This tutorial is about how to setup a website after you have setup a forum. That means, you have a forum, and are wanting to add a website. This tutorial will show you how to create the website in your root directory(Example: http://domainname.com), while your traffic gets redirected to your forum while you are creating it, until you're ready for guests to see it.

This method is opposed to setting it up in another directory, then moving it(particularly more time consuming if you're site is PHP based).

First of all, you are going to want to setup a redirect from your root directory to your forum directory. To do this, login to your CPanel, then under "Site Management Tools" goto "Manage Redirects".

On this page you should see your subdomain of trap17 with an input box at the end. Leave this box empty. Doing so will redirect your root directory. Now moving across to the next box, type in your domain/subdomain where your forum is located. For example: "http://mydomain.com/forums/". Dont forget to use www. if your forum has problems without. Some forums will log you out because of cookies if www. is or isnt included in the URL. Leave the drop-down box on temporary, and click "add".

Now goto your domain/subdomain in your browser. You should be redirected to your forum. If not, read back over the redirecting part of the tutorial and see what you did wrong. If you use an index.php file in your root directory, this method will not work(unless you use .html, but it is easier to use this method)

Next is to install/upload your website. This should contain and index file. Goto your domain this time adding the index file to the url. For Example: http://yourdomain.com/index.php.

Now all that is left to do is create your website. It is in it's final location so there is no need to move it anywhere, and when it is finished, you just have remove the redirect in your CPanel, and its all done.

 

 

 

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or you could just create it as index.php then move the forum later

i believe index.html has read priority over index.php

you can experiment around and see which one is read first by putting an index.php, index.htm, and index.html in the home folder... there are many ways to develop while having a forum up and running, nice guide!

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This is just rgardin priority.

The thing about priority should be checked with apache since in configuration file of apache there is prority and depends how your apache server is set up and which priority is written first.

Also I would like to note eventhough this might not be needed said important thing is that this depends on variaous cases so the problem is that one operation that is procedure on one system might be completly different.

 

 

 

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Or you can always combine the two. Have a Forum embedded into your site.

http://www.trap17.com/forums/adding-aef-fo...cms-t51956.html

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