I need to prune a subforum and give it a new life

[cgriell]

I have read on this Forum some posts about copying subforums and restoring them somewhere else, and often the discussion finished asking why the author wanted to do this... so I start with what I need

I will use my actual forum, it will be faster to write and the issue easier to understand. If this is against the rules, I can reformulate my question

Current situation
I created a Forum with viewers from different groups. I am the content creator, and the Forum has readers from different groups. It is, essentially, a Read Only Forum, with few registered users.

This is my primary forum www.fakerescue.cat/FAR

What I would like to have
I would like that one of the subforums https://fakerescue.cat/FAR/viewforum.php?f=25 will be accessed by companies for commercial purposes, outside the primary forum

What I think I need (your ideas are welcome if you have a different solution)
i.) that this subforum will have its own, easy to remember, URL, such as www.advertisers-guild.cat or www.fakerescue.cat/guild . Current names https://fakerescue.cat/FAR/viewforum.php?f=25 or even www.fakerescue.cat/FAR are not "commercial"
ii.) that non registered users who access it (it is a Public Forum) will not be able to access the primary forum unless they know its URL

A possible way of doing this - this is a question, I am not sure if this would work or if I need a new phpBB installation -
To copy all the files under the directory (www.fakerescue.cat/FAR) to a new directory (www.fakerescue.cat/guild)
To prune in this copied Forum, all other Forums, except https://fakerescue.cat/FAR/viewforum.php?f=25 using phpBB tools

Is there an easy way to do this? (I am able to create domains and copy files or directories, but I prefer not to modify databases).


BTW, I have a backup of everything, but as you may know, creating backups is easy, restoring from them not as much.

Thanks

[warmweer]

Use the permission system (group-forum) to control viewing/reading rights for different groups (non-registered users have Guest permissions).

[cgriell]

Use the permission system (group-forum) to control viewing/reading rights for different groups (non-registered users have Guest permissions).

Thanks! I am newbie and I do not understand how the permission system will solve this part of the problem:

i.) that this subforum will have its own, easy to remember, URL, such as www.advertisers-guild.cat or www.fakerescue.cat/guild . Current names https://fakerescue.cat/FAR/viewforum.php?f=25 or even www.fakerescue.cat/FAR are not "commercial"

and I do not know how to implement this one

ii.) that non registered users who access it (it is a Public Forum) will not be able to access the primary forum unless they know its URL

I will use this forum as an example.

Board index <- Support Forums <- [3.3.x] Support Forum

Non registered users are able to access the Board Index, and Read Only whatever they are authorised to Read on a top down approach. Once they are in one of the branches, for example [3.3.x] Support Forum, they can go up by clicking on "Board Index" or on "Support Forums"

For the sake of my example, let me call "Limited Area" to [3.3.x] Support Forum

What I would like is that non-registered users that enter in the "[3.3.x] Support Forum" through a direct link from outside the Forum will not see "Board Index" nor "Support Forum", although whoever enters from within the Forum will be able to backtrack

This will mean to create two different RO groups : "Full RO group" and "Limited RO group", and assign a different group to the reader depending on its primary entry point. If he enters via a direct link to the "Limited Area" the permission system assigns it to the "Limited RO Group" otherwise (even if he goes to the "Limited Area"), he continues on the "Full RO group"

Assuming that this can be done (and I do not know how to do it), I still need to have a direct access to the Limited Area


To solve the two issues (direct access to this Limited Area with its own URL and its own set of permissions) I think the way is to create a new Forum, which includes only the content of the "Limited Area", but I do not see how to do it