I installed the bb in a subdirectory on my server (say, 'forums').
It seems to install just fine, but when I try to use any of the links, like the calendar and cps, it sends me back to the root directory (and a 'page not found' error, of course).
Where do I change the setting for the directory structure so that these links point properly?
Thanks,
-Mike
Hi Mike,
Did you install under the Root dir, or under the public_html dir ??
I installed under:
/home/username/public_html/forums
(not literally, but as an example).
Thanks,
-Mike
Should be something like this.
(your URL -> mike.com)/public_html/forums
Maybe that's why it can't find it.. ??
Yes, it was something like:
http://www.domainname/forums
Just gave the above example to be more specific to where it is on the web server.
-Mike
Eh? That doesn't make any sense....why would there be second sub-directory? The bulletin board we are now posting to doesn't use that format in the URL!
-Mike
I knew that was a bad answer...
There are two transparent folders: one is public_html and the other is www Neither are included in the URL because the browser expects to find them anyway.
Your dir structure would have to go something like this.
root/public_html/forums because that's where it's expected to be found.
Why would the person who wrote this program write it for a specific web server configuration?
That can't possibly be the answer!
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-Mike
You're on a Cpanel server or something? Putting all of that aside "public_html" is your Apache/HTTP document root so that anything above that in /home/blah cant be accessed via the web. That shouldn't have anything to do with this problem and MyBB isn't coded for specific servers.
The problem lies with your "Forum URL" setting in the Admin CP, you should set it to
http://www.example.com/forums for the links to work correctly.