VB showing index page instead of home page
 

Suddenly, my site shows, upon entry

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/07/36.jpg

Why is that?

Clicking on "forums" goes where it should go.

You haven't done anything and your site is suddenly doing this? Check your options under sitename/url/details

Is your index.php file still in your root directory?

root directory being

/public_html/forums/index.php

yes, the file is there as it has always been.Just today I can see this anomaly

No changes to that file, at least not by me, shows 644 permissions, as expected. The site was working well.

Why don't you open that file and see if it contains correct contents. oh yes, I was thinking you were using the main root as your home. You are using the forum as your home page?

yes, to avoid the annoying CMS page, that has been like that for a year (the CMS junk put away).

Someone advised on this Forum, how to avoid that stupidity created by VB (CMS intrusions) , I have no and will never have any plug ins, my site is all vanilla.
By that advice I put index.php and forum.php into my home directory. It was working well.
Now, not.

Did you use an htacces redirect to redirect the site from the root domain to forum? I would check your htaccess...

Not sure what could have caused this though out of the blue unless hacked, your host did something or another admin.

That looks like someone messed with the .htaccess file or the httpd.conf file - both are server files. Did you do something to either of those? If not, ask you host if they did.

.htaccess is in

public_html/forums

and contains :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ forums [L]

Removing .htaccess makes no difference, as if it is being bypassed.

can we get a link to your site it might help

I don't want the .htaccess in the /forums directory, it is the root that is causing the issue. You either have something in your root .htaccess file that is causing the issue, or it's in your httpd.conf file.