My forum doesn't start up at www.xxx.net

[PhillyTom]

People can't access my forum unless they type the full url: www.xxx.net/fourm/index.php. Just typing the domain name produces server generated screen. Please help.

[PhillyTom]

How does the forum start-up when someone enters a domain name? Is there something in the HTaccess file in the publicHTML folder that makes it happen? If so, well I overwrote that file. The HTaccess file is blank.

[PhillyTom]

It all comes down to writing the HTaccess file, and I don't know how to do that. I've googled and read and read, but it's the middle of the night here and... I don't know. Nothings working. I try entering code that I find in my searches and it just doesn't work.

What time does Jelsoft wake up?

[Trevor Hannant]

You should speak to your host regarding this.

[beishe8]

How does the forum start-up when someone enters a domain name? Is there something in the HTaccess file in the publicHTML folder that makes it happen? If so, well I overwrote that file. The HTaccess file is blank.

In Cpanel you can redirect it without knowing how to make a htaccess file.

mydomain.com > mydomain.com/forum

[PhillyTom]

Beishe8, I should have thought of that! I will think of it if this ever happens again. Thanks so much for posting it.

I ended up doing that, Trevor. Thanks. My host wrote an HTaccess redirect for me and everything's working now. I'm going to post it here in case it's missing anything that a genuine vBulletin redirect should have:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/forums\/" [R=301,L]

[snakes1100]

It would be better to fix the issue, rather than mask it with a htaccess redirect, you've now put more work on apache with a rewrite that isnt needed.

Why dont you post a valid url to your site with the page issue, post the full error msg, that way we can resolve the issue.