CMPS on main domain ?
 

I want to install this on it's own domain. I have my cmps at:

www.stepheniansonline.com/forum/home.php

And forums at :

www.stepheniansonline.com/forum/index.php


I want the cmps to be on the domain like when someone opens the site it should come on the main domain i.e. : www.stepheniansonline.com

Can anyone guide me on how to do that

Thanks in advance!

Mike

I would like to know the same thing.

you put your cmps_index.php at the root of your www folder in your ftp server

i'm french, maybe i didn't understood the question...

... and then rename it from cmps_index.php to index.php (or whatever else your server recognizes as the default file index). Just make sure that you modified your cmps_index.php file to have the correct path in it to your forums.

I'm trying to do the same, and I've now got a renamed cmps_index.php file in my root folder (now called index.php) and still have the default vBulletin index.php in the /forum folder - but when I go to www.mydomain - which now starts off the cmps file, I get these error messages. Is there some other twiddling I need to do?

The error is....

Warning: main(/xxxxxx/public_html/includes/init.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /xxxxxx/public_html/forum/global.php on line 20

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/xxxxxx/public_html/includes/init.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /xxxxxx/public_html/forum/global.php on line 20

Anyone? :)

Is there a fundamental reason why I can't have the cmps_index.php (renamed to index.php) in the root directory and yet still have the default VBulletin index.php (and all other files) in the /forum directory?

Initially I get this error message if I have the cmps_index.php file in the root directory...

Warning: main(./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /xxxxxx/public_html/index.php on line 44

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /xxxxxx/public_html/index.php on line 44

Where line 44 and 45 are

require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
require_once('./global.php');

The obvious reason for the error is that it's not looking in the /forum folder for those files - so if I add /forum to those lines I then get the error I had in post #5...

Warning: main(/xxxxxx/public_html/includes/init.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /xxxxxx/public_html/forum/global.php on line 20

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/xxxxxx/public_html/includes/init.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /xxxxxx/public_html/forum/global.php on line 20

where line 20 is

require_once(CWD . '/includes/init.php');

Is it just not possible to get it to work if you have the cmps_index.php and VBulletin index.php files in different folders? If it is possible, am I missing a setting? What exactly should I have typed into the CMPS CP for the CMPS URL?

Thanks for any help.

CMPS works wonderfully in the root folder. Did you edit the cmps_index.php so that the forum folder variable is correct?

The line in the cmps_index.php file is pointing to the forum folder....

$forumpath = '/xxxxxx/public_html/forum';

And is that the correct full path? If you're not sure then inside of the vBa CMPS download package is a folder called "Extra (do not upload)" and inside of that folder is a file named "forumpath.php" -- Upload that file to your forums folder and run it. That script will attempt to determine the value you want put in the cmps_index.php file.

After that go into you ACP and check vBa CMPS => Default Settings => CMPS URL to make sure that the correct value is in there.

After that go into ACP => vBulletin Options => Site Name / URL / Contact Details and make sure the various URL & path values are correct.

Thanks for the reply Kevin.Yes, it's correct. I ran that script when I first installed CMPS to determine the full path.This may be where I've gone wrong. Given that my cmps_index.php is in the root, and all the other forum files are in /forum - what value should be in here now? When I first installed CMPS it set itself to ..index. That was when the cmps_index was in the /forum directory. Now that it's in root, I expect it needs to change, but what to?They've remained unchanged since I installed the forum way back and I assume have no need to be changed due to installing CMPS. The forum itself is working fine.

Thanks

I've see a few conflicting answers but at least what works for me in that value is the URL to where the cmps_index.php file is. For example, at Cool SciFi with CMPS in the root I renamed cmps_index.php to index.php and then in the ACP for the vBa CMPS settings I changed the location to http://www.coolscifi.com/index.php and at least on all of my sites that works fine.

Thanks Kevin - off to try that now......


Edit: .......and realises that I already had that typed in that setting i.e - http://mydomain.com/index.php when I posted above in #7. This is doing my head in now!

I didnt even edit the cmps_index.php file and mine works perfectly fine. lol. :)

I found out what the problem was!!.....

Embarrassingly it was down to something I had accidentally deleted! When I did a modification that required a slight edit of the cmps_index.php file, I somehow managed to delete this line of code that was above the line being modified......which was kinda crucial in the grand scheme of things!! :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:

So sorry for all the endless questions and tearing out of my hair when it was down to a slip of the backspace key!

Works perfectly now! :)

I am facing a strange problem...

on my webserver, the default page tat opens when i type in www.mydomian.com is 'index.html'

I have index.php(CMPS PHP file) in root directory itself and when i say www.mydomain.com/index.php, it open up CMPS page.

how do i redirect index.html to index.php??

any help is greatly appreciated...
Thanks!

If you want the index.php to be the default page, then all you need to do is delete or rename your index.html to something like indexold.html. Then when you go to www.mydomian.com it will start with the CMPS page.

When I lay the portal page at root some of the images get wrong (It expects them to be in root/images instead of the full path/forums/images). How can I correct that?