newLISP Fan Club is Moving!

[itistoday]

You mean email notifications? The domain hasn't been pointed to the new host yet. That will probably start tomorrow. Once it's propagated, I'll get the email working. Or, that's the plan at least!

Looking forward to it!

[newdep]

it moved ;-)

[Ryon]

Woohoo! We made it!

I'll start making those promised improvements, and open the forum to new users soon. Right now, I'm going to celebrate this small success by not doing anything!

[itistoday]

BTW... there's the issue of "SEO suicide", which seems to have been committed with this switch.

Search Google for "newlisp" plus some topic and you'll find links to the old forum, which will all take you to 404 pages.

Perhaps this could be remedied with a simple redirect script? You might even be able to do it with some .htaccess magic (mod_rewrite), so long as the post IDs match.

[Ryon]

Try it now, itistoday. Should work!

BTW, if you would like the nLFC to have better search ratings, how about putting a link on your webpage to our new web address, newlispfanclub.alh.net

[Tim Johnson]

OK.
1) The forum is no longer setting a cookie on my firefox browser
2) Still no option to subscribe (email notification)
Or perhaps I'm not seeing it.
Please advise.
Maybe we need a forum written in Newlisp? :) Just kidding.
tim

[itistoday]

Try it now, itistoday. Should work!

Hmm.. all the links I'm finding are still resulting in 404's:

http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/viewfo ... opicdays=0
http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/search ... e8b7a17849
http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=16513

BTW, if you would like the nLFC to have better search ratings, how about putting a link on your webpage to our new web address, newlispfanclub.alh.net

I've linked to it from our blog, but I don't think the Espionage page or the Tao Effect home page are places that make sense to put a link to these forums...

[Ryon]

Tim, I'm still working on it. Actually no. Today's Sunday, and I'm goofing off! ;-)

I'm not sure if I can make redirects for individual posts, itistoday. If someone knows how to do this as in: 'Redirect 301 /newlisp/phpbb/index.php http://newlispfanclub.alh.net' in a .htaccess file, I'll plug it in! The good news is that the newlispfanclub.alh.net name gives us room to grow, and should be stable just about forever. Unless someone wants to buy the newlispfanclub.org or .net domain name for us. And if you do, you can still point it to my server.

I don't think the search engines much care where they get the links from, they just count the number that they find. We don't need many, but two or three more would be nice. I plan to have more links to the community from this page too, soon. (But not exactly today.)

[itistoday]

I'm not sure if I can make redirects for individual posts, itistoday. If someone knows how to do this as in: 'Redirect 301 /newlisp/phpbb/index.php http://newlispfanclub.alh.net' in a .htaccess file, I'll plug it in! The good news is that the newlispfanclub.alh.net name gives us room to grow, and should be stable just about forever. Unless someone wants to buy the newlispfanclub.org or .net domain name for us. And if you do, you can still point it to my server.

This would be done through mod_rewrite not Redirect (which is mod_alias).

You simply have a rewrite rule that uses regular expressions to extract the id numbers from the requested URL and then redirect the user to the other URL.

Code: Select all

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule /viewtopic.php?t=([0-9]+) http://newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Note, that is probably not at all what it should be (I just made that up off the top of my head), but that's something like it.

More info on mod_rewrite:

Examples: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Details: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

[Tim Johnson]

Looks like cookies are being set now. Thanks Ryon. I know this has
been a lot of work. I hope you are paid well. I also see that there is a
"notify me" option default to on.
Good work!
tim

[Ryon]

I did make a lot of promises during the past couple of weeks. Hope I'm catching up on a few of them!

[tomtoo]

hey ryon,

I did finally remember my own address, but when the forum sent me a new password, I never received it.

really, it's ok; this username is fine.

[itistoday]

I did make a lot of promises during the past couple of weeks. Hope I'm catching up on a few of them!

Thread-reply notifications still don't work for me, is this not yet fixed or is it just me?

[hilti]

It's the same issue to me. Unfortunately there's no RSS feed, too.

Maybe we should build a newLISP/Dragonfly based forum. ;-)

Cheers
Hilti

[m35]

Since the 3 things I really hoped to see in the forum (RSS, login on front page, skip 'you are logged in' page) weren't implemented, along with no reply notifications, I figured Ryon was still in the process of setting things up.

Any status updates Ryon? :)