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[nickw]

Hi Again all,

The main portal will be available at fsdeveloper.com by the end of today (we hope). Arno and I have done a major overhaul of scenerydesign.org and the various domain names:

Some information for you all:

fsmissions.org and fsmissions.net will redirect to fsdeveloper.com/missions portal simconnect.org and simconnect.net will redirect to fsdeveloper.com/simconnect portal scenerydesign.org will redirect to fsdeverloper.com/scenery.

So, essentially, each section - though under one whole forum - has it's own portal. (We will need more moderators!) This means that if you are interested only in one area, you can simply go to your section easily from the domain name.

Now... the missions and simconnect forums are on the new site, but we are still not 100% sure what sub categories you guys will want, so please let us know on THIS thread.

 

[jcboliveira]

How about a misc section to deal with FSUIPC, DirectX etc.

José

 

[rhumbaflappy]

Fsx

Hi Nick.

New forum looks great

FSX really needs a separate fourm dealing with Shp2Vec ( the Aces tool for creating vector scenery ). Another need might be for an FSX resample forum.

These will probably be the most heavily used terrain forums once FSX is selling.

Dick

 

[JonPatch]

Excellent initiative, guys! I look forward to contributing and learning.

Jon

 

[nickw]

How about a misc section to deal with FSUIPC, DirectX etc.

José

We'll get that setup.

Hi Nick.

New forum looks great

FSX really needs a separate fourm dealing with Shp2Vec ( the Aces tool for creating vector scenery ). Another need might be for an FSX resample forum.

These will probably be the most heavily used terrain forums once FSX is selling.

Dick

Great point Dick. We'll get that done. On a side note, will you email Arno and I, we would like to talk to you.

Excellent initiative, guys! I look forward to contributing and learning.

Jon

Thanks

 

[arno]

How about a misc section to deal with FSUIPC, DirectX etc.

I think most of that can go in the "Tools developers" section, doesn't it? Maybe we can use a special subforum for FSUIPC if there are a lot of questions about it.

FSX really needs a separate fourm dealing with Shp2Vec ( the Aces tool for creating vector scenery ). Another need might be for an FSX resample forum.

Check the scenery design section, I have already added that one before we relaunched the site .

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

I'd entirely forgotten you'd registered these,
and happened to find references this morning
when googling another domain.



Don't work -
Give Not Found error pages -
fsmissions.org - 404 error
fsmissions.net - 404 error
should redirect to fsdeveloper.com/missions portal

simconnect.org - 404 error
simconnect.net - 404 error
should redirect to fsdeveloper.com/simconnect portal



Does Work -
scenerydesign.org - redirects to main portal
should redirect to fsdeveloper.com/scenery portal.



Maybe point them to either the matching wiki page,
or alternatively, the matching forum discussion.



PS
For each of the above,
it'd be worth applying an .htaccess redirect
to ensure that they're prefixed by www.
This will prevent user login problems for
fsdeveloper.com versus www.fsdeveloper.com

Sample .htaccess redirect -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.fsdeveloper.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.fsdeveloper.com/$1 [L,R=301]

HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[arno]

Hi Paul,

Good catch. I will ask Nick to point them all the www.fsdeveloper.com. The portal idea we have scraped since then, so I think we better all point them to the main entrance of the site.

The htaccess file to prevent www.fsdeveloper.com and fsdeveloper.com trouble is also a good idea. I'll put that on the server later.