Special Forum

Special Forum is a special forum board which is separate from the usual forum application. For example you may want to create special forum called “Classifieds” separate from regular current Discussion Board.

FIRST METHOD:

Manual folder duplication. you need to duplicate content of

/intranet/forum/

/interface_default/forum/

/interface_xxxx/forum/

and rename it to

/intranet/[codename]/

/interface_default/[codename]/

/interface_xxxx/[codename]/

[codename] = special forum name (without bracket)

xxxx = main custom made VI

SSH/FTP transfer should be performed in BINARY MODE NOT TEXT MODE

SECOND METHOD

by creating symbolic link

with name “[codename]” pointing to the directory “forum”. This is actually much better solution as “[codename]” code will be always up-to-date whenever main “forum” is updated.

To create this “symbolic link” you need to log in to the server by ssh, go to “intranet” directory and execute the command:

ln -s forum [codename]

“ln” is a command for creating a link, “-s” is a key saying that it should be a symbolic link, “forum” is a target where this link will point, and finally “forsale” is a link name. You can do the same for VI folder. I’ve done this in “interface_default”.

WARNING! Be careful when deleting such “links” by FTP. If you now delete “forsale” folder by FTP, it will delete all content in original “forum” folder. You can safely delete link by logging in by ssh and deleting it from there (using either “unlink” command or Midnight Commander “mc”).

REPLACE [codename] with special forum name without bracket.