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I am nearly completely new to building sites. However i feel ive done okay so far, but i am looking to add a landing page to my forum, but i havent the foggiest idea on how to do this.

I tried to change my basic url for my forums and the theme flipped out, and i couldnt figure out a way to make it nice and happy so i went back and and made the url normal again. Theme works good again.

I am not sure on what to do as far as the back end of things like FTP, and HTAccess and things like that...cant even figure out how to do file paths correctly, so forgive my innocence to this, but bluntly i just need some help.

thanks for the replies ahead of time!

An easy way to do this would be to install your forum at http://yourdomain.com/forum, then set up an index.php/htm page at http://yourforum.com/ and use that as your splash/landing page. You could put some graphics and a button that says "Enter Forum", which would be a link to http://yourdomain.com/forum/.

how would i go about making my original domain an index.php/htm page?

In your ftp, just upload an file called index.htm to your webdocs root directory. Put your HTML code in there.

again i apologize for being so new to this, is there a way for me to import everything i have done to the other forum to this new one?

You should not have to start over, all you need to do is move the folders of your forum install into a new subdirectory and point everything correctly to reflect this new location. It's pretty late and my answer is a bit vague I know, I will check this thread in the morning and see how you've come along.

I might make another suggestion till you gain a bit more stability with what you're doing..

Try using the portal.php page as your landing sight, it will be easier to add or remove functions and will actually give you a place to learn a bit more.

okay, so i got a landing page, but when i tried moving all of my folders from my forums into a file i created for /forum it doesnt navigate to it, it just shows a 404 error.

Let me show you all.

htt://www.AVTHQ.org

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a slight update changed the index file to .php form htm

edit the php file /inc/settings.php

$settings['bburl'] = "http://www.example.com/forum";
$settings['cookiedomain'] = ".example.com";
$settings['cookiepath'] = "/forum";

See if this helps you.

and this can now be closed, we have the solution and its all fixed thanks for the help guys!