Question regarding Install

[griffinzx10]

Hello all,
First let me say I wish I would have found this place 6 months ago. I currently have a site that I have Mambo (A CMS) running my main site. I have vBulletin running my forum. My question is this, when I install CMPS and use that for my main page, will I have to change anything in my root directory????? Or will my home page default to the CMPS page..

To try to better explain myself my site is www.tampasportbikes.com
When you go there I have mambo running that portion of the site. If you click on TSB Forum on the Main Menu, you are taken to the forum (which is vbulletin). I would like to use CMPS as my home page for the www.tampasportbikes.com and remove the mambo cms that I am using.

How would I go about doing this?

Also I am using vb 3.0.8 and I also want to upgrad to 3.5.3. I plan on upgrading vb first, then installing CMPS and then removing the mambo software. Will this be extremly difficult?????

Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.....

[faz]

I think its a Good idea wont be Diffcult

[griffinzx10]

faz thanks for your reply... Do you have any other insight as to the first question in my post??
Thanks for your response..

[Brian]

To have the CMPS show up as your homepage you would just rename the cmps_index.php file to index.php, once you have everything set up.

[cyberhypnotic]

I did that and my forum turned into the CMS.

My forum is a subdomain - forum.yoursite.com - so how do I make this possible to be my www.yoursite.com homepage? I've tried changing cmps_index.php to index.php and that didn't work.

I ran the forumpath.php file and got my root directory url. But when I go to www.yoursite.com, I still get the error message for the $forumpath.

Any ideas?

[cyberhypnotic]

*BUMP*

Could someone fill me in on how to do this? I'd like to get this setup sometime soon. Didn't think it would be this difficult.

And don't tell me to make sure I CHMOD the module folder, cause I did that.

And don't tell me to rename cmps_index.php to index.php, cause I did that.

And don't tell me to run forumpath.php for correct forum path, cause I did that.

Everywhere I look, that's the only answer I find, but it's not the right answer. Can I get a little more of a detailed instruction booklet instead of just "run forumpath.php" or "change cmps_index.php to index.php" cause sometimes the simplest answer isn't always the correct answer.

Is it even possible to run vB Advanced with a subdomain?

[cyberhypnotic]

Nevermind, forget it. I ended up having to take care of it myself. Thanks for your quick support though! :rolleyes:

[stonecold]

What did you have to do to fix it? I was looking forward to see the solution before I install it on mine

[cyberhypnotic]

No solution at all. It doesn't seem like you can use this with the forum residing on a subdomain, as in forum.domain.com so I just moved everything to www.mysite.com/forum/ to make it easier on myself.

Apparently, people (Mods or Admin) came and went, reading my question, but never cared to reply. After awhile, you tend to give up waiting on others. I did my best to try and figure it out on my own because everytime someone else asked a question about their cmps_index.php being the site homepage, everybody was saying, "Just change the filename from cmps_index.php to index.php." Well, that's bullcrap cause I did that and my forum was screwed up.

Well, in the time it took to wait for an answer, I ended up just moving everything into a different folder. Thank you support people.

If they care to still share the answer for others to know what to do, that's up to them, but don't hold your breath.

[rsriverrat]

No solution at all. It doesn't seem like you can use this with the forum residing on a subdomain, as in forum.domain.com so I just moved everything to www.mysite.com/forum/ to make it easier on myself.

Apparently, people (Mods or Admin) came and went, reading my question, but never cared to reply. After awhile, you tend to give up waiting on others. I did my best to try and figure it out on my own because everytime someone else asked a question about their cmps_index.php being the site homepage, everybody was saying, "Just change the filename from cmps_index.php to index.php." Well, that's bullcrap cause I did that and my forum was screwed up.

Well, in the time it took to wait for an answer, I ended up just moving everything into a different folder. Thank you support people.

