Links to PlanetZ articles broken

[Ben Walker]

Hi,
I used to be able to link directly to a forum topic like this:
http://www.planetz.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29264

Now this link is giving me a 404 not found - I'm assuming that I'm now required to add the forum
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=29264 id as well as the topic.

Any idea when this might have happened - certainly sometime since June of this year.

John - do you know if this can be fixed? Or do I have to insert f=15 in my existing links to fix them?

Thanks,
Ben

[valis]

It would have probably happened with the update to phpbb3, as this is one of the changes with v3. There might be a way to translate it on the fly using rewrite mod in htaccess/apache but you'd probably have to dig that out of the phpbb guys or someone good with natural language rewrite mods to htaccess.

[Ben Walker]

Ah, yes, the problem is actually that I can't use this url
"http://www.planetz.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29264"
but must use this one instead:
"http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?t=29264"

Yes, valis you must be right - no longer phpBB2, but phpBB3, so old URL's no longer valid.

Simple enough to fix at my end....

Ben

[at0m]

The same goes for the RSS... all from forums.planetz.com for a month or so...

Oh right, for your modulars page that's quite a switch - all them patches and stuff linking here!

[Ben Walker]

Simple Find and replace has sorted it out very quickly.
Lots of other dead links though to old Creamware pages, etc, which do need tidying up.
It's a slow process....

Ben

[valis]

making more progress than scopedia atm