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I’m running the Discussion Forum Module 2.2.0 on ExpressionEngine 1.7.0 and want to know if it’s possible to place my forums further in the site structure than the at the site_url?

For example, http://www.mysite.com/dir1/forums instead of http://www.mysite.com/forums

Based on things I’ve read in the EE forums, I added

{exp:forum}

to the index template for for the dir1 template group.

Af first, everything looks like the forums. I get the forums landing page, but beyond that page, things get messy: threads don’t render, nor do tags on the member profile page, and some of the links point to the forum home as set on the module preference page (http://www.mysite.com/dir1/forums) while others point to http://www.mysite.com/forums.

Am I trying to do something I shouldn’t?

Hi Panchesco,

That should be possible. Which links in particular are not correct? I would try just setting the forum URL in the module preference page rather than using a template with {exp:forum} on it, unless you specifically need to run your forum through the regular template parser.

Setting the URL in the module preferences and not having a template with {exp:forum} gives me a 404 page.

Panchesco,

Ok. Here is how you would do it.

In your forum preferences for the Forum URL use

http://www.mysite.com/dir1/forums/

Remove the Forum Triggering Word

Now in your dir1 template group create a template called ‘forums’

It’s in here that you add {exp:forum}

Let us know if that works

Thanks! Looks like that does it.

Very glad to hear it. Please post again as needed.