CMS in root?

[jefferis]

HI folks, in version 4.1.5, there are instructions in the index.php file for changing the location of the CMS page, and I've followed them as best I can. I placed the index.php at the root, one level up from my forums. I uncommented the line in the index file to read:

define('VB_RELATIVE_PATH', 'vBforum');

which is the location of our forums.

Cookies are set to /
In the URL settings in Admin I set it to our root: http://www.igotaevo.com
As far as I can tell, there is no need to do rewrites for urls in the latest version or to upload the vb_dir.php file as in the past....
Anyone have a current tutorial or idea on what might be going wrong?

the error I'm getting is:

 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/igotaevo/public_html/index.php on line 1