Is there a way to test the functionality of this hack without going live? May concern is that the install doesn't alter my index.php or forces my forum to use vbindex.php instead. I want to make sure I have the option to continue to use index.php until I decide to use vbindex.php or rename vbindex.php to index.php if I choose to use that as my main gateway.

I'm not really sure what you mean exactly. If you mean can you still use your forum as before as default after the portal is installed. Yes you can. The portal does not override your forum board setting by taking over the index.php

It's a totally different page separate from the forum in that sence. If you have not installed the portal yet. Take my advice if you decide to install it, and put both the vbindex and vbconfig files in your forums folder instead of the root folder. Thats the best way to go with this!

Thanx Gary for the fast reply and patients. I'm going to try it now. I'm trying to take it easy today and didn't want to start something that I'm not up for finishing. I think I'm ready for a portal now. My forumhome is getting kinda cluttered.

Thanx again for you help

If you have anymore questions or problems during the installation, ask away and I'll help were I can.

things worked fine for me untill yesterday when i upgraded to 3.0.8 and now when i reinstalled vbindex i get this message at the top of the vbindex.php page

as far as i know i followed all instructions exactly.... and have reinstalled this several times and uninstalled it and keep getting the same msg

www.hitecsat.com/forum/vbindex.php

any help would be appreciated

by the way.... thanks in advance for any and all advice... you guys are absolutely great here

Hitec

what is on line 144?

chdir(CHDIR_PATH);

Look in this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=75681

tried the solution.. but no luck i still get the same error when i edit it to './forumdirectory' rather than CHDIR_PATH

erm no.

try:

./var/www/html/forum/

he was giving an example of what to change it to, you don't actually change it to ./forumdirectory.