How to Set Forum as Homepage in Vbulletin 4

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How to Set Forum as Homepage in Vbulletin 4

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