Been having trouble reaching the forums?

[daan]

Since my May 20th posting announcing some maintenance work, it seems that the forums have not been accessible at, specifically, this URL:
https://mapthematics.com/forums
Originally I believed this was due to aggressive caching on the part of browsers, something that had caused me a lot of trouble during the maintenance work. But further experimentation showed that that was not the case.

I’m still not sure what caused the problem, but I have a specific configuration in place now to force it to the complete URL:
https://mapthematics.com/forums/index.php

Apologies for any inconvenience.
— daan

[rschmunk]

If I click on the first link, I get sent to "https://mapthematics.com/forums/mapthematics/forums", which doesn't work.

[daan]

I’m traveling and will look into this when I get back. If I type in the URL as it appears, it redirects as intended. The actual link embedded in this Web page is the same as it appears; e.g., the markup is:

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[url]mapthematics/forums[/url]

And yet, if you ask the browser what the link is, it tells you the broken, doubly-expanded form.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

— daan

[Milo]

That's a relative link. Where it points to depends on where it's encountered.

For an absolute URL that points at the same location regardless of where it's encountered, you need to spell it out starting with the "http(s)://" part.

In-between, you can put a slash at the beginning of the URL, as in "/mapthematics/forums", which is still relative to the server it's encountered on, but absolute within that server.

That said, the correct URL appears to be [url]https://mapthematics.com/forums/[/url]? Not [url]https://mapthematics.com/mapthematics/forums/[/url].

(Also, for some reason, attempting to reply to a post doesn't work the same way in the Annoucements subforum as in other subforums? It quoted your post email-style, with > symbols before each line, instead of using a [quote] tag.)

[daan]

I’m embarrassed to say that I did not consider that the URL would be relative to the page that it is on. That does explain it.

— daan