How do I make the portal my homepage?

[Frog]

Your Portal Version: 1.0.0RC3
Your phpBB Type: Standard phpBB3
MODs installed: No
Your knowledge: Beginner

What have you done before the problem was there?


What have you already tryed to solve the problem?


Description and Message
I figured I'd just put portal.php and the portal folder in the root directory to make the portal my homepage but it doesn't work. When I go to mysite.com/forum it goes to the portal and I want it to go to the forum and when I go to mysite.com I want it to go to the portal.

Similar to this site.

Thanks for any help!

[vengeance]

try this Knowledge Base: Moving portal.php outside of your forums directory

[Frog]

Thanks for link. It worked but...

I want it to be so mysite.com goes right to the portal. Right now it goes to my ftp index. However mysite.com/portal.php goes to the portal.

[Mike]

This may help:

knowledge/kb_show.php?id=8

[Frog]

Nah that's not my problem. I can see the .htacess file and I edited it. my portal is at myssite.com/portal.php I want it to appear at mysite.com without entering the portal.php part.

Thanks though.

[Kevin]

This is done with the edits in the .htaccess, as stated in the install.xml:
portal_docs/install.xml#.htaccess

[Mike]

Nah that's not my problem

Quote from the linked Article:

In some cases it is neccessary to edit the .htaccess file, especially when you want to direct your users to the portal page (portal.php) as the front page of your forum instead of the forum index (index.php).

That means that you just have to enter yoursite.com (instead of yoursite.com/portal.php) to see the Portal.

Isnt that exactly what you want?

[Frog]

Yes but that topic dealt with finding the .htaccess file which isn't hidden for me and I made the changes noted in the thread and it still didn't work but then I realized that the permissions wouldn't let the .htaccess file be edited. Anyway it's solved now so thank you for the help and links everyone.


I just have one completely off-topic question that I don't want to make a new thread for. When someone is viewing mysite.com (which is now the portal) does it record the guests on the who's online box on the forum?

just wondering Thanks

[Mike]

Yes... it does