Alternate Default Page? PhpBB Hosting Question

[Ben42]

My wife is looking to add a different home page to her phpbb forum. We could move the forum into a folder, but it would be a big pain in the butt.

On my host they set it up so that home.php would come before index.php or default.php so it was east to make a main page for eInvesting. The problem is her site can't be hosted there for various reasons (it's a dedicated server and a friend is doing me a favor).

Ok, the question is...Is there a host that you know of that is setup with the order home.php (or anything else) and then index.php? I know it has something to do with apache, but I'm out of my realm here.

Any info would be appreciated.

 

[Alan@Coreix]

It is possible to set apache to recognise home.php ahead of index.php, this involves editing the relevant line in apache.conf and restarting apache. However, no reseller/hosting provider will do this as it will potentially cause other clients to have a subpage open instead of their main page.

You have two solutions I can think of

1/. Apache normally has index.html set ahead of index.php, if you set a file called index.html as your main page (even if it just uses headers to redirect to your desired page) then it should load first.

2/. Rename the current index.php file of your phpbb install to index2.php in ftp. Then you can upload a new index.php, if memory serves you can set phpbb to load index2.php as its default page in the admin section.

Alan

 

[Ben42]

Thanks for the info! Appreciate the well thought out post.

Option 1 I considered, but the wife does want dynamic things going on so I'll need to have it php.

I'll definetly research option 2, I think that would be perfect.

Thanks again :wave: