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  • How to Set Forum as Homepage in Vbulletin 4 - forum.php to the default

    Hi all, Quick question and prolly a silly one if that...

    I want to set this as my main page: http://example.com/forum.php

    currently when you go to http://example.com it directs you to: http://example.com/content.php and i would much rather send people to my forums then to my main cms... is this possible to change without effecting SERP's ??

    Thanks in advanced
    Last edited by A6er; 12-06-2010, 02:38 PM.

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    Originally posted by BiNd@s View Post
    Hi all, Quick question and prolly a silly one if that...

    I want to set this as my main page: http://example.com/forum.php

    currently when you go to http://example.com it directs you to: http://example.com/content.php and i would much rather send people to my forums then to my main cms... is this possible to change without effecting SERP's ??

    Thanks in advanced


    In Vbulletin 4 CMS got one home page and forum got another home page. By default vbulletin 4 has CMS home page shown as the default home page.

    If you want to set forum as home page you can do it in two ways.

    Option 1:
    1. Find index.php in the installation folder. Open the index.php file in a text editor.
    2. At the bottom find this line
    require('content.php');
    Comment out this line as with two forward slashes
    //require('content.php');
    3. Find this line
    //require('forum.php');
    By default its commented. Take off the two forward slashes to uncomment it as
    require('forum.php');

    Option 2:

    * Find index.php in the installation folder. Rename index.php to something else e.g. index_discarded.php
    * Find forum.php in the installation folder. Rename it to index.php
    * Login to admin cp
    * Expand settings
    * Click on options
    * Click on Forums Home Page Options from the menu and then click on Edit Settings button
    * Find the section "Script Name for Forum Home Page". By default forum is the value in the textbox there.
    * Change the textbox value to index
    * Click on the Save button

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