domain name hard-coded in theme

[splashdown]

Greets all,

Okay, so I've moved a forum (for a friend) from one domain to another, everything went fine but when accessing the forum from the new domain it's trying to load theme content from the old domain. I'm guessing this is extremely non-standard behavior for SMF,  probably caused by a rouge forum mod written by someone who didn't know what they were doing. The forum owner had MANY volunteers doing maintenance over the past 10 years, and has no idea of what might or might not have been done. Nothing exists of the old forum but the mysql database, it's running on a fresh install of SMF 1.1.19 on the new domain's webserver.

So my guess is the only way to fix this is to excise all instances of the old domain name out of the database from the mysql command line, yes?

Thanks in advance for any confirmation or denial of my guesses regarding this matter! 

[mashby]

What is repair_settings.php?That will likely be what you need.

[Kindred]

Also note...  If you are spending the time to recreate the forum, you should upgrade to 2.0.x since the 1.1.x line is sunset and will be end of life shortly

[splashdown]

repair_settings.php is a great tool but it doesn't modify bad stuff that shouldn't be in the database in the first place. 

And yes, once I repair the database (if that's at all possible) I will gleefully be upgrading to the 2.0 tree... 

[Kindred]

?? Repair bad stuff?

Repair_settings is a tool to repair the database connection and the paths for the forum. That is all. What "bad stuff" do you think it should remove?

[splashdown]

Well, somehow (and I have no idea how) the html that SMF is outputting has links to the previous domain name which hosted the forum, links of the type:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="hxxp://old-domain-name.com/forum/Themes/default/script.js?fin11"></script>

Those links are dead, so the appearance of the forum is all messed up theme-wise. It was not my intent to disrespect the repair_tools script, I merely sought to point out that it does not have the ability to purge those links, which is what I meant by "bad stuff" in the database.

[Arantor]

It doesn't have that ability for various complicated technical reasons.

You can do it from the admin panel, though I forget exactly where in 1.1 that is.

[mashby]

Yep...default URL is another setting that might not be in repair_settings. But in 1.1.x, it's here (put this on your new domain URL):

Code Select Expand

index.php?action=theme;sa=list
Reset Theme URLs and Directories

[splashdown]

Yep...default URL is another setting that might not be in repair_settings. But in 1.1.x, it's here (put this on your new domain URL):

Code Select Expand

index.php?action=theme;sa=list
Reset Theme URLs and Directories

Whoo-hoo, thanks that worked! I am now just as happy as though I were in my right mind...