How to Set Forum as Homepage in Vbulletin 4 - forum.php to the default

[BiNd@s]

Hi all, Quick question and prolly a silly one if that...

I want to set this as my main page: http://example.com/forum.php

currently when you go to http://example.com it directs you to: http://example.com/content.php and i would much rather send people to my forums then to my main cms... is this possible to change without effecting SERP's ??

Thanks in advanced

[A6er]

Hi all, Quick question and prolly a silly one if that...

I want to set this as my main page: http://example.com/forum.php

currently when you go to http://example.com it directs you to: http://example.com/content.php and i would much rather send people to my forums then to my main cms... is this possible to change without effecting SERP's ??

Thanks in advanced

In Vbulletin 4 CMS got one home page and forum got another home page. By default vbulletin 4 has CMS home page shown as the default home page.

If you want to set forum as home page you can do it in two ways.

Option 1:
1. Find index.php in the installation folder. Open the index.php file in a text editor.
2. At the bottom find this line
require('content.php');
Comment out this line as with two forward slashes
//require('content.php');
3. Find this line
//require('forum.php');
By default its commented. Take off the two forward slashes to uncomment it as
require('forum.php');

Option 2:

* Find index.php in the installation folder. Rename index.php to something else e.g. index_discarded.php
* Find forum.php in the installation folder. Rename it to index.php
* Login to admin cp
* Expand settings
* Click on options
* Click on Forums Home Page Options from the menu and then click on Edit Settings button
* Find the section "Script Name for Forum Home Page". By default forum is the value in the textbox there.
* Change the textbox value to index
* Click on the Save button