i've tried installing phpbb in the root directory ("/") instead of "/phpbb2/" or "/forum/" on one of my websites that is intended to be just a forum, and everything went fine, EXCEPT that there were permission problems and errors when trying to go to the administration panel of the board, making it ok to use but impossible to administer, even though the "script path" had been set to "/" during installation, and the admin account had been created as usual.
the idea is that when people go to
http://www.domain.com they fall right into a discussion forum.
i had to resort to reinstalling phpbb2 on /forum/ and redirect those who go to
http://www.domain.com to
http://www.domain.com/forum .
but there must be an easy solution to this riddle, can anyone help?
and also, are there any risks in running phpbb in this way?