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Old January 27th, 2013, 11:27 AM   #1 (permalink)
BobHarbison
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Forum Integration with 2 Domains

OK, now that I've got one gallery working and integrated properly, I'm working on a different site (I own about 6 licenses).

This one is a bit trickier. For SEO purposes, I chose to have the gallery use a different domain than the forum. It's been that way for literally years, and at this point I'd really prefer not to change it. In fact, that's not a viable option from my perspective.

They're both on the same server of course, so it's accessing the database just fine and works in that respect. I did the integration this morning, and the stylesheets all look good now.

The only problem I've found is the navigation tabs.

The forum URL is: gardenforums.com
GardenForums

The gallery URL is: gardenpics.com
Garden Photo Gallery - GardenPics.com Photo Gallery

When I use the tabs in the forum, they work properly, and get me to the gallery, even though it's a different URL.

However, there's no going back. The tabs in the gallery are all defaulting to gardenpics.com instead of gardenforums.com for the start of the url, and so when you click "forum" for example, you get a 404. I'm guessing it's using relative addresses?

Is there a way to correct this? Everything else seems to be fine, but if the tabs won't work, it's no good.

I'm also not sure whether this is a PP or VB issue. Since it's using VB headers, it may be outside of PP's control?
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