Turn Your vBulletin On and Off question
 

i am currently building my forum and would like to have others help me start new threads and bring in info before the site is turned on to the public.

my question- is there any way to give permission to these people and not make them an admin? if not what do i do to resrict all admin controls and give them only mod controls

Google .htaccess and use it to restrict who can get onto the site. Then you can have the site 'on' and only allow those that you've given the username/password to the htaccess protection to get onto your site.

I believe there's also been a modification released for this to allow/disallow certain usergroups to bypass the forum closed messaged. Not sure what it was called though

ok thanks- while you guys are here- i just added a Welcome module and my usercp is now gone?? i am using vba

Any questions regarding modifications should be posted in the thread for the modification rather than out here in the main forums.

turn the forum on, and upload an index.html file to the www root. If you type in the domain name the person will see what you put in the html file.

To access the forum, just type in index.php

forumname.com - they will see the index.html file
forumname.com/index.php - they will see the actual forum

you can also change the name of the index.php file. You could to that to hide it from people.

When your ready to open the forum, delete the index.html file and rename the index.php back to index.php