VBuletin shows bare skeleton as home page

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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]
.
.
.

--------------- Added [DATE]1494645604[/DATE] at [TIME]1494645604[/TIME] ---------------

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]

--------------- Added [DATE]1494669849[/DATE] at [TIME]1494669849[/TIME] ---------------

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.