Quick Fix for Broken Wiki Links

[haxhaxhax]

Hi everyone --

I figured I'd share my quick fix for resolving the old Wiki links in some really awesome threads on the forum. It turns out there is an amazing amount of resources on the Wiki but since some of the threads have the older Wiki page link where the host is different. The way I resolved this is by installing the Google Chrome plugin called "Requestly" which can be found at: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...lkcekpdkpa .. after installing it, click the icon in the toolbar and then "Open App".

Next, I created a custom rule by first clicking "Rules" on the left and then clicking "New Rule" in the top right. On the rule page, I replace "degreeforum.wikia.com" with "degreeforum.miraheze.org" and then click save.

Now each time you click a forum link to the wiki, if there is a corresponding page matching the original link then it will automatically load. I attached 2 screenshots for guidance.

Note to admin(s):
An alternative to fixing the links site wide would be to directly modify the database table "mybb_posts" where the column "message" is like degreeforum.wikia.com. You could probably do this using an update statement like:

Code:

UPDATE mybb_posts SET message = replace(message,'degreeforum.wikia.com','degreeforum.miraheze.org') WHERE message LIKE '%degreeforum.wikia.com%';

I'd suggest doing it on a backup first

-M

[cookderosa]

I'm glad you figured that out and I'm thrilled people will be able to find the links.

I, on the other hand, will go cry in my tea for being so exceptionally tech-illiterate that I don't even have a question.