How to update broken INTERNAL forum links in your posts

Revell-Fan

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If you have inserted a cross-reference to another thread or post inside this forum this link does not work after the latest migration. You'll have to replace the link to make it work again.

There are two ways to do so:


1. Copy & paste (traditional):

Look up the target post / thread, copy the target link, edit the old post, delete the old link and insert the new link or simply overwrite the old link with the new one.


2. The cool way (fancy):

Go to the post containing the broken link.

Click the "Edit" button at the bottom of the post:

index.php


Click on the text data of the link in question and hit the "Edit" button:

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Now you can update the link by changing the text in the URL field.

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Here you can insert the new link target using Copy & Paste. However, I found a very elegant and much easier way to do so.


The basic structure of the broken links looks like this:



To update it to the new platform requirements you simply add "s" to the "http" and "index.php?" before "threads":

https://www.zealot.com/index.php?threads/galactica-6551-2-the-second-chance.180062/


To make things even easier just copy "https://www.zealot.com/index.php?" and paste it over"http://www.zealot.com/" of the old link address.


SAVE and DONE! :)
 
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