Stuck on Forum Home......Dummy Needs Help Please

[Toplink]

Hi,

I am using ver 4.2 and am a fairly novice user. I made a recent change to my site that may have screwed things up..........

I didn't want the default page to be the what's new tab. So after reading somewhere how to change that setting (using settings/navigation manager) I changed the default page to the Forum Home.

All was fine, so I thought.

Now my site is 'stuck' on Forum Home. Whatever link you click, it stays on that same page.

I'm sure the solution is really simple, but I just can't find it, sorry.

Any ideas?

I've searched around, and others seem to have had the same issue, but there were never any solutions........

This is my site:

http://www.supplychainfocus.com/forum/forum.php

[Lynne]

I'm not stuck on that tab.... if I click on What's New, it is the What's New tab that is highlighted. (You only have a Forum and What's New tab).

[kh99]

I think I see the problem - you can't go to any forums or threads, it always redirects you back to forum.php. But I don't know why that happens.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Go to your Admin CP, Settings>Content Management>Default Page

Make sure you have the following in the field: 1-Index

That should fix the problem

[Toplink]

I think I see the problem - you can't go to any forums or threads, it always redirects you back to forum.php. But I don't know why that happens.

Yep.............that's the problem.........

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Go to your Admin CP, Settings>Content Management>Default Page

Make sure you have the following in the field: 1-Index

That should fix the problem

Thanks.

But...........I don't have that menu option.
Admin CP, Settings>Content Management>Default Page

Maybe a different version? I'm on 4.2.

I did find a similar setting here:
Admin CP, Settings, Options, Forum Home:Options, Script Name for Forum Home Page
It had index in the field.
I tried 1-index
No change........

[Lynne]

Try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit includes/config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

If so, Create a new style with no parent:

Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Style
Parent Style: No Parent Style
Title: Default vBulletin
Allow User Selection: Yes
Save

Then browse the site using that totally default vbulletin style - do you still have the same problem?

[Toplink]

Thanks, but sounds a bit too technical for to undertake.........

[Lynne]

Reread what I wrote - it really is not hard and they are two basic troubleshooting steps every admin should know how to do. The alternative is to leave your site unable as it is.

[Toplink]

I take your point. and Thanks. I have a tech guy who does all this stuff and my other sites, just he is away on holiday at the moment. I'll have to leave it for his return then.

I'm just surprised that my changing a simple menu setting screwed things up, and was rather hoping a another simple menu setting would fix it :-(

[Lynne]

Well, why don't you just put it back to how it was?

[Toplink]

Well, why don't you just put it back to how it was?

Yep, tried that. First thing I tried. ......... No luck.

Just worried I will screw things up even more now.

I'll just havve to leave it 'as is' for now..........

[Lynne]

Are you sure you didn't touch any of your files also? It's like there is a redirect in place that no matter what you put as the URL (the page source has the correct URLs), you get redirected to the forum page.

[CAG CheechDogg]

That is what I think too , he has to have a redirect, look in your htaccess file and look for redirects.

[Toplink]

Are you sure you didn't touch any of your files also? It's like there is a redirect in place that no matter what you put as the URL (the page source has the correct URLs), you get redirected to the forum page.

Nope, didn't touch any files. I wouldn't know how to.

Only changed the settings in Settings/Navigation Manager. Making Forum the default, instead of What's New.

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This is the htaccess file........

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /forum/

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

#--------------------------
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
#--------------------------


Double Dutch to me. Does it look OK?

P.S. Seems to be two copies of this file. One in the root and one in the forums folder.

[Lynne]

Since you are not running vbseo and you are not using Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs, you should not have any .htaccess files. I'd suggest renaming them (like to a.htaccess) and then seeing if you still have the same problem.

[Toplink]

thanks, I'll try that

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Thanks, that seems to have worked! Your help is very much appreciated.

When my tech guy gets back we'll have to work out what went wrong and how to get VB SEO working. I thought it was!

But at least we are back up and running.

Many thanks guys.

[CAG CheechDogg]

I didn't notice last time I saw your htaccess but the following is the redirect that was causing you to always go to you Forum Home:

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

Just remove that from your htaccess file and you will be fine.