Index Page on Developing Site

[frm]

I'm about to purchase another license and install it on a live site. However, this will put index.php there.

While I want to view the forum, I want others to view a placeholder page of index.html.

Is this possible to have both and somehow work around the landing page to the actual forum that's turned off?

It'll be running on an NGINX server so unsure if this is possible... maybe have to move it from a folder into the root directory when done? But unsure if that will mess up file paths if I install it that way.

Thanks!

 

[frm]

I think this answers my question, but it's for 1.5.

XF 1.5 - Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ will hopefully provide answers to some of the most commonly asked questions. It has been written in such a way to make it easy for everyone to understand and be as search friendly as possible. It has been divided into sections to make it easier to find the answers you're looking for...

xenforo.com

 

[Paul B]

Just install it in a sub directorry -- e.g. /test -- then move the installation to the root once it is ready to go live.

All you need to do is update the Board URL in the ACP.

 

[TPerry]

Just as an aside, typically most nginx installations will default to serving (if it exists) the index.html page prior to index.php. You have to specifically append index.php to the domain if you want that served instead of the .html file.

 

[frm]

Just as an aside, typically most nginx installations will default to serving (if it exists) the index.html page prior to index.php. You have to specifically append index.php to the domain if you want that served instead of the .html file.

I'm running CMM so don't know how it deals with it...

 

[TPerry]

I'm running CMM so don't know how it deals with it...

Pretty sure you can modify the nginx.conf in /usr/local/nginx/conf/ and find the index index.php index.html index.htm and change the order up so that it looks like index index.html index.htm index.php so that it serves those first and index.php as the last option if the first two don't exist.

 

[frm]

Pretty sure you can modify the nginx.conf in /usr/local/nginx/conf/ and find the index index.php index.html index.htm and change the order up so that it looks like index index.html index.htm index.php so that it serves those first and index.php as the last option if the first two don't exist.

How would I override that as the admin though?

 

[Paul B]

What @Tracy Perry means is you would manually navigate to site.com/index.php but all other visitors who accessed the domain would be redirected to site.com/index.html, for which you would have a landing/holding/splash page.

 

[frm]

What @Tracy Perry means is you would manually navigate to site.com/index.php but all other visitors who accessed the domain would be redirected to site.com/index.html, for which you would have a landing/holding/splash page.

I'm assuming that this would not allow for friendly URLs though?

 

[TPerry]

I'm assuming that this would not allow for friendly URLs though?

Shouldn't affect them if you are simply rearranging the index page served first. It does require SSH access (which I assume you have if you installed CentMin) to go to the config file and edit it to reflect which is served first. As @Brogan said, your normal visitors would be served the HTML page you create but you would have to use the format of site.com/index.php to actually hit the forum site instead of the default HTML page.
You DO need to be aware that if you are using multiple domains under CentMin you WILL NEED to make sure that you have no idex.html/htm in the other sites root directory otherwise they will see the default landing page that CentMin has if you change the nginx.conf as it applies to all domains you have.


This is my wordpress site when I use the /index.html to go to since it's served after index.php by default.

 

[frm]

I'm just going to put up a basic auth. I don't need a landing page unless I plan on collecting emails, and even then, would I get any subscribers? I'll just order another XF2 and build it up enough to launch.

But awaiting an answer for NGINX conf:

Nginx - SSL - Old CMM vs New CMM Force HTTPS WWW

Please fill in any relevant information that applies to you: CentOS Version: CentOS 7 64bit Centmin Mod Version Installed: 123.09beta01 Nginx Version...

community.centminmod.com

 

[TPerry]

If you are wanting to force WWW on the domain, it won't be in the nginx.conf but in the .conf for the domain. That is created by option 2. It should ask you if you want to use SSL or not also.
This is what works for me (I force non-WWW, but I've changed the example to use WWW). This is in the config file located for the domain in the /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d directory.

## HTTPS-DEFAULT
 server {
 listen [2604:180:0:5::5]:80;
   
   server_name astrowhat.com www.astrowhat.com;
   return 302 https://www.astrowhat.com$request_uri;
   include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
 }


server {
  listen 443 ssl http2;
  listen [2604:180:0:5::5]:443 ssl http2;
  server_name astrowhat.com www.astrowhat.com;