Placing Forum in Folder

[nathan89]

I would like to place my forum in a folder called (community) which works fine, however when some access the root of my site of course no page is displayed.  Without doing a redirect how could I get simple portal do display at my sites root.

Forum is located (http://crohnssociety.com/community)

Would like simple portal to display at (http://crohnssociety.com/index.php)

[Galaxy Computers]

When you use your FTP client create a sub folder called community then upload your forum files within that folder.

[nathan89]

I understand that in fact I have already done it, I just want my simple portal to display at the root.

[aldo]

SimplePortal is part of your SMF forum, so you would need your whole SMF installation to be in your root directory, as you cannot have SimplePortal in a different directory as the forum itself.

[nathan89]

Is there a way to rewrite the index.php in .htaccess so that it will redirect to /community/index.php  ?

[nathan89]

I used the following in my .htaccess

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^crohnssociety.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.crohnssociety.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/crohnssociety\.com\/community" [R=301,L]

Is this an acceptable practice and will I still get indexed in the search engines as (http://crohnssociety.com) and not (http://crohnssociety.com/community)

[Tyrsson]

If you don't already have a index.php file in your root directory

Code Select Expand


<?php
header("Location:http://mysite.com/smf");
?>

Save this as index.php and upload it to the root of your hosting space.

[nathan89]

Thank you, thats worked great!

[Tyrsson]

Glad it worked