installing xenforo in root dir question?

[George]

If I was to install xenForo in to the root dir , can I rename index.php to forum.php without any errors?

I do not want the forums as the home page for the site but would like to install xenforo in the root dir.

 

[Paul B]

If I was to install xenForo in to the root dir , can I rename index.php to forum.php with any errors?

It's not as simple as that, you would have to edit some of the core files.

It was discussed previously but I don't think anyone ever actually did it.

 

[George]

I do not want to have to edit that every time. See I made my dir name "forums". So now when I go to a forum I have forums/forums in the domain structure. So I figured I would put xenForo in the root dir but not have the forums as the home page. So now back to the thinking box.

 

[Paul B]

Presumably you plan to install something else in the root which also has an index.php file?

Can't you rename that one instead to something like home.php?

 

[George]

But every time you go to domain.tld you would always see index.php as default. Which in this case is the forums.

 

[Paul B]

Not necessarily.
You can add DirectoryIndex home.php to your .htaccess file which will load that by default.

I should stress though that I haven't tested this so can't confirm how it will work with other software in the root.

This is ultimately why I decided to install my forum in the /community directory - to avoid this very issue.

 

[SneakyDave]

I had the same situation, but I just renamed my "forum" directory "community" like it is here on xF.

The other problem that people mention is that if their site name is "xxxxforums.net", there's a little bit of duplication in the URL's with "xxxxforums.net/forum/", but I'm not that picky.

 

[SneakyDave]

Not necessarily.
You can add DirectoryIndex home.php to your .htaccess file which will load that by default.

Yes, if you're running Apache, you'd have to add it to your .htaccess file that came with xF, as that would be the .htaccess file in the root directory that would be served. So you might run the chance of overwriting that .htaccess file on an xF upgrade.

 

[Paul B]

So you might run the chance of overwriting that .htaccess file on an xF upgrade.

The .htaccess file isn't included in the upgrade package, for that very reason.

 

[SneakyDave]

Oh that's right!

 

[Onimua]

With the help of this you can actually be able to do that.

 

[George]

No other ideas huh?

 

[rEd86]

The "DirectoryIndex" suggestion that Brogan made does exactly what you were asking. So when you go to:

http://domain.tld/

the "home.php" file would be displayed. (or whatever the default page you define with DirectoryIndex) index.php is just a standard default page, which can be overwritten as discussed.

Is there more that you are trying to do that would prevent this solution from working?

--Ed

 

[George]

I thought it would have been a way just to rename the index file. Maybe the devs will give us the option in future versions.

 

[George]

Plus when I add what Brogan said index.php gets redirected to home.php so the forums do not work at all.

 

[PeterT]

If you name your home page index.html it should take priority over index.php

 

[George]

I would like the home page index.php and the forums forums.php just like any other site. I can not run php code in the html file.

 

[PeterT]

You can
http://php.about.com/od/advancedphp/p/html_php.htm