XF 1.2 Site domain not working unless site.tld/forum/

[SniperBrob]

Well long story short, after the long and grueling process of transferring my site over to my new host (which actually was a lot easier than I made it out to be) I am having a problem with my site. When I go to http://hossfactions.com , it tells me there is a redirect loop, but when I go to http://hossfactions.com/forum/index.php it works fine. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

 

[TPerry]

I thought you told me to put the .htaccess in /forum/ not in the root? Anyways... should I just add

RewriteRule ^$ /forum [L]

to .htaccess in my root directory and I should be good to go?

You need the one containing this in your /var/www directory (as instructed ealier)
You need the shipping XenForo one in your /var/www/forum directory (possibly with the ReWriteBase /forum) uncommented.

 

[SniperBrob]

You need the one containing this in your /var/www directory (as instructed ealier)
You need the shipping XenForo one in your /var/www/forum directory (possibly with the ReWriteBase /forum) uncommented.

Weird. I did all that and I'm still not able to access my site with the bare domain. I also never had to do anything like this when setting up my site on my old VPS, so idk.

EDIT: After posting that I went to look at the things I've changed since setting up my website on my new box. I feel like such an idiot... I found out what I did. I'm sorry for wasting your time :/

 

[TPerry]

Weird. I did all that and I'm still not able to access my site with the bare domain. I also never had to do anything like this when setting up my site on my old VPS, so idk.

EDIT: After posting that I went to look at the things I've changed since setting up my website on my new box. I feel like such an idiot... I found out what I did. I'm sorry for wasting your time :/

It's not a waste of time... and to help out others, what was your solution (what had you done/forgotten to do)?

 

[SniperBrob]

@Tracy Perry Well, this was my index.php file originally

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://hossfactions.com/forum/index.php?portal/");
exit();
?>

Then when I switched to my new VPS I never put the /forum/index.php?portal/ part.

 

[TPerry]

@Tracy Perry Well, this was my index.php file originally

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://hossfactions.com/forum/index.php?portal/");
exit();
?>

Then when I switched to my new VPS I never put the /forum/index.php?portal/ part.

It should work with the re-write that I provided (and assuming you've done the routes correctly in XenForo and XenPorta) without an index.php present. Either way works though.