Trying to link forums to a main home page
 

When people go to my site url, I want them to get a main page (not vbulletin) and I'm going to locate a link to the forum on that page. When I'm setting up the config.php file before installing the vbulletin software, I'm pretty sure I need to change this information:

// ******** FULL PATH TO FORUMS DIRECTORY ******
// On a few systems it may be necessary to input the full path to your forums directory
// for vBulletin to function normally. You can ignore this setting unless vBulletin
// tells you to fill this in. Do not include a trailing slash!
// Example Unix:
// $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';
// Example Win32:
// $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vb3';
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '';

Should I still locate my forum files in the public_html folder, or do I need to put them in a folder in the public_html folder? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.:up:

You don't need to touch that option.

Simply create a directory on your server called forum and install vBulletin in there instead of public_html then upload whatever page you want to use to your public_html directory with a link to your forum.