Still not solved: htaccess redirect problem

[Neverhurry]

Hi, I don't know if this is possible, I want to make a small forum, it is so small that there is only one board. So I decide, when users hit: www dot mysite dot com, it will go directly to index.php?board=1.0 instead of going to index.php?action=forum.
I will appreciate very much your advice. Thank you.

[Kays]

Hi, don't you have another topic open on this?

Look into using a redirect in .htaccess. Google it as I'm not that comfortable with it and you should be able find how to do it quite readily.

[Neverhurry]

Hi, don't you have another topic open on this?

Look into using a redirect in .htaccess. Google it as I'm not that comfortable with it and you should be able find how to do it quite readily.

Thank you Kays, and I am very sorry for the duplicate, that's my fault because I thought I didn't make myself understood in this topic, i could have just edit it. Please delete the other topic for me. I asked this question and waited 3 days to have first answer. It is so frustrated.

[Kays]

Unfortunately, we've been getting behind responding to support topics and I was just going though some unanswered ones.

Do look into using .htccess for this as it's probably the best way. Otherwise the links in the menu bar can be edited but that won't redirect someone coming directly into the forum.

[Neverhurry]

Unfortunately, we've been getting behind responding to support topics and I was just going though some unanswered ones.

Do look into using .htccess for this as it's probably the best way. Otherwise the links in the menu bar can be edited but that won't redirect someone coming directly into the forum.

Kays, thanks for inspiration, i did it. 
Anyone who interested how to do, pls reply to this post.

[Neverhurry]

With the .htaccess when www yousite com opens it will go to the board url, for example www.yoursite.com/index?board=1.0, that does the trick. Here is the code for those who have interest:

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yoursite\.com\/index.php\?board\=1\.0" [R=301,L]



But the real challenge is, how to do when www.yoursite.com/index?board=1.0 opens the url will display only www.yoursite.com/ without the following part "index?board=1.0". That is tough, i don't anything about it, can someone give me some hints or direction, that I can pursue further. Thanks.

[Neverhurry]

Not perfect, not at all, the above code redirect only yoursite.com to yoursite.com/index.php?board=1.0 but it can not redirect yoursite.com/index.php which is default link url of "Home" button in the navigation menu (and it will redirect by default to yoursite.com/index.php?action=forum). Who knows how to solve this problem?

[Neverhurry]

I tried this but got a loop:

Code Select Expand

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
redirect /index.php http://yoursite/index.php?board=1.0

anybody can help? 

[Neverhurry]

Can anybody tell me, is $scripturl set by default /index.php?
and when I hit $scripturl  that is index.php, then it redirects to /index.php?action=forum
Where is it defined, can I change them? thanks.

When mouse is over the Navigation Home button one can see its link url is yoursite.com/index.php, why is it? can it be changed to yoursite.com/? Is it anyway that one can change the Home button url? Or, is it anywhere inside the ACP that one can choose the forum url?

In short, because the Home button is very often used, and because its url is yoursite.com/index.php, that I don't know how to redirect it to yoursite.com/index.php?board=1.0, that i need to change its link url to yoursite.com/ without the following index.php, pls help.

[Neverhurry]

With the .htaccess when www yousite com opens it will go to the board url, for example www.yoursite.com/index?board=1.0, that does the trick. Here is the code for those who have interest:

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yoursite\.com\/index.php\?board\=1\.0" [R=301,L]

But the real challenge is, how to do when www.yoursite.com/index?board=1.0 opens the url will display only www.yoursite.com/ without the following part "index?board=1.0". That is tough, i don't anything about it, can someone give me some hints or direction, that I can pursue further. Thanks.

Who knows?

[Kill Em All]

Sorry for the delayed response. Do you still require assistance with this issue?