Apologies for the dumbo query - own a largish free board, but sadly I am not tech minded at all - a PhpBB whizz in the USA generally was able to quickly sort things for us over many years, but he has gone totally AWOL right now, and is not answering emails. Maybe he is ill .... not sure?
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. A heavily viewed and visited thread, and needs to be sorted ASAP. I have zero knowledge of the board back end, or how anything works sadly.
Very stupidly, I deleted a long thread with 100,000s of views when very tired at 3am, that has many links pointing to it from all over the world, many of which are external, and those I cannot access or alter, so need to create a fast workaround of some kind.
This is the deleted thread - anyone clicking on the many direct links to it now gets a 'PAGE NOT FOUND - TOPIC DOES NOT EXIST' message, as can be seen -
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=97479
I have re-created that thread laboriously, as another totally different URL, as it appears back-ups were not being done, or were not accessible to re-create the original - is it possible to somehow redirect anyone clicking on that original thread, so they land on the new URL?
With my normal websites that is possible, but sadly have absolutely no idea how phpBB works for things like that. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Or better still, can the original php?t=97479 be re-created as a new active link once again, and I can then just post the relevant data back into that. That would be greatly preferred, I guess.
Thanks so much in advance to anyone who can assist! I'd have guessed it was a pretty simple matter?
admin [at] stampboards.com
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. A heavily viewed and visited thread, and needs to be sorted ASAP. I have zero knowledge of the board back end, or how anything works sadly.
Very stupidly, I deleted a long thread with 100,000s of views when very tired at 3am, that has many links pointing to it from all over the world, many of which are external, and those I cannot access or alter, so need to create a fast workaround of some kind.
This is the deleted thread - anyone clicking on the many direct links to it now gets a 'PAGE NOT FOUND - TOPIC DOES NOT EXIST' message, as can be seen -
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=97479
I have re-created that thread laboriously, as another totally different URL, as it appears back-ups were not being done, or were not accessible to re-create the original - is it possible to somehow redirect anyone clicking on that original thread, so they land on the new URL?
With my normal websites that is possible, but sadly have absolutely no idea how phpBB works for things like that. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Or better still, can the original php?t=97479 be re-created as a new active link once again, and I can then just post the relevant data back into that. That would be greatly preferred, I guess.
Thanks so much in advance to anyone who can assist! I'd have guessed it was a pretty simple matter?
admin [at] stampboards.com
Statistics: Posted by ozstamps — Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:45 am
