4.2.0 issues - Unable to get CMS to display as home page

If I could get better support here than just "gimmie your password for this and that" , that would be great..

I've got the latest version of both vBulletin (4.2.0) and vbSEO installed. (3.6 RC2)

Everything runs perfectly fine in vBulletin with vbSEO disabled. But with vbSEO on , I get an infinite re-direct loop when solely trying to access the home page.. which is suppose to be my CMS home page.

Even with vbSEO on, everything works fine (forums / cms articles...and all that) ...except once again being able to display my home page (as CMS home page)

So it's obvious , the only issue is a re-direct looping issue going on with the home page.

forum.php always successfully goes to /forums/ as it's suppose to because of the only custom rewrite rule I made in vbSEO here - '^forum\.php' => 'forums/'

the VB 4.2.0 index.php file I left as is. No changes were made.

To summarize the basics , I'd like CMS home page (content.php) to remain as our website homepage. (www.mysite.com) And forums.php to continue to be at /forums/

Even just some help with what settings should be where, would be a great help at this point.

.htaccess has been left as default as it's been for years..and operating fine at that.

And here are some of the current Admin CP settings

Content Management > Site Tab URL > content.php
Script Name for Forum Home Page > forum




As indicated, Articles has been set as Default ^



If I set Forums as default in Navigation manager, my home page correctly goes to mysite.com/forums. If I set What's New as default, the home page correctly goes to mysite.com/activity.php . Only issue is when setting Articles as default...it just goes in a loop forever...firefox error "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

If I could get this resolved by tuesday, that would be awesome. I have disabled my forums currently till I can get this resolved.

Hello,

Find in your index.php:

require('forum.php');

Replace with:

require('content.php');

jesus friggin christ, how come out of all the trouble shooting pages...this was the first.

It specifically says on index.php not to modify that...but it did fix it.

will there be a fix in the next version of vbSEO so we don't have to modify that in the future ?

thanks

Hi Mike,

There's nothing to change on vBSEO. The only one thing required to make it work is to perform that code hack within the index.php file.

This worked for me too. Can't believe VBulletin made the activity stream the default home page.