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    Posted: 06 May 2003 at 11:57am

Using 7.01

The auto-email sent to new members contains a link to the forum. The forum url ends with .../forum, instead of .../forum/default.asp

A url ending with  .../forum leads to an error page. Is it just my server? We get an error without default.asp

Or is the full address getting cut off in the auto-email because it's too long?

 
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set your server to use default.asp for startpage, then it works:)
The spelling mistakes has been inserted automatically of consideration to the people who find a great pleasure to search for it
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Thanks for the idea, but I don't have access to the server settings.

Can I revise the code so it includes default.asp in the welcome email message?

 
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figure out what the startpage is for your server and add that page with a redirect to the default.asp

or open register.asp
search for
strTxtEmailForumAt & " " & strForumPath
and add
&"/default.asp"
to the end of that line
so it reads:
strTxtEmailForumAt & " " & strForumPath&"/default.asp"
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Thank you ljamal for the instructions.

Editing the code worked.

But I'm also curious, can you explain how to do the first option?: "figure out what the startpage is for your server and add that page with a redirect to the default.asp"

 
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Most servers are configured to have a page name that is configured as the default page for a directory. With an ASP server it's usually default.asp or index.asp or with ASP.NET default.aspx or index.aspx. This is the page that your web server will try to find if you do not specify a specific page such as in:
http://www.longbox.com/
with this server (my web site) the server is configured to go to default.asp so
http://www.longbox.com/ is actually http://www.longbox.com/default.asp

If your web server is not defaulting to default.asp the forums then most likely it's index.asp. Just call or email your web host to find out for sure. You may even be able to get then to change it. Once you find out what it is just create a file with the filename. Open the file and then write:
<% Response.Redirect "default.asp" %>
and it will redirect from filename.asp to default.asp
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain that to a novice like me. I get it now, and will follow-up with the server administrator.

 
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