VBuletin shows bare skeleton as home page

[loua_oz]

After failed upgrade to 4.2.5 , restored my site from backup. However, when going to www.sitename.com, it lands into skeleton like in the picture.

In "Script Name for Forum Home Page" i have "index".

In index.php I have:

if (defined('VB_RELATIVE_PATH'))
{
chdir('./' . VB_RELATIVE_PATH);
}

require('forum.php');

What could it be?

[loua_oz]

In Navigation Manager the default is CSS.

[Dave]

If all the forum files are in the "forums" directory then you need to move everything up one folder.
Also if there's an index.php file but it's not loading it by default, you need to configure the DirectoryIndex to index.php in a .htaccess file.

[loua_oz]

Thank you, I remember doing that years back with .htaccess file. Now, my .htaccess looks like this (autocreated when I blocked 3 IP addresses using cPanel that my provider gives).
What should it look like after the change you are telling me?

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 77.78.208.0/20
deny from 217.182.0.0/16
deny from 51.254.0.0/15

[Dave]

Are you making use of the SEO rewrite rules? You have to upload the .htaccess file which you can find in the do_not_upload folder of the vBulletin installation files.

Adding DirectoryIndex index.php will load index.php whenever the root of the domain is requested, although most webservers should do this automatically.

[loua_oz]

How do you add that? Just like this?


.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
# RewriteBase /forum/

# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# Forum
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]
.
.
.

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Looks like I have fixed it. Thanks for directing me to .htaccess

My site is installed in

public_html/forums

and tens of thousands of pictures are in peer directories like

public_html/pics1
public_html/pics2
...


Found my old

.htaccess which directs into that /forums directory where all VB files are.

.htaccess file contents:

DirectoryIndex index.php

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

#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://forums.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


#Options +FollowSymLinks
#RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]

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My hosting site responded as well with even simpler method:

How to prevent the Index Of page

Log into your cPanel dashboard.
Once in the cPanel, click on the File Manager icon, located in the Files category.
Locate the .htaccess file and open it for editing.
At the top of the file, add the following code:
Options -Indexes
Save and close the file.
Now when someone visits a directory or folder that has no index file, it will receive a 403 Forbidden error instead of seeing a list of the directory's contents. The 403 error indicates the visitor does not have access permissions to view that area.