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Can I make the forum (default) home?

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    Can I make the forum (default) home?

    I dont want to turn off CMS but would maybe like to direct people to forum home while building up my CMS content, but still have CMS available for those who click on that tab. It is possible?

    My CMS (Home) page is quite empty for the time being, and would send ppl to forum instead.

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    You can change this in the index.php file. Just set it to include forum instead of content. Open index.php and you will see what i mean.

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    Thanks Brian, I tested again now and both Home and Forum tab points to Forum Home, CMS is not available.
    Maybe some settings needs to be done in vboptions too?

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    I tried set a direct path to domain.com/content.php in content management options page, it didnt help.

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    Check your vbseoCP options for "force forum root as homepage" and make sure that is set to no.

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    Cant get it work, I will try with an index.php which do a 301 redirect instead to domain.com/forums/ and keep current settings, tomorrow.

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    You can also open a ticket and we can assist you on this.

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    Ok, I had to change CMS Home in Vbseo options, it cant be the root folder. So now I set CMS home to content/ and then it works as expected. (And with the same URL in vboptions for CMS tab)

    Then forum becomes home in both root and forums/ folder if I want forum default tab, I solved that with my own index.php in root that redirects to forums/ to keep things consistent.

    I will just revert this once I am ready to launch CMS as website home page and when I have all content in place.

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