If they care to still share the answer for others to know what to do, that's up to them, but don't hold your breath.

i am sorry u feel the way you do, however i am sure you havnt gotten the answer to your question mainly because what you are wanting to do isnt something that is related to their software.. i may not be a long time user here, and this is my first post, however i am a supermod/vbadmin for a very large satellite forum, aswell as an admin of my own web/mail/ftp server, so i have the experience to partially explain how subdomains work, and all of the forums i admin are subdomains...

subdomains are set by you or your domain registrar, for example a true domain name isnt www.domain.com, a true domain name is domain.com, u would then need to create a name record for that domain to point to www.domain.com (which is a subdomain of domain.com) name records most always point to the original domain, however they can point to whatever domain or subdomain u want, then on the server actually running the webserver the domain name is set as domain.com. if a name record www.domain.com points to domain.com, any html pages in the webserver root directory will be shown to the pc requesting the domain name...

now getting to a real subdomain... apache webservers use virtual hosts for serving subdomains, so u could actually show 2 different websites with the example above... 1 website on domain.com and a totally different website at www.domain.com..

this is just one example of many, and is based on my server here in house, if using a webhost the webpages get stored in your username/pub_html/ folder. the easiest way to do what you are wanting would be to tell apache to redirect test.domain.com to domain.com/forums...

i know this isnt a simple answer, and really isnt an answer anyway, but it should give you an idea of your problem...

Ratt

[Brian]

Nevermind, forget it. I ended up having to take care of it myself. Thanks for your quick support though! :rolleyes:
Wow, some attitude here from someone that's wanting help for a FREE product. Since you asked us not to tell you any of those things above though, we won't. I'll just tell you that it is possible to have the script running with a sub-domain as long as you have everything set correctly.

[cyberhypnotic]

...as long as you have everything set correctly.
That's all I keep seeing for answers, that's why I was so frustrated about it. You say "set everything correctly" and when I do, nothing happens for the subdomain. All I got was "$forumpath not set correctly..."

Every thread I found with someone asking how to set it up as the homepage for the site said "set it up correctly" or "run forumpath.php and that should do it." I was getting tired of seeing that everywhere I turned.

Listen, I don't mean, never did, to get off on the wrong foot with this. My excuse could be that it was very late, I was very tired, I was frustrated with trying to get it to work properly for a subdomain. But, I'll take the blame for this one on account of my impatience.

Here's a suggestion, why not add to the FAQ how to set it up via subdomain? That way, anyone with an issue like this will know how to do it.

If you're still willing to provide support, I'll accept. If you're not going to, due to one misunderstanding, then I'll have no choice but to accept that as well.

[Brian]

I ran the forumpath.php file and got my root directory url. But when I go to www.yoursite.com, I still get the error message for the $forumpath.
This may be the problem... Did you upload the forumpath.php file to your root directory, or to forums.yoursite.com? It needs to be uploaded and ran from forums.yoursite.com to get the correct path. If that doesn't help, can you post what you have your $forumpath set to?

[cyberhypnotic]

I placed the forumpath.php in the subdomain forum folder. Opened it in my browser, this is what it gave me: /home/httpd/vhosts/socialremedy.com/subdomains/forum/httpdocs

[stonecold]

Try opening the cmps_index.php file and putting your Forums path in. Then upload that file to your Main Directory for your Homepage Not your forums Directory. Rename the cmps_index file to index.php and you should be all set.


This is how I got mine to work

[cyberhypnotic]

I did that and it told me that I had the incorrect forum path.

[stonecold]

I uploaded the forumpath.php to the directory where my forums are and ran it. It gave me Home/public_html/forums. I pasted that into the cmps_index.php then uploaded that file to home/public_html. I renamed it to index.php and it came up when i opened my homepage at www.mysite.com.

[Brian]

Is /home/httpd/vhosts/socialremedy.com/ the location that you're uploading the cmps_index.php file to? If so, try '/subdomains/forum/httpdocs' for the forum path.

[cyberhypnotic]

Didn't work.

I'll just leave it the way it is. With the forum in a forum folder. I've now told my members the new url anyway, so they canbe directed properly. Thanks for trying though.