Title: [Plugin: phpbb_recent_topics] phpbb installation not in root subdirectory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: phpbb_recent_topics] phpbb installation not in root subdirectory

 *  [alanbee55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanbee55/)
 * (@alanbee55)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/)
 * The topic hyperlink generated by using phpbb recent topics in a page seems to
   assume the phpbb installation is in the main directory of the website, so it 
   looks for viewtopic.php in the wrong place. What is the cleanest way to hack 
   around this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-recent-topics/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-recent-topics/)

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 *  Plugin Author [linickx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linickx/)
 * (@linickx)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/#post-1825276)
 * What do you mean by “main”” directory? Have you set the correct forum url?
 * In the screenshot -> [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-recent-topics/screenshots](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-recent-topics/screenshots)
   you can see that the forum is not in the root directory of the website but in
   a sub directory /testforum/
 * Cheers
    Nick
 *  Thread Starter [alanbee55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanbee55/)
 * (@alanbee55)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/#post-1825277)
 * Thanks for the quick turn, Nick.. Cockpit error – I had left the URL blank. And
   yes, main => root. My WordPress installation is in subdirectory “A” and my phpbb
   is in “B”. Specifying the fully qualifed URL of
    “www.mysite.org/B” generated
   the link [http://www.mysite.org/A/www.mysite.org/B/viewtopic](http://www.mysite.org/A/www.mysite.org/B/viewtopic)
   blah blah
 * Specifying the URL as
    ../B works perfectly
 *  Thread Starter [alanbee55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanbee55/)
 * (@alanbee55)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/#post-1825280)
 * Postcript…….
 * Specifying the real fully qualified URL of
    “[http://www.mysite.org/B&#8221](http://www.mysite.org/B&#8221);,
   which is no doubt what Nick intended, works as well.
 *  Plugin Author [linickx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linickx/)
 * (@linickx)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/#post-1825304)
 * > Specifying the real fully qualified URL of
   >  “[http://www.mysite.org/B&#8221](http://www.mysite.org/B&#8221);,
   > which is no doubt what Nick intended
 * Yep, that’s what I meant 😀
 * Glad you got it working!

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 * Last reply from: [linickx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linickx/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpbb_recent_topics-phpbb-installation-not-in-root-subdirectory/#post-1825304)
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