Portal as Site Main Page

[kiokus]

add to your .htaccess this:

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DirectoryIndex app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

Hi,

This code is correct if the Portal is at the root.

But if the Portal is in a Directory, named par example, "forum"?

Then the code perhaps would be with "forum":

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DirectoryIndex forum/app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

But in this case, this will show only the Portal modules text, broken without styles. With an URL like "www.site/app.php/portal", and not "www.site/forum/app.php/portal".

What is wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[Kirk]

The portal extension is always in the same directory. The code must be like this:

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DirectoryIndex app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

[Harewood]

Hi,
Just to confirm, if I want the Portal page to be the main homepage I do the following:

• ftp to forum root dir [where app.php resides]

• download .htaccess file

• open .htaccess with TextPad and add at the following text to the bottom of the file

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# The following code makes the portal page the default homepage.
DirectoryIndex app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

• save .htaccess file and ftp upload updated .htaccess file to forum root dir.

Jason

[kiokus]

The portal extension is always in the same directory. The code must be like this:

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DirectoryIndex app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

As we have already mentioned, this code is correct only if the Portal and the Forum are at the root.

But it doesn't work if they are in a Directory.

The question is what is the correct code if they (Forum and Portal) are in a directory, and not in the root?

Thanks in advance.

[Harewood]

Just tried the following code in .htaccess and it didnt work...

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# The following code makes the portal page the default homepage.
DirectoryIndex app.php/portal index.php index.html index.htm

[Kirk]

There is an alternative, create a file called portal.php with the following content:

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<?php
header("Location: https://xxxx/app.php/portal/");
exit;

Replace the xxx with the URL to your forum. Load this file into your forum root (where the config.php is located).
Open: root/.htaccess
Insert this at the very end:

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DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm

[Harewood]

Hi Kirk,

Thank you for the reply and I did as requested but got the error Page not found?

[Kirk]

Does it work like that?

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<?php
header("Location: https://xxxx/app.php/portal");
exit;

Or:

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<?php
header("Location: https://xxxx/portal");
exit;

[Harewood]

Thank you, will give it a go tomorrow...