Domain entry points...?

[ErnieTheMilk]

I'm not sure where this question should go so I'll pop it in here as I've recently upgraded to 3.8.2

I have both my forums sat behind home/forums but would like to have access to them directly through /home as opposed to having an html home page before people go to the forum

I've tried moving the index.php page into the root directory but all I get is a 404 page. What should I be doing to ensure I get to the forum from the home page please?

Thanks

[Floris]

The whole content of /forum/ should be moved into /home/
but before that, go into the admincp and change the path/url.

[ErnieTheMilk]

So you mean I can't have a /forum directory if I want to have a direct link into the site with no home page html?

[Floris]

Ok, you're confusing me, sorry.

you want vbulletin's forum to be under /forum/

but you want the / (root of the site) to automatically go to /forum/ ?

index.php in /

<?php

    header("Status: 200");
    header("Location: /forum/index.php");
    exit;

?>

[ErnieTheMilk]

Hey Floris, sorry for my bad...

I want to click on mysite.com and go directly to my forum, not have to go to an html page with a click thru to the forum...

[Floris]

You are still not clear, because what you say now is ... to have the forum under yoursite.com and not under yoursite.com/forum

it's one or the other.

[ErnieTheMilk]

Sorry, I am probably not explaining myself clearly

I have my forums set up as follows -

/root/forums. When someone logs into the site they go to a index html page and from there a link to go to /forums.

What I would like is when they click on mysite.com they go directly to the forum site and not an html page.

Trouble is I'm not sure how to do this, I have attempted to move the index.php page to the root and remove the index.html page but all I get is errors.

Hope that helps to explain!

[beishe8]

There is a simple option but it costs money.

http://yoursite.com/forum

Make "forum" a subdomain.

http://forum.yoursite.com

http://yoursite.com/forum still fully functional.


Buy another domain named yoursite2.com

In your Cpanel(provided you do have it) point it at http://forum.yoursite.com

Typing http://yoursite2.com or http://yoursite.com/forum or http://forum.yoursite.com all would bring up yoursite.com/forum.

[Floris]

Sorry, I am probably not explaining myself clearly

I have my forums set up as follows -

/root/forums. When someone logs into the site they go to a index html page and from there a link to go to /forums.

What I would like is when they click on mysite.com they go directly to the forum site and not an html page.

Trouble is I'm not sure how to do this, I have attempted to move the index.php page to the root and remove the index.html page but all I get is errors.

Hope that helps to explain!

I seriously don't get it.

You want the forums to be in the directory /forum/

This means : see above auto header redirect index.php file. this will just load the forum and nothing else, if it's in that dir.


OR


You want the forums to be in the /root/ and not in the sub dir /forum/

This means: move the forums up 1 dir and update admincp/vboptions/siteurl.