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[SychO]

Hello dudes,

so this is not really an smf thing but i know i'll find the answer here,

so i setup my homepage which is above the /forum directory of course

but when i get in to the website which is supposed to read index.php

it reads /forum/index.php as primary

so how do i make the one of the homepage primary ?

thank you and reply quick please

[Kindred]

please include SPECIFIC URLs....

I suspect that you have some sort of redirect, but we need to see it in action to determine the actuality

[SychO]

Umm,

in public_html was only directories : forum, shop ...etc

so i added the homepage which of course you don't have to set a folder named homepage for it you just drop the files in public_html

and i thought that when it would see the first index.php it would go to it but it's like avoiding it and going to /forum

thats the matter,

now here is the site : http://dzair-gaming.info/

when you click it takes you to http://dzair-gaming.info/forum/

instead of simply http://dzair-gaming.info/index.php

[Kindred]

yup... looks like you have a redirect set in your root folder which points to your forum folder.

I'd bet that you have a file named .htaccess in there...

[SychO]

yes i do and its content is :

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on

RewriteOptions inherit

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/dzair\-gaming\.info\/forum" [R=301,L]


what di i do now ?

[Illori]

if you dont want people automatically redirected to the forum remove

Code Select Expand

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/dzair\-gaming\.info\/forum" [R=301,L]


from that file.

[SychO]

I did that and as you can see when you go to the website it still takes everyone to the forum

[Kindred]

did you delete BOTH of these lines?

Did you CONFIRM that the file was SAVED? (if you used FTP, there is a good chance that the server rejected the overwrite)

[SychO]

did you delete BOTH of these lines?

Did you CONFIRM that the file was SAVED? (if you used FTP, there is a good chance that the server rejected the overwrite)

i deleted both of these :

Code Select Expand

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/dzair\-gaming\.info\/forum" [R=301,L]

and yes indeed i am using FTP.

but when i recheck the file i find it as i saved it. with the lines deleted

[Kindred]

if the redirect is still happening, then either
a) the htaccess file was not actually changed
or
b) your server/host has some sort of server side caching.