Gossamer Forum: Products: Gossamer Forum: Discussion: Re: [agaffin] redirecting index.htm to gforum (carfac)

Hi:

I think the CLEANEST way is to use mod_rewrite. Obviously, you need to do the above, so the .cgi file is treated as a valid homepage...

then I added this into .httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/?$ /forum/ [PT]

Obviously, your paths may bge different.

The beauty of this is that you can "promote" your forum at the base url (in my case, http://forum.bcdb.com/) and that "invisibly" gets rewritten to /my/base/directory/forum/... and then, since you have set up gtforum.cgi as an index page, that is what get's called (/my/base/directory/forum/gtforum.cgi) but the user thinks it is http://forum.bcdb.com/!

Beautiful!

Since I can access and edit httpd.conf, I have not explored .htacces versions of this rewrite. But I THINK that is you have nod_rewrite enabled on your server, you can do sopmething similar in .htaccess.

Good Luck!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

Subject	Author	Views	Date
redirecting index.htm to gforum	blackjack	3607	Mar 14, 2003, 1:55 AM

Re: [blackjack] redirecting index.htm to gforum	Paul	3427	Mar 14, 2003, 2:27 AM

Re: [Paul] redirecting index.htm to gforum	blackjack	3431	Mar 14, 2003, 2:44 AM

Re: [blackjack] redirecting index.htm to gforum	yogi	3423	Mar 14, 2003, 2:57 AM

Re: [yogi] redirecting index.htm to gforum	blackjack	3465	Mar 14, 2003, 3:13 AM

Re: [yogi] redirecting index.htm to gforum	agaffin	3411	Mar 14, 2003, 6:28 AM

Re: [agaffin] redirecting index.htm to gforum	carfac	3401	Mar 16, 2003, 9:08 AM

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redirecting index.htm to gforum

blackjack

3607

Mar 14, 2003, 1:55 AM

Re: [blackjack] redirecting index.htm to gforum

Paul

3427

Mar 14, 2003, 2:27 AM