Board3

Your Portal Version: 1.0.2
Your phpBB Type: Standard phpBB3
MODs installed: Yes
Your knowledge: Basic Knowledge
Boardlink: http://deviant-mafia.com/forums/index.php

What have you done before the problem was there?
Problem does not exist at this point.

What have you already tryed to solve the problem?
Nothing

Description and Message
I am trying to make the portal show in place of the index of my main site. I am fairly oblivious on how to make this happen.

For example, my portal address is http://www.deviant-mafia.com/portal/index.php

I would like the portal to show when a user types in http://www.deviant-mafia.com

Thanks in advance for any help.

I successfully use a refresh command in my index.html page

Refresh eg.


<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL= http://www.deviant-mafia.com/portal/index.php">


Specifies a delay in seconds before the browser automatically reloads the document. Optionally, specifies an alternative URL to load, making this command useful for redirecting browsers to other pages.

The 0 in the above example redirects visitors to the forum with no visible delay and your index.html page should not show on their screen. Alternatively you could insert a number of seconds to display your index.html page before redirecting to the forum.

eg.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="15;URL= http://www.deviant-mafia.com/portal/index.php">

Should add a 15 second delay, displaying your sites main page before redirecting to the forum portal
This is sometimes used with a brief "you are being redirected to our site please be patient" in case the page loads slow and often there is also a Link to the portal on the page in case there is a problem with the actual redirect process.

eg.

Please wait while you are redirected to our site. If the page doesn't load automatically please click the link below
http://www.deviant-mafia.com/portal/index.php

I put a redirect in my .htaccess, yours would be something like this (use full line)

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.deviant-mafia.com/portal/index.php

Back up the file first, hope it helps...

Example can be found at link below, compare link below with the link of the page your taken to.

http://www.sadisticoldbastards.com

hi what should the whole htaccess file look like as mine shows this at the moment
my sites address is www.t-365.co.uk

Thanks

I added the line to the bottom of the file. make sure your adding it to the server root .htaccess, not the one in the phpbb3 folders.

its working,

thanks for your help

now looks like this...