Implications of running xenforo from a subdirectory (ie. /community or /forums )

[Digital Doctor]

Information is Power.
Help the newbies !

Could the mods/devs/everyone please use this thread to detail the implications of installing xenforo in subdirectory ? (as opposed to installing it in the root directory).

Information and Implications of installing Xenforo in a subdirectory

(1) Don't install to /forums subdirectory ?
If you do ... your site will have urls like www.mysite.com/fourms/forums - [source]
Note: It appears that xenforo.com itself installed xenforo in a subdirectory called /community

(2) URLs in Xenforo.
When your users are on a page or forum or thread, xenforo adds that to the URL.
/forum - when in a forum
/thread - when reading a thread
/pages - when on a page Q: What is a "Page" ?
/post - when posting

/members - member's Tab
/help - Help Tab
/account - Account Preferences - http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences
/watched - watched threads - http://xenforo.com/community/watched/threads
/search - Search - http://xenforo.com/community/search/?type=post

Takehome message: Most people should install xenforo in a subdirectory called /community - just like xenforo.com did.

(3) If you want other software installed (Wordpress, a CMS, etc.) on your site, you should install xenforo to a subdirectory.
- this avoids clashes with other software's index.php [source]

(4) It might help with /mod rewrites ? (researching this).

How to move your xenforo install from the root directory to a subdirectory

There's very little work involved moving the forum to a sub-directory.
Just move the files and update the URL in the ACP and that's it.

Pretty easy ! Also discussed here.

 

[Paul B]

This has been discussed before but essentially, if you plan to install any other software such as a CMS, or even have a home page, you will not be able to have 2 index.php (or admin.php) files in the root.
For that reason, your forum will have to be in a sub-directory.

I'll see if I can locate the earlier thread which discussed this.

 

[Paul B]

Here's a similar thread related to sub-domains which may also be useful: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-as-subdomain-or-as-a-directory.5713/

 

[FredC]

Your slipping Brogan.. Time to install more RAM..

 

[Digital Doctor]

if you plan to install any other software such as a CMS, or even have a home page, you will not be able to have 2 index.php files in the root. For that reason, your forum will have to be in a sub-directory.

Putting that in the Xenforo installation instructions could help save some future headaches. Is it in there already ?

 

[Paul B]

This is not something that's unique to XenForo.
It applies to any software which has an index.php, or files with the same name as other software which could be installed.

 

[Digital Doctor]

It's actually very easy to put the forum into a subdirectory.
You can create one - ie. /community
move all the XF files over to it
then change your board URL in adminCP and youre done.

 

[Digital Doctor]

If you installed your forum software to your root directory on your server, this might help get your www.yoursite.com landing page to be something other than your forums !

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/library-set-your-own-route-controller-as-homepage.10156/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Added:

(1) Note: everything in the "account" area adds /account/ to the URL. (as seen above).

Account Preferences - http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

(2) watched threads - http://xenforo.com/community/watched/threads
(3) Search - http://xenforo.com/community/search/?type=post

 

[UEG Immunity]

how do i make it so when i go to my website it'll redirect me to the forums and where in the ACP if i need to use it

 

[Digital Doctor]

how do i make it so when i go to my website it'll redirect me to the forums and where in the ACP if i need to use it

You mean you installed Xenforo to a subdirectory ...

www.yoursite.com/community
and when you go to www.yoursite.com you get a blank page ?
you want to redirect www.yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com/community ?

 

[UEG Immunity]

You mean you installed Xenforo to a subdirectory ...

www.yoursite.com/community
and when you go to www.yoursite.com you get a blank page ?
you want to redirect www.yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com/community ?

correct.

 

[Digital Doctor]

In your root directory is a file called
.htaccess

edit that file and add this line.

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://yoursite.com/community/

 

[UEG Immunity]

here go to my website http://ueg-immunity.com/ and you have to click on community in order to go to the forums how do i make it so it automatically redirects to the forums

 

[Digital Doctor]

Do you have a file called .htaccess in the root directory ?
I assume you are on an apache web server ?

heh.
I see you are.

Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.6 Server at ueg-immunity.com Port 80

 

[UEG Immunity]

no i only see htaccess.txt is that the same thing

 

[Digital Doctor]

no i only see htaccess.txt is that the same thing

No.
Looks like someone edited the file in Notepad and the name changed.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Open that file and paste the content here.

 

[UEG Immunity]

#Mod_security can interfere with uploading of content such as attachments. If you
#cannot attach files, remove the "#" from the lines below.
#<IfModule mod_security.c>
#SecFilterEngine Off
#SecFilterScanPOST Off
#</IfModule>

ErrorDocument 401 default
ErrorDocument 403 default
ErrorDocument 404 default
ErrorDocument 500 default

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

#If you are having problems with the rewrite rules, remove the "#" from the
#line that begins "RewriteBase" below. You will also have to change the path
#of the rewrite to reflect the path to your XenForo installation.
#RewriteBase /xenforo

#This line may be needed to enable WebDAV editing with PHP as a CGI.
#RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(data/|js/|styles/|install/|favicon\.ico|crossdomain\.xml|robots\.txt) - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

 

[James]

It's no big deal, you can edit the forums/threads/ that XenForo adds into the URL structure.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/change-forums-route-to-view.22998/

 

[UEG Immunity]

i just want my website: ueg-immunity.com to redirect to ueg-immunity.com/community/index.php