Problem with link

[xvision]

Hello SMF users,

I didnt use smf forums for long time and now i tried to install one.
Well i have success installing the forum manuely and installing a new theme.
But another problem cames out, well i made an subdomain on my webhosting.
I installed my website on root www. hxxp:l2flash.com [nonactive] , and i created an subdomain hxxp:forum.l2flash.com [nonactive] , and inside of hxxp:forum.l2flash.com [nonactive] i have installed the smf forum.
Now i am available to see the forum on link www. hxxp:forum.l2flash.com/index.php [nonactive] , but i am not able to see it on www. hxxp:forum.l2flash.com [nonactive] , so with out this index.php ...

Note: I made an space between www. and hxxp:l2flash.com [nonactive] becouse i cannot post an link before i make 10 posts on forum.

What could be the problem and how could i fix it ? Thank you very much.

[mashby]

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/directoryindex.html

[Herman's Mixen]

What is repair_settings.php?

for the Querystring to index.php you should do something to the .htaccess to rewrite rules
so that index.php will rewritten to some URL format

[xvision]

I was thinking about that this problem is connected with .htaccess , but how to make .htaccess to open index.html on main domain and to open index.php on subdomain.
I mean index.html > hxxp:www.l2flash.com [nonactive] and index.php www.forum.l2flash.com  ?

Here is my .htaccess :

Code Select Expand

AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DirectoryIndex index.html

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)$ index.html?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=news&nid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/page-([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=news&page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^stat/s([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=stat&sid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^stat/([a-z]*)/s([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=stat&act=$1&sid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^stat/([a-z]*)/s([0-9]*)/clan([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=stat&act=$1&sid=$2&clan=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^cp/([a-z]*)$ index.html?f=cp&opt=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^cp/char([0-9]*)/s([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=cp&opt=charinfo&char=$1&sid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^cp/support/([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=cp&opt=support&act=write&s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^cp/robo/s([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=cp&opt=robo&sid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^cp/bill/([A-Z0-9]*)/s([0-9]*)$ index.html?f=cp&opt=robo&act=bill&inv=$1&sid=$2 [L]

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Not sure what you're trying to accomplish.  www.l2flash.com goes to your website homepage (very nice!), where there's a 'Forum' link in the navbar up top.  If you correct that link to the subdomain, that's how people would get there.  Once in the forum, members can just bookmark the forum link for direct accress.  You can't use the same url to go to two different places.

[Herman's Mixen]

you need to rewrite some rules and make sure you have in "Forum Settings" --> enabled search friendly urls !!

then you can edit htaccess to your needs to remove index.php

Code Select Expand


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

this can be different for You !!

[xvision]

Not sure what you're trying to accomplish.  hxxp:www.l2flash.com [nonactive] goes to your website homepage (very nice!), where there's a 'Forum' link in the navbar up top.  If you correct that link to the subdomain, that's how people would get there.  Once in the forum, members can just bookmark the forum link for direct accress.  You can't use the same url to go to two different places.

I know , i will put the link... But i want the forum to be opened with the url www .forum.l2flash.com
I just dont understand why it wont open , it shows only :

Index of /

SSI.php
Settings.php
Settings_bak.php
Smileys/
Sources/
Themes/
agreement.txt
avatars/
cgi-bin/
favicon.ico
index.php
license.txt
news_readme.html
readme.html
ssi_examples.php
ssi_examples.shtml
subscriptions.php
u4540227_smf.db

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you need to rewrite some rules and make sure you have in "Forum Settings" --> enabled search friendly urls !!

then you can edit htaccess to your needs to remove index.php

Code Select Expand


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

this can be different for You !!

I tried what u said , search friendly urls is chacked and i added those codes to .htaccess and nothing changed. I am still on the same problem hmm..

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Would be a lot simpler if you put the forum in a subdirectory rather than a subdomain - www.l2flash.com/forum/.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Just tried it on one of my domains, and it works fine.  Created subdomain that points to a directory containing a test forum, and direct link to subdomain - www.forum.domain.com -  loads the forum normally.  Either you set it up wrong, or your Apache config is different.

[xvision]

I have fixed my problem. I have just copy my .htaccess to the forum folder and edited index.html to index.php , and its working fine now.
So i got 1 .htaccess in root for website , and 1 .htaccess in forum folder for subdomain.
I hope there wont be any conflict between those 2 .htaccess files.

Anyway thnak you all.

[Kindred]

you need to rewrite some rules and make sure you have in "Forum Settings" --> enabled search friendly urls !!

UM...   NO (no no no no no)
At this point in the age of the internet, no one should ever be using that silly "enable search friendly urls"   they are useless for SEO and there are numerous KNOWN issues with attempting to use them