any way to keep joomla message board with new wordpress site?

[theresident]

Hi,

My site https://www.theresident.net is built with Joomla. I have built a new WordPress site for it, which I’m very excited about, but I would like to keep the Joomla message board (created with Community Builder and Fireboard) available as a link off the WordPress site.

Is there a way to do this, maybe by moving the old Joomla site into it’s own folder or something?

Any help would be great, thanks!

[Rev. Voodoo]

CReating mor ethan one thread will just lead to your threads being deleted….which will make it harder to get help

Anyway….if you want the wordpress site to be the main one…put that site in the root

If you want the joomla site to link off of WP, move joomla to a new folder

you definitely can’t run both from root

[theresident]

Sorry RVoodoo! I wasn’t clear in my first post and I really don’t want to create more clutter here because I appreciate the help immensely. So thank you!!!

So if I move all my Joomla files to a new folder, say called “forum” or something, how will that affect all the URLS for the site? The Joomla site is currently running ARTIOSef so it creates SEO URLs.

Thank you sooo much again for any help and I apologize for the conflicting threads!

[theresident]

Hey RVoodoo – quick question, if you can help that’d be amazing.

I did what you suggested and moved joomla to a new folder. The pages seems to work but what happens is when you click around in the site, the URLS all start leaving out the folder name.

In other words if you go here to my Joomla site: https://www.theresident.net/share/?option=com_content&Itemid=140&id=86&task=view

And then click on anything there, the “share” gets left out of the URL. If I can get this site to remember the “share” in the URL, I believe I’m all set.

Do you know where in the code I need to place that? ANY HELP WOULD BE AMAZING! I’ll gladly add you to my new blogroll if you can help me. ??

[Rev. Voodoo]

sooo….your joomla is in a folder called share?

unfortunately….I don’t know crap about joomla anymore…

I dumped it quite some time ago as WP made more sense to me….

And if I’m seeing things correctly, it looks like this is a joomla issue? I know if I was moving a wordpress install around and was having issues with parts of url being left off…..I’d investigate my .htaccess/permalinks settings

Does joomla have anything similar to that? Permalink rewrite of some sort?

edit-I just noticed you mentioned a plugin taking care of your url’s….is there some way to reset that plugin or something?

[theresident]

Yeah, I am so over JOOMLA, can’t stand it – cannot wait for it to be done but unfortunately my forumers don’t want the forum to die, so I want to just keep the forum there for them as a link off my new wordpress site. I’m hunting around now for some sort of permalink action in joomla and will get back to you – thanks for the lead!!

[theresident]

This is what the .htaccess looks like – any ideas where a “share” might go?

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 9975 2008-01-30 17:02:11Z ircmaxell $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 – 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##

#####################################################
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
#
# The line just below this section: ‘Options +FollowSymLinks’ may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url’s. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
#
#####################################################

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

#
# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

# Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)
########## Begin – 3rd Party SEF Section
############# Use this section if you are using a 3rd party (Non Joomla! core) SEF extension – e.g. OpenSEF, 404_SEF, 404SEFx, SEF Advance, etc
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional – see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
#
########## End – 3rd Party SEF Section
#RewriteBase/

########## Begin – Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End – Joomla! core SEF Section

########## Begin – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit attempts to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[Rev. Voodoo]

Where’d that .htaccess come from? I think I may see what could be causing issues…tho I’m not sure how to fix…

That .htaccess contains the stuff for both joomla and WordPress…. which I bet is confusing something (I’m not an expert in this area)

But….you should only have WP stuff in your wordpress folder (or root…I think that’s where your WP is)

The WP portion of htaccess is obvious as its marke with that BEGIN/END

the rest of that file contains joomla stuff, and should probably only be in the joomla folder…

do you have an htaccess in your joomla folder?

[theresident]

Yeah, this is the one from the joomla folder. That’s bizarre – somehow they got combined.

There has to be somehow to just insert “share” on the URLs…

So now I have an .htaccess at my root that only has the WordPress info in it, and this is what my .htaccess file in my joomla (share) folder looks like:

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 9975 2008-01-30 17:02:11Z ircmaxell $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 – 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##

#####################################################
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
#
# The line just below this section: ‘Options +FollowSymLinks’ may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url’s. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
#
#####################################################

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

#
# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

# Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)
########## Begin – 3rd Party SEF Section
############# Use this section if you are using a 3rd party (Non Joomla! core) SEF extension – e.g. OpenSEF, 404_SEF, 404SEFx, SEF Advance, etc
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional – see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
#
########## End – 3rd Party SEF Section
#RewriteBase/

########## Begin – Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End – Joomla! core SEF Section

########## Begin – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit attempts to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits