er... what u talkin about, lol my problem was with outlines, not archives o_O

thats my problem there ^ ^

Teck,
THANK YOU SOOOOOO much for answering me. :) Please bear with me, I have a couple more newbie type questions. Am I placing the index.php in the same location as the index,htm was,and also what is the default look for the index.php??? Will I still have my banner and my buttons, and will the page have the look I need or do I need to edit the index.php first, and copy past certain code into the .php file that is currently in the .htm file? (she wonders if she said that right.....)

Beth ;)

I'm concerend about the location of the files. I installed just ast you prescribed, but I just noticed that I don't have an index.htm i have an index.html, and it is under ADMIN. Your instructions prescribe placing index.php in the ROOT. My root is outside of the rest of the installation of VB. My installation begins at FORUMS, then goes to ADMIN on the next level in and so on.

Somehow, I also...um...seem to have an index.php in both my FORUMS and ADMIN folder. But I don't know if it is from VBulletin or VBHome. I don't want to blow up my board.

Help...please...someone... :(

the vbhome index.php 'builds' an html page from various templates in your database. Don't edit it unless you know what you are doing. It will use your forums colors, etc. utilizing whatever you have set for your forums.

Do you have to go to www.yoursite.com/forums/ to get to your actual FORUM homepage? If so, you will see an index.php in the /forums/ directory. This is vbulletin's index... leave it.

What do you see when you go to the root of your domain? www.yoursite.com/
Some hosts will put a generic index.html page there as a 'placeholder'. That gets deleted and replaced with index.php from vbhome.

Ok... just looked at your site. Do you want to keep your current homepage (grime scene) with the links on the left, etc.... or is this what you want to replace with vbhome?

By the way... the index.html in your admin folder is not needed. It's only needed if your host doesn't recognize the index.php
You can delete the /forums/admin/index.html , or just rename it to index.html.off or similar to ease your mind (instead of deleting).

I'm a little confused about what you wish to accomplish.

Do you want to use VBhome as your new website, to integrate your entire site, or do you want to keep your current homepage and use Vbhome just within your forums?

Most people build a site around vbhome (I think)....

If you are looking to keep your existing homepage and have vbhome only associated with the forums, then you will have to make a new subdirectory and move the /forums into that subdirectory.

ie...
www.thegrimescene.com/ existing main page
www.thegrimescene.com/contractors/ vbhome page
www.thegrimescene.com/contractors/forums/

actually.... maybe you could keep /forums/where it is and just add the /contractors/... not sure.

Yes. Will do.

Most all of my files for www.thegrimescene.com are there, and the folders begin for the Miva Merchant store, etc.... There would be an index.htm, and it is for the front page of www.thegrimescene.com which is done in frames.

I want VBHome to be my front page. I do want to add a button to it for access to the Miva Merchant store though. That's very important.

I hope this helps. At this point I am willing to pay someone to get this fixed... any takers???

This is where your vbHL files should be also.

Thanks guys! :) It's working now. Teck, one of your admins helped me also. You guys are the best!

It used to work before, and then we upgraded to Apache2. Is there a way to check myself if it's there, since someone on my end did the upgrade?