Base URL

I am running vBulletin 3.8.2 with vBSEO 3.3.0. I am adding some custom code to some files and to ensure it was working I had to view the source code. I was surprised to see this:

Code:

<base href="http://www.#####.com/" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->

That is the code within the pages code. I am pretty certain that the closing base element isn't doing much in IE since it is wrapped in the comment tags.

I am not familiar with the IE conditional, but that simply doesn't look as if it is suppose to be in the code.

When I disabled vbseo it no longer displayed, so it is being tossed in by this modification. If you want to truly confirm this, have a look at your source code in the forums. it is there also.

Is that suppose to show or is it actually suppose to show this instead:

<base href="http://www.#####.com/" /></base>

(I blocked the URL because the site is in development and isn't "public" just yet.)

This doesn't seem to be causing my site any problems. I am just posting it because it doesn't look right.

Hello,

you can find a description in this thread: Internet explorer cannont open the internet site [thread] Operation Aborted

Perhaps I am not being clear enough in what I was trying to say. I just viewed this threads source code and I see this:

Code:

 
<base href="vBSEO - vBulletin SEO" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->

I mean I can physically see that in the source code for the page output. Should we actually be seeing the if statement for IE? Shouldn't that be processed before the pages code is output?

I mean I can physically see that in the source code for the page output. Should we actually be seeing the if statement for IE? Shouldn't that be processed before the pages code is output?

Yes, it's perfectly fine.
That conditional is meant to be processed by the 'browser'.

See: CSS - Conditional comments

Excellent, that is all I was wondering. lol Thank you.

Ie incorrectly handles the self-closing /> tag on the base element (basically ignores it)

Thus, if ie, it gets a </base> otherwise, the self-close tag will work fine.

If I wanted to remove the entire

<base href="http://www.#####.com/" /></base>

how would I do that? I don't see <base in any template. Would I need to edit a PHP file? Which one?

This is required for vbseo to function properly.

Anything using a virtual folder, like /groups/ will break with it removed.

Thanks Brian. The removal of the line of code would likely not affect my forum, as I don't use Groups, nor most other vB features at all. Also, I've noticed that I see that line only in my forumdisplay pages. Some of the many modifications I've done in the past must have broke that feature / remove the code from the rest of the site long ago

It's not a big deal, but if there was an easy way to remove the line of code from my forumdisplay pages, I would likely try to remove it to see if it brakes something.

Do you use nested forums, like
/forum1/thread23423/

If so, anything in /threads/ will reference the wrong folder too.

It is necessary if you use ANYTHING with hierarchy.

I see. Thanks for the info. My thread URLs look like the following example (so I guess I'm OK):

http://www.example.com/1234-my-thread-name