URL help

[RumpleTumbler]

If you install Vbulletin and say want the URL to be http://www.vbulletin.com instead of http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/ how would one go about making that happen?

[Kerry-Anne]

move all the files to the public_html folder on your server if you have one, or if not then the initial section that opens when you log into your FTP. The just change the URL settings in the vBulletin Options > Site Name / URL settings.

[RumpleTumbler]

The directions said to put it in a folder inside the public_html called "forums" or whatever you wanted and so thats how I installed it. Evidently that is how it's done here as well. I'd like to keep it that way to minimize the clutter as I don't know if I'll do anything else with the site. I would think it would be really simple to be do, I even feel stupid asking the question. ;)

[Kerry-Anne]

The only way to stop it from being /forums/ though is to have it in the site root, such as the site in my sig. Otherwise, you could add a redirect to divert users from www.yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com/forums but someone else will have to advise on how to do that as I'm not familiar with how it is coded.

[RumpleTumbler]

I could do a redirect in cpanel I guess. That would have to propogate but it would solve it for the time being I guess. Then if I can remove it later if the front page becomes something else.

Can anyone think of a reason not to do it that way?

[harishankar]

Create a file named index.php in your web root give the following statement in it:
<?php header ("Location:http://www.sitename/forumdir"); ?>

[RumpleTumbler]

Create a file named index.php in your web root give the following statement in it:
<?php header ("Location:http://www.sitename/forumdir"); ?>

Thanks! Is there any reason that it would be better to move the installation to the root rather than do this?

[Zachery]

Rumple, please post in the proper forums.

Kerry-Anne, please note in the future that you should not provide support in the pre-sales fourm.