Can the forum index page be the home page of a domain name?

Dzien Dobry · Post by **Dzien Dobry** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 1:56 pm

Can the forum index page (e.g., http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/index.php ) be the home page of a domain name (www.anything.org) or must it be inside some sub-directory of a domain name?

psoTFX · Post by **psoTFX** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 1:57 pm

No, it can be wherever you like, the root of a domain, a subdomain, a folder, etc. etc.

black_prince · Post by **black_prince** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 2:08 pm

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Can the forum index page (e.g., http://phpbb.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/index.php ) be the home page of a domain name (www.anything.org) or must it be inside some sub-directory of a domain name?
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easiest way to do it would be to have a redirect script on your index.html page to redirect to the forum index.php page!

hsim · Post by **hsim** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 2:16 pm

most hosters allow index.php or index.cgi to be the start page. So the easiest way is to install phpBB into the root directory of the server and delete index.htm*

AL · Post by AL » Sat Nov 17, 2001 2:20 pm

or if the host uses apache you can .htaccess and have the default be anything you want (home.php in my case)

Dzien Dobry · Post by **Dzien Dobry** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 6:22 pm

I'm ready to install phpBB 2.0 into the root directory. In my example, where my homepage is www.anything.org, will I be connecting my browser to www.anything.org/index.php ?

Brewjah · Post by **Brewjah** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 6:23 pm

yup should work like that.. if you install phpBB2.0 into the root directory of your site then yeah

NahoG · Post by **NahoG** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 6:24 pm

Yeah, my index page is index.php but its not for phpBB, but I'm sure it'll work...

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