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How to clone this forum?

(1) By František Kučera (franta) on 2020-04-20 09:48:03 [link]

I tried

    fossil clone https://sqlite.org/forum/ forum

and got the `forum` file, but it does not seem to contain the forum posts – when I start the UI:

    fossil ui forum

the links like `http://localhost:8080/forumnew` or `http://localhost:8080/forummain` are not working (*Page not found*) and Recent / Timeline shows zero items.

I used to have an offline archive of the mailing list on my computer (in my mailbox). Is this kind of experience possible with this forum?

Franta

(2) By Warren Young (wyoung) on 2020-04-20 10:06:57 in reply to 1 [link]

> links like http://localhost:8080/forumnew or http://localhost:8080/forummain are not working

Works here.

The `forummain` feature only goes back to 2020-03-12, so unless you're running a pre-release build of Fossil from the current trunk, that name won't work. In prior versions, only `/forum` worked. (I guess drh just didn't like `/forum/forum` and wanted the second level to be distinct from the first.)

As for `forumnew`, that should always work, going back to very early in the Forum feature's lifetime, which was initially released as part of Fossil 2.7. 

Therefore, I would guess that this and your prior problem come from using an older version of Fossil, such as 2.5, which Ubuntu was still shipping, last time I checked.

> Recent / Timeline shows zero items.

The default view shows check-ins only.  Either pull down the right-most pull-down in the submenu bar and select Forum or give this command:

      $ fossil timeline -R forum

(3) By František Kučera (franta) on 2020-04-20 10:13:40 in reply to 2

Yes, I have Fossil 2.5. I will try newer version. Thanks!