Hi, I've seen sites that have a landing page on their domain.com and forums on domain.com/forums. How do you achieve that with IPB? Do you just change the directory where files are installed? That would mess up everything and cause errors.

 

I've seen sites that have a landing page on their domain.com and forums on domain.com/forums

The landing pages that are outside of IPS root, are not made with IPS. The sites that probably have it run ancient version of IPS. It was earlier possible to have IP.Content in the root of the domain and forums in subdirectory. With the new version (Pages) - it does not work. If you have some example links for what you mean, you can post here, so that one can investigate how it is achieved in certain cases.

 

The landing pages that are outside of IPS root, are not made with IPS

Might not be true, actually - they may have the suite installed at site root, with Pages set as the default application (with its associated default page being the landing page)...."Forums" would then be site.root/forums

Example (this very site)

Pages: https://invisioncommunity.com/

Forums: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums

@Nathan Explosion, that's true. IPS Suite is not installed on https://invisioncommunity.com/forums It is installed in the root of domain. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums is just an application like https://invisioncommunity.com/files/. I believe the topic starter means the case when IPS Suite is installed in subdirectory /forums/. (???) Then it is not possible. In case Forums is just not a default application, then this absolutely possible with Pages. @6ichem, what is the root of your IPS installation? What application is set as default?

 

I believe the topic starter means the case when IPS Suite is installed in subdirectory /forums/

I know you did - but as they didn't mention that explicitly, I just wanted to point out what I did.

You are now asking the right questions...if the suite is installed in /forums/ then it would need to be moved to the site root, and then the fun begins.

Edited January 12, 20214 yr by Nathan Explosion

 

The landing pages that are outside of IPS root, are not made with IPS. The sites that probably have it run ancient version of IPS. It was earlier possible to have IP.Content in the root of the domain and forums in subdirectory. With the new version (Pages) - it does not work. If you have some example links for what you mean, you can post here, so that one can investigate how it is achieved in certain cases.

Yup I know it's not made with IPS, i'm asking how to achieve that where you have IPS on /forum and landing page on the main domain and like I said earlier if you change the directory of the forum from the root to forums (make a new folder naming it forums) that wouldn't work it'll throw a lot of errors

 

@Nathan Explosion, that's true. IPS Suite is not installed on https://invisioncommunity.com/forums It is installed in the root of domain. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums is just an application like https://invisioncommunity.com/files/. I believe the topic starter means the case when IPS Suite is installed in subdirectory /forums/. (???) Then it is not possible. In case Forums is just not a default application, then this absolutely possible with Pages. @6ichem, what is the root of your IPS installation? What application is set as default?

Installed on the default ubuntu server directory www/html and I'm trying to achieve the case where IPS is installed there, how can I make the default domain show a landing page and the /forums display the suite

Edited January 12, 20214 yr by 6ichem