Make Forum the home page

[tony walsh]

VB 4.2.2

I want to make forum.php the home page (the website will be just a forum - no blog or articles).

I have read, in several forums, to change the index.php. They all show this snippet:

/**
* Use the CMS as the default script:
*/

// require('content.php');

/**
* Use the forum as the default script:
*/

require('forum.php');

But my index.php looks like this:

/* Tell forum.php to redirect
to the default url as defined
in the navigation manager */
define('VB_REDIRECT', true);

/**
* If you want to move this file to the root of your website, change the
* line below to your vBulletin directory and uncomment it (delete the //).
*
* For example, if vBulletin is installed in '/forum' the line should
* state: define('VB_RELATIVE_PATH', 'forum');
*
* Note: You may need to change the cookie path of your vBulletin
* installation to enable your users to log in at the root of your website.
* If you move this file to the root of your website then you should ensure
* the cookie path is set to '/'.
*
* See 'Admin Control Panel
* ->Cookies and HTTP Header Options
* ->Path to Save Cookies
*/

//define('VB_RELATIVE_PATH', 'forum');

// Do not edit anything below //
if (defined('VB_RELATIVE_PATH'))
{
chdir('./' . VB_RELATIVE_PATH);
}

require('forum.php');

I have tried changing stuff in this index.php file and no luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[ShawneyJ]

when i was using vb4, i copied everything from the forum.php file over to index.php. so then the url to the forum was just mydomain.com. not mydomain.com/forum.php.
a client of mine done the same thing. although before i did that im pretty sure i went to Forum Home: Options>>Script Name for Forum Home Page change to "index".
not sure if its this you are asking.

[tony walsh]

Thanks for your reply!

Found out how to do it, though.....they have built in a way to do it through admincp.

settings>navigation manager and then select 'set default' from the drop down menu.