[kwopper]

Originally Posted by Moniquey

Hello, I have spent a large part of the last 48 hours trying to install this index and am still unable to use it. My problem lies in not having a /forum/ directory, and so vbindex.php is in the same directory as index.php and they conflict. What is the simplest way to separate the two so that each script runs correctly and the paths are all correct?

You have to remember you can have only one "index.php" file in one area. I have vBindex running in the same spot as VBull is.

Before you install vBindex your link to your site would be like... http://www.yoursite.org/index.php

Once vBindex is installed by default you would access the portal page via this...
http://www.yoursite.org/vbindex.php

Now what I have done for my site to make the portal the first page members see is the following...

• login to admincp, vBulletin Options, scroll down the list and select Forums Home Page Options. Change the Script Name for Forum Home Page(by default its Index) So for this example we'll change it to forum.

• Via your ftp change VBulletin's "index.php" to "forum.php"

• Via your ftp change vBindex "vbindex.php" to "index.php"

Now when you login to your site via http://www.yoursite.org/index.php you will be taken to the portal page. To directly access the forums the link would be http://www.yoursite.org/forum.php

vBindex also adds a link to the nav bar to the forums. I hope that helps.