How to make portal.php default page

Post by **Ultim8** » 11. December 2008 23:35

Your Portal Version: 1.0.2
Your phpBB Type: Standard phpBB3
MODs installed: No
Your knowledge: Basic Knowledge
Boardlink: http://www.venom-forum.co.uk

PHP Version: 4.5

What have you done before the problem was there?

What have you already tryed to solve the problem?

Description and Message
I have installed board 3 portal without a hitch and everything seems to be working however my phpbb3 install is on the root of my webserver so when i goto my web address www.venom-forum.co.uk it goes straight into the forum rather than the prtal which is at portal.php, how can i make this happen?

Cheers in advance for the help

Post by **Marc** » 12. December 2008 07:13

You might try to do the changes to the .htaccess file as mentioned in the install.xml.

Post by **Kevin** » 12. December 2008 09:34

He cant use the .htaccess, as he is hosted on IIS.

Internet Information Services (IIS)

He can ask his hoster, or - if it is his own server - set the defaullt page in the IIS management. But .htaccess only works with Apache.

Post by **Ultim8** » 12. December 2008 23:58

Hi i have editted the .htaccess file and changed it to what the install says and have even tried it with just portal.php in there but it still wont work.
Is this because im on a windows server and i need to get my webhosting company to edit the file?

Post by **Kevin** » 13. December 2008 10:10

Ultim8 wrote:Is this because im on a windows server

Yes, this is what i said.

Ultim8 wrote:and i need to get my webhosting company to edit the file?

Yes / No.
You need to ask your webhosting company to set the portal.php as start page. But this is not done with a .htaccess, it have to be configured in the IIS server.
Maybe your webhoster offers something similar to confixx (a configuration web interface), where you can set start pages for your domains.

Post by **bearqst** » 16. December 2008 01:07

Ultim8 wrote:Hi i have editted the .htaccess file and changed it to what the install says and have even tried it with just portal.php in there but it still wont work.
Is this because im on a windows server and i need to get my webhosting company to edit the file?

One of two things.

Ask your web hosting company to change your default web site document to portal.php, as Kevin said.

Or try to add a redirect in your root.

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<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yourdoman.com/portal.php' ) ;
?>

You'd need to name the page default.php or whatever your default document is.

Warning: If your default document is index.php

don't use this method

as it'll stop your forums from working properly.

Then you back to contacting your web hosting company.

Post by **DragonMaster** » 14. February 2009 02:40

You could also change your domain to a URL redirect and have it land on the portal page

Post by **danleedham** » 22. February 2009 17:04

one way I got it working... (on a server that i didn't set up - I'd use Apache being an Apple Server Guru)

create a file index.html on your root and paste this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!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><title></title><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= portal.php" /></head><body></body></html>

It doesn't work for everything / everyone... but does for some...

Post by **MalkContent** » 14. April 2009 16:12

hi

I've got the same problem and I've got access to a plesk control panel (v8.6.0) but I don't have the slightest clue where to edit the default page for my forum's root

I've searched for about an hour now and my hoster guy doesn't seem to have an idea, too -.-

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