Some images broken when moving board to root

[Newmomsforum]

Hi Guys

I recently decided to move my forums from http://www.domain.com/forums to the root of the site (eg. http://www.domain.com).

I've updated the settings in my admincp / Site Name / URL / Contact Details however some of the image paths (eg any of the images residing in images/icons/ are still prefixing the image path with the old url).

Any ideas? Have I missed a setting somewhere?

Cheers

Mark

[Wayne Luke]

You can update the path for individual post icons in the Icon Manager under Post Icons -> Post Icon Manager.

[Newmomsforum]

Just to expand on my last post, in my page source I see the path seems to be being set by:

set variable for IMGDIR_MISC =

Any ideas what controls the file path quoted within this variable?

Cheers

Mark

[Newmomsforum]

You can update the path for individual post icons in the Icon Manager under Post Icons -> Post Icon Manager.

Thanks Wayne, that seemed to fix it but was this the only way or could I change the variable as detailed above?

Cheers

[Wayne Luke]

For the Post Icons, you need to change it in the post icon manager.

var IMGDIR_MISC = "images/misc";

This is very specific for the Javascript that controls things like the images for collapsing sections and other miscellaneous images shown and hidden by user actions.

[Newmomsforum]

Hmm, OK.. looks like my issue is slightly bigger than originally thought as there are still multiple references to my old directory structure in the source.

Does VB Cache the image paths in the Database anywhere?

Anyway to 'flush' these out.

If I removed the file path in the main settings I'm unsure where else VB is grabbing this info from

Cheers

Mark

[roots549]

I'm in the exact same boat.

Playstationworlds.com, just about every post icon is not showing up. I have updated the path from the previous /forums/images, to the correct /images, within the post icons manager, but that seems to only help new posts.

Those blank images are being pulled by some command, I need to find it a fix it, so it no longer looks for a fourms/images directory that no longer exists.

thanks
eric

[roots549]

solved.

I used the find and replace tool, "/forums/images" replaced with "/images"

No idea which files I changed, in templates, but that took care of it.

[Wayne Luke]

By default all images referenced by vBulletin use either the image path stylevars under Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> Stylevars (on All Style Options dropdown) or relative paths expecting to find the images in the images subdirectory of your forums.

Certain addons and styles will rename these and you would then have to edit the paths when you move the forums from one directory to another.