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How can I change Address (Resolved)
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:18 pmAuthor: Spidermonkey
Your phpBB Version: 2.0.
phpBB Type: Integramod 141
MODs: No
Your knowledge: Beginner
Board URL: http://www.clan-enmity.com/forum PHP Version: MySQL Version: What was done before the problem appeared?Installed Int 141 What was done to try to solve the problem?Posting on these forums. <img> De.scription and MessageOk, I had a site built, sortof, with phpbb on it. I wanted a portal site instead, and I found and installed IM 141 following the directions verbatum. The problem that i have now, is in order to access my portal site, i have to tell people to type
http://www.clan-enmity.com/forum... I want this portal to be my main site.
I guess my question is, how can I set this up, so that if someone types in
http://www.clan-enmity.com, it will come up with my portal site. I uninstalled the other phpbb that i had on the main site, and all it shows now, is folders.
I appreciate any assistance that you guys can provide.
Re: How can I change Address
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:53 pmAuthor: CaNNon
You can do it 2 ways either a redirect in index.html on the your-site.com
or an apache .htaccess rule, I have found the index.html best for me.
[code]<DOCTYPE><html><head> <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http]
You can also check this link to the KB for more info.
[url=http]http://www.integramod.com/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=13[/url]
Re: How can I change Address
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:26 pmAuthor: Spidermonkey
Lol, thankyou for the fast response. Im still sorta new at all this, and the reply that was posted, would i add that info to the exsisting index.html, or would i create a new one.
Also, just being curious... Would there be a way, to just make a single page, with a button on the page, that would lead visitors to the site? Kind of like a welcome page... With just a banner, ect? Thankyou for any and all assistance.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:53 amAuthor: Spidermonkey
Ok, I figured out how to redirect my site, but it goes straight to the forum. I made a re-direct in my cPanel, so that if you type
http://www.clan-enmity.com, it will go to
http://www.clan-enmity.com/forum.
I want the main page that opens to be the "home" page. Right now, it goes straight to forums, and you have to click on "home". Is there a way to do this that is easy for me to understand?? <img>
Also, Im still curious however, if there is a way to make an "entry" page into my site. I know you guys probably only deal with this program only, but if anyone has any ideas, please, im all ears.
Thankyou.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:02 amAuthor: CaNNon
Thats what this line does:[code]<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http]
you really want to send them to portal.php thats our entry page. So edited to do it at your site would be.[code]<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http]
That index.html is pretty much copy and paste, just edit your paths then ftp it to
http://www.clan-enmity.com over wright the old one.
visitor hits the .com and meta will forward them to your portal page, you can add a flashy intro page with some bottoms/graphics' or what ever latter in that file.
[code]<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http]
You can leave that out it just preloads the little picture in front of the url in your browser.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:01 amAuthor: Spidermonkey
Ok, now I have found the index.html file in the forum folder, which has this program installed in it. I looked all over this file, and I did not find anything that looks like what you typed. Do I just copy and past your entry, and place it at the begining of the file, middle, end? Im sorry im so new to this.
As far as the little icon, are you talking about in the address bar? Like this site has the phpbb icon? That would be neat to be able to make an icon and place in your entry. I promise ill get this, just need a bit more help from you.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:37 amAuthor: CaNNon
copy and paste into note pad, upload it and over wright or post a copy of yours in a code box and I'll edit it here for you. when you put in in a code box before you post make sure you check this off: "Disable HTML in this post"
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:57 amAuthor: Spidermonkey
Ok, ill get the file
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:11 amAuthor: Spidermonkey
Ok, here is the problem. The file that I was looking at, was wrong. It was .php. I did a search for index.html and there are over 250 files. If i look on the public_html folder i dont see an index.html file but i do see the other file you mentioned .htaccess. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Can I just create a new index file? This is confusing the hell out of me. I so appreciate your assistance.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:16 pmAuthor: CaNNon
When you FTP to your site go to the folder that is the
http://www.clan-enmity.com folder (your root folder).
The folder will have
only 1 index.html file, in fact each folder can have only one as it would would over wright the file.
You just can't have more that one file with the same name, in the same folder.
Re: How can I change Address
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:02 pmAuthor: Spidermonkey
Ok, I couldn't find the index file, but i did open the access file... That seemed alot easier, i just edited the redirecting address, and now it works fine. Goes straight to the Portal.php. Thankyou for all your help, i just have no idea where that file is. I looked everywhere.
Any idea, since i cannot find that file, how i can change that little icon in address bar? Anyway, thanks again for everything, im sure ill be looking for more help soon.
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Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:43 pmAuthor: spaniel
Wonderful! Just what I was looking for.
What a great library this help forum is <img>
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Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:05 pmAuthor: spaniel
Spidermonkey - the htaccess file is hidden on a lot of ftp programs so ask your webhost to make it visible to you.
The logo in the address line is your forum/favicon.ico file
Simply delete it and add an icon and name the file favicon.ico after you've uploaded it to your website.
Favicon's hav to be something like 6 x 6 pixels - if u download integramod's one from your files you'll get the dimensions from that.
Re: How can I change Address (Resolved)
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Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:13 amAuthor: obiku
It doesn't help to ask your webhoster to make the .htaccess file visible. Every file where you put the dot (.) at the beginning, will be invisible.
You beter can search in the manual of your FTP-program, how to make invisible files visible.
In WS_FTP you can set the filtering option to -la. That will show all hidden files.
Re: How can I change Address (Resolved)
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Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:16 amAuthor: CaNNon
obiku is correct
Your host would have to change things that could put your site at risk do not lower security on that file in anyway!
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Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:28 pmAuthor: spaniel
oh ok it's just that my webhost (dreamhost) had to make it visible for me b4 i could view it in Dreamweaver. But now i use their webftp and adobe GoLive (not out of choice, mind) and .htaccess is always visible to me.
Re: How can I change Address (Resolved)
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Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:47 pmAuthor: ActiveOpt
Nice post