Setting a custom page as landing page

**IggyP** · Tue 14 May '13, 5:10pm

hey i dont know how proper or anything this is, but weve got an index.html file in root directory for a simple image/phrase as a splash page thats easy to edit...maybe a quick fix or someth for you..

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>MYSITENAME</title>

</head>

<body>

<body bgcolor="#000000">

<table width="100%" height="100%" valign="middle">
<tr>
<td>

<center style="position: absolute; top: 15%; left: 30%;"><a href="https://www.myforum.com/vb5"><img src="../images/splash.jpg" alt="MYSITENAME" style=" border-width: 0px;">
</a>
<br>
<font color="#FFFFFF" size="+3">
Welcome to MYSITENAME. Please click the image above to enter....</center>

</font>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>

then of course subbing out MYSITENAME and the base url...hope that helps some, lol

**Shanka** · Wed 15 May '13, 9:17am

Thank you kindly, Iggy. But we're after using a vBulletin page as a homepage instead of a splash-page :P

**Wayne Luke** · Wed 15 May '13, 9:43am

Please see this blog - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blogs...etin-5-connect

**Mark.B** · Wed 15 May '13, 10:57am

Should work on any site if set up properly. However we will need full details of exactly what's going wrong.

**Shanka** · Fri 17 May '13, 8:34am

Hi Wayne, I mentioned in my post that I had tried all that was on th

**Mark.B** · Fri 17 May '13, 8:42am

We will need more information. You've told us it doesn't work, but we need full details of what DOES happen. Error messages, what happens when you visit the URL, whatr page it takes you to, etc. The settings provided do work on aproperly configured server - they are working on my own site.

**soypnma** · Sat 28 Sep '13, 6:47am

I need help with this.

When you visit my site theprimacygroup.org it looks like it is in a constent loop. I pasted the code suggested on this blog post at the bottom of my htaccess file.

Below is my htaccess file.

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    
    #In some cases where you have other mod_rewrite rules, you may need to comment out the following line
    #and change it to match your folder name. This resets the other mod_rewrite rules for just this directory
    #If your site was www.example.com/forum, the setting would be /forum/
    #RewriteBase / 

    # Send css calls directly to the correct file VBV-7807
    RewriteRule ^css.php$ core/css.php [NC,L]

    # Redirect old install path to core.
    RewriteRule ^install/ core/install/ [NC,L]

    # Main Redirect
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

    # Because admincp is an actual directory.
    RewriteRule ^(admincp/)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
                          text/javascript \
                          application/x-javascript \
                          application/javascript \
                          application/json \
                          application/rss+xml \
                          application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
                          application/x-font-ttf \
                          application/xhtml+xml \
                          application/xml \
                          font/opentype \
                          image/svg+xml \
                          image/x-icon \
                          text/css \
                          text/html \
                          text/plain \
                          text/x-component \
                          text/xml
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A1209600
    ExpiresByType text/javascript A1209600
    ExpiresByType application/javascript A1209600
    ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/icon A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/x-ico A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/ico A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg A1209600
    ExpiresByType image/jpg A1209600
    ExpiresByType image/png A1209600
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A1209600
    ExpiresByType font/ttf A2592000
    ExpiresByType font/otf A2592000
    ExpiresByType font/x-woff A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A2592000
    ExpiresByType font/truetype A2592000
    ExpiresByType font/opentype A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject A2592000
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Connection keep-alive
    <filesmatch "\.(ico|flv|gif|swf|eot|woff|otf|ttf|svg)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
    </filesmatch>
    <filesmatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1209600, public"
    </filesmatch>
    <filesmatch "\.(eot|woff|otf|ttf|svg)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
    </filesmatch>
    # css and js should use private for proxy caching https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/caching#LeverageProxyCaching
    <filesmatch "\.(css)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, private"
    </filesmatch>
    <filesmatch "\.(js)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1209600, private"
    </filesmatch>
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^theprimacygroup\.org$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.theprimacygroup.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ home [L]

**soypnma** · Tue 1 Oct '13, 1:20pm

I ended up asking my host provider since I haven't heard from the thread, and they suggested the below which works great.

Code:

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

**Beezilbub** · Sun 5 Jan '14, 5:57am

Originally posted by soypnma

I ended up asking my host provider since I haven't heard from the thread, and they suggested the below which works great.

Code:

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

The a fore mentioned didn't work for me either but yours worked perfectly for me as well. Just added that to my htaccess file, changed the appropriate parts to match my domain and boom. Success. Many thanks!!!

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