So you're reading an old thread that has a link to an other old thread and you come across a link to another thread that you want to read. But lo and behold, you follow that link and you get
...like this one...
LIVE LINK: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/f.../320042-resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.html
Aaaaargh! Now what do you do?
Simple, you have to change the URL of the thread around a little in order to access it.
Step 1: Remove all the subfolders and replace with a subfolder named "threads".
But the page name (the last part of the URL) is still a problem. So now you have to ...
Step 2: Change the page's file name
Change it from...
...to this...
Now you've built a working URL
LIVE LINK: Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
Modifying the URL To A Specific Post On The Thread
If the "Error" URL contains a specific post on the thread and you would rather just go there than start at the beginning of the thread, the URL would modification method above would still be the same, but with additional parameters: page number and post identifier (not post number).
The following example is a direct link to post #63 (which has the identifier of 6840155) on page 4 of the thread used in the example above...
LIVE LINK: Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
...like this one...
Code:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/rebuildable-atomizer-systems/320042-resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.htmlLIVE LINK: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/f.../320042-resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.html
Aaaaargh! Now what do you do?
Simple, you have to change the URL of the thread around a little in order to access it.
Step 1: Remove all the subfolders and replace with a subfolder named "threads".
So in the above example, you would remove these 2 subfolders...
/forum/rebuildable-atomizer-systems/
...and replace them with one subfolder called "threads". Like this...
/threads/
Now you have a URL that looks like this...
/forum/rebuildable-atomizer-systems/
...and replace them with one subfolder called "threads". Like this...
/threads/
Now you have a URL that looks like this...
Code:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/320042-resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.htmlBut the page name (the last part of the URL) is still a problem. So now you have to ...
Step 2: Change the page's file name
Change it from...
Code:
320042-resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.html...to this...
Code:
resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.320042Now you've built a working URL
Code:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.320042LIVE LINK: Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
Modifying the URL To A Specific Post On The Thread
If the "Error" URL contains a specific post on the thread and you would rather just go there than start at the beginning of the thread, the URL would modification method above would still be the same, but with additional parameters: page number and post identifier (not post number).
The following example is a direct link to post #63 (which has the identifier of 6840155) on page 4 of the thread used in the example above...
Code:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.320042/page-[INSERT PAGE NUMBER HERE]#post-[INSERT POST IDENTIFIER HERE]
Code:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/resistance-wire-kanthal-nichrome.320042/page-4#post-7378059LIVE LINK: Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
