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Hello Everyone

I got a html page I created how do I set it to the froum homepage

I would like it so user can go to the site and it will take them to the home page after that they click button and they go to the forum

I used to be able to set this in admin panel on forummotion

since on mybb i can't figure how to do it I am with 000webhost and is there any plugin i can use that will make a html a homepage

cheers
You could just name that index.html. In normal cases, anyone who tries to visit your website will be automatically directed to the index.html page even if there's a index.php file in the same directory/folder in FTP.
(2013-10-27, 02:34 AM)Arbaz Wrote: [ -> ]You could just name that index.html. In normal cases, anyone who tries to visit your website will be automatically directed to the index.html page even if there's a index.php file in the same directory/folder in FTP.
What this user said, it works I've had to do it a few time's with some recent projects. Let me know if you have any trouble, just shoot me a PM.
Try that out does not work
Try adding the following to your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

Also, be sure to name your homepage file "Index.html"
It depends on the server configuration whether or not it would override index.php with index.html

So why not just create a folder called 'forums' in your webservers root directory, and move the entire forum there?
Then on your homepage, just reference it to that folder you just created.

Be sure to edit the forum settings so that it knows it's in a different directory. See this on how to do that.

Then you could also add a DNS record with the 'forums' prefix that redirects to that folder.

So forums.yourdomain.com would visit your forums
and www.yourdomain.com would visit your homepage
You could either do it with the index way, or by adding a subdirectory such as /forum and adding your files to it. Both ways are fine, though I'm more of a fan of the /forum way. Gives more of the essence that the home page is separate from the forum. Users would look more to the home page for announcements, and the /forum for community engagement.
the only way i can seem to do it is to login to 000webhost and redirect the forum http://testsite123456789.site50.net to http://testsite123456789.site50.net/index.html
(2013-10-29, 06:26 AM)tdbnz Wrote: [ -> ]the only way i can seem to do it is to login to 000webhost and redirect the forum http://testsite123456789.site50.net to http://testsite123456789.site50.net/index.html

Like I said before, just make a directory called forums in your webservers ROOT directory. Move all the forum files into there. And put your index.html in the ROOT directory.

So in your case:

http://yoursite.site50.net/index.html
will go to your homepage

http://yoursite.site50.net/forums/index.php
or
http://yoursite.site50.net/forums
will go to your forums
ok I will do that
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