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Ever since the board was upgraded (2 years ago?), all the links that appear in the orange headers, everything above the words "Discussion Board", the links are broken. Instead of pointing toward the http://www.drmcdougall.com site they point to http://www.sonic.net which, obviously, is NOT where they're supposed to go.

It's so frustrating when one wants to jump to the McDougall home page for something and forgets and hits the "home" link and it takes you to an error page.

Hi, Sue.

That's not how it is for me. For me, those links all point at drmcdougall.com. Perhaps you need to clear your browser's cache?

In the browser I use (Firefox), there's a "Clear Recent History" command on the Tools menu. I think in the circumstances you describe, I would try clicking that.

I hope that helps...

malware of some sort is playing w/your computer! Any other problems?

The links work fine for me too. Hope you can clear up the computer issue.

It's not malware, it's not my cache. It's the html programming.

I'm referring to the ones on the tippy-top of the page. There's the graphic/link that says "Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center. Right-click that and copy the link and it grabs:
http://sonic.net/index.html

Star McDougallers links to:
http://sonic.net/star.html

Packaged Foods goes to:
http://sonic.net/packaged.html

and so on. It's like this on every computer I use to access the forums.

Whoever coded the page didn't put complete links but assumed the root would be http://www.drmcdougall.com when in actuality the root is http://www.sonic.net, the url of the board's (host server's?) home, as seen in the action links for the board, such as

FAQ's:
http://sonic.net/~mcdsite/drmcdougall.c ... dfd3cf656f

and

Search:
http://sonic.net/~mcdsite/drmcdougall.c ... dfd3cf656f

In fact, just look at the url of the page you're reading this message on - it starts with http://sonic.net/~mcdsite/drmcdougall.com, right?

When I had my own web site on Geocities years ago, I was able to just put the page file name (/my_page.htm for example) in the link to another page on that site because the root was still my Geocities site (http://MYNAME.geocities.com). If I was linking to that page from *another* web site I would have to put the entire url - http://MYNAME.geocities.com/my_page.htm (all ficticious examples used, of course)

It'll just take 5 minutes for someone to type out the complete url, to type in http://www.drmcdougall.com/index.htm to the one that now goes to /index.htm, for example.

All of you can click the graphic above that says "Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center" and it goes to the McDougall home page and you *don't* get directed to the "404 File Not Found" error page:

http://sonic.net/index.html

instead? Weird.

What I get:

http://www.drmcdougall.com/index.html



For me, Star McDougallers links to:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/star.html
(the image location is http://www.drmcdougall.com/images/!!nav ... r_over.gif)



Packaged Foods -> http://www.drmcdougall.com/packaged.html (image location: http://www.drmcdougall.com/images/!!nav ... d_over.gif)



I get "http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/faq.php"



I get "http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/search.php"



Nope. "http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/posting.php?mode=quote&f=4&p=201832"



Looking at the page source, I see that you're correct. Lots of the links are incomplete, with the base of the url being assumed. Most of the image urls I see are complete, though.



I don't understand what you're getting at here. Yes, I can click that image and get directed to the home page. I don't see any references to sonic.net. Sorry I haven't been able to help more.

Weirder and weirder.

Yes, those are the links I use all the time. Now, I don't typically right click; I usually left click. But I tried the right click just to double check, and they still work fine.



No, the url that I see makes no reference to sonic. It starts with drmcdougall.com.



Yep, goes right to the home page; no redirection. Sorry.

I think I found my problem. A long, long time ago, when the url for the "new" forums was announced (when they moved from VegSource to here, maybe?), the link we were given started with that sonic.net/~mcdsite and when it was officially transferred the url was shortened and the sonic.net part dropped. All of you who responded probably joined after the switch so have the updated url while I still had the old one.

At least I now have the right one saved and yep, all the links on top work. I'm glad I mentioned it, even though I was in the wrong to begin with.

Thanks for your help.

Yay! Glad you figured it out.

that can be really unpleasant & hard to get rid of!

It's even keeping me logged in now! All these years it always logged me out as soon as I left the forums and I had to sign back in over and over again, even though I have the box checked to keep me signed in.

Little things like this make me happy. LOL