I'm pretty sure possibly other yet noticed issues) problem...
Since people come to the site from the .com/.net/.org/.co.uk, they have and do link images from the site on other sites, using any of the above extensions...So by putting that in htaccess, it kills any images that are hotlinked from the site that aren't using .net...It also kills any images in the forum/within the site that i've used the .com (or any other extension) for instead of .net
I'm not sure if its possible to fix that and permit usage of the other extensions...
Before I actually do this - I should state that I have been running the past versions of JSMF with no problem and that this problem has only now just occured as I've upgraded to RC3..
My site (joomla as a whole) has never had this problem before, only now when I've upgraded to RC3...
So, is this meant to be happening, or is it a known error or anything?
I've installed this plugin and it has a Signature field on the Users Profile...However, there is no where for the user to actually change their signature? (unless of course they use the SMF Profile Info plugin)
Maybe I misunderstood...I thought this would allow the user to change their signature via CB and show it on the profile...Or is it just to show the sig on the profile at the moment?
What I meant when I said it would be good to stop people from touching their SMF Profiles, I meant I would personally prefer them not to see all those options that SMF Profile has. The current plugin, of course, just opens up their SMF Profile and allows them at the bottom of it to change their signature, but it has all the other SMF options - Which to me are irrelevant and only cause confusion for the user.
The way I see it, SMF isn't what users are getting when using JSMF...They are getting Joomla with an awesome forum.
Yes, of course it is SMF and everyone knows that (by the credit link at the bottom crediting the forum to Simple Machines)...However, SMF "user" control/functionality should be disabled because they shouldn't be accessing SMF directly.
They should be controlling the way their profile looks, avatar looks, general posting aesthetics etc etc via Joomla/CB...
This has obviously been acheived beautifully by Wolverine's bridge...They login to Joomla, their avatar is displayed from their Joomla/CB profile - When users want to see someone's profile, they see the CB profile.
That to me is complete functionality and for me personally (as all this post is illustrating of course) that is perfect. The only missing feature for me is the signature administration directly through the CB profile...and having the forum stats (post count etc.) on the profile. You of course mostly excellently fixed that.
I just feel personally, to maintain cohesion...Having signature customisation through their profile (pref through their CB "Update your Profile"/Profile Admin) would complete it, completely disabling any visual/direct interaction with SMF's own, seperate profile configuration (of course its still happening...but it would be cool if it happens without the layman knowing it...so, the typical/average forum user is controlling all the most important aspects for them (aesthetics) through their official profile (CB).
This post was unnecessarly long, sorry about that!...But I thought I'd give it some time since you've both taken the time to address my posts more than once!
The numbering is really just a crude, down and dirty ordered list I threw in the SMF Posts plugin. Unfortunately, this is hard-coded in, and not elegant. I may be able to add some CSS options to it so you can set this in your Joomla template's CSS file. Let me know.
Ugh... the signature thing! I'd let that slip due to a crazy work week. If the plugins are stable enough at this point (let me know, Wolverine), I can go in and play with a signature plugin. Regarding not touching the user profile... that's kinda hard to do, when you want people to be able to alter signatures and so forth. Please explain exactly what you mean by not wanting members to access the forum profile at all.
Awesome Wolverine...Thank you Is there anyway to just have the Signature box from SMF profile appear on the Profile Tab/CB Profile Config...I mentioned it to Brat previously...It would be good to prevent users from touching the SMF profile completely and just allow them to change sigs.
On the SMF_Info plugin I am geting an error (whenever someone clicks on a Username to view the profile, the following box pops up)
Attached is a screenshot of the box.
This prevents anyone from viewing profiles, as it fails to load the page after it.
Perhaps its overly complicated to think about it I am unsure...But it would be an awesome feature to have. I am aware SMF have a plugin that deals with YouTube, but it majorly lacks any other plugins to help with other file formats/locations.
1) Separate signature plugin so that sig appears under the main CB profile image.
Awesome news =) Glad your undertaking this! One (more) request...Is it possible to have some styling options above/below the box? Like SMF Panel that appears above each post (bold, italic, size, colour etc etc.) so users can format their sig abit more?
If not, having the sig box alone is more than enough...Just it would be close to a complete feature-filled plugin with those options.
Just an update on this - SMF's official stance on Mod_Sec is to disable it completely. I wasn't aware of the little trick of putting a .htaccess in the forum dir and turning off mod_sec with it, for just the forum (I thought you had to turn off mod_sec completely for the site)...So this is what I've done and the problem has gone!
I don't mind mod_sec not governing the forum dir, just the rest of my Joomla site.
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