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CPPJ 
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Posted: 18 February 2003 at 7:30am |
I recieve e-mail notification of new postings ok, but when I click on the link to see them, all I get is a 404 error " the page cannot be displayed " etc.
Any idea why this should be and how I might fix it ?
Cheers.
PS. It's not on just my computer, and the URL to the forum is correct.
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michael
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Posted: 18 February 2003 at 10:07am |
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if the url to the forum, I mean the one within the email addres is correct and pointing to the location where your actual forum is you should not be getting a 404. Compare the URL with the one you would have manually going to the post.
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Posted: 18 February 2003 at 11:04am |
Only the ending is different, on the actual page it ends with : =2&PagePosition=1
And on the e-mail with : =2&ThreadPage=1
Any help ?
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Posted: 19 February 2003 at 6:30am |
On the email setup page you need to put in the correct URL to your forum, if this is incorrect the link in the emails won't point to the right place.
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Posted: 19 February 2003 at 7:40am |
Hi boRg,
yeah, was the first thing I checked, just double-checked and looks ok is : http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/forum I assume you don't include the default.asp part ?
As I mention above the link generated for the e-mails is the same as the page apart from the ending, is this what should happen, or should it be exactly the same as the page URL of the posting ?
If so, can you explain why it's generating this difference and how to stop it please ?
If it is normal, why doesn't it work ?
Cheers.
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Posted: 19 February 2003 at 1:11pm |
The ending should be different in each email.
If your email settings page reads:-
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/forum
Then it's not setup correctly, unless your cdomain name is mywebwsite.co.uk you need to change this to your own web sites domain name
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Posted: 19 February 2003 at 2:16pm |
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It has got my own websites' domain name, I was just using an example.
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Posted: 19 February 2003 at 2:21pm |
The link does have the correct ending, the only reason why you would get the 404 error is if the link is incorrectly setup.
Have a look at the begining part of the link when viewing topics on the forum, then match it against the link in the email, you may have done somthing like a spelling misstake or a comma instead of a dot. Ingnore the part after the ? it's the begining part of the link that you need to look at.
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