forums..

[Stackhacks]

How do you set your domain to act as a forum?

like: www.somesite.com will be a forum..

Sorry for bad explaination.

[rainboy]

No sure what you want, but guess you want to install forum software, if you have cpanel with fantastico that will be as easy as loging in into your cpanel, go to fantastico, choose one of the forum packages and install.

If you do not have cpanel and fantastico available things get a bit more tricky as you got to install it yourself. First would be finding the forum software which does what you want. Either Payed or Opensource.

I am using phpBB a lot, but there are many (even better) other forum software out there, its just that phpBB is doing everything i need and with the next release it actually does everything + nice to haves for me, but that version is still in beta, looks good though.

Kindest regards,
Patrick

[Vin DSL]

I would try something like this:

Create an 'index.php' file, containing the following, and drop it into root...

<?php

/**
 * index.php (root)
 * Redirect everyone to the forums page.
 */

header('Location: http://www.example.com/your_forums_folder/index.php');

?>

[Stackhacks]

Thanks for replies.

But is there a way I can just set it so the forums will be the site?

[jason]

Fantastico will do this for you. Log in to your cPanel, click on "Fantastico" and find the "Discussion Boards" in the list of available software at the left side of the window. Click on each one and read the description and/or visit the product's site to see if it will fit your needs. When you find something you like, return to the forum of choice's Fantastico page and click on "New Installation." Choose the domain you want to install the forum on and leave the "Install in directory" field bank. Fill out the remaining fields with your site information and click the install button.

The installation may take a minute to complete. When you see a confirmation message, return to your site's home and you should see the forum.

Good luck.

--Jason

[Stackhacks]

I already installed another forum.. is there any way I can do it now?