Topic: Path problems

[N.E.Media]

I've read and read other topics and none of it fixes my problem.

I'm running smf 1.1.10.

I installed sp 2.3.1

Installed great!

If I set to "Frontpage" I get the full sp portal page with blog and article areas and no boards - this replaces my board index page since my b.index page is in the /forum/ root.

Here's what I want:

I want the page I just described (blogs, articles, no boards) as my welcome home page.  at "www.mysite.com".  Which is "/httpdocs/", one directory back from "/forum/".

Then I want users to hit the forum button which will take them to my usual board directory page:  "www.mysite.com/forum" just as it is now.  Where my boards show.  I will add some blocks to the left of the boards.

Very, very much like THIS site that I'm posting on right now.

How do I do this?

Thank you VERY much!

Dan

[N.E.Media]

Heck with it.

24 hours - no help.

[Nathaniel]

24 hours is not a long time to wait for support, especially when we have such a small team.

The "Portal Mode" that you want to use is "Standalone".

Move the PortalStandalone.php file from your 'forum' directory to the '/httpdocs/' directory, then rename it to index.php. You will need to edit the 'SSI.php' url within that file (with a relevant text/code editor of some sort).

You will also need to change the 'Standalone URL' to 'www.mysite.com' or 'www.mysite.com/index.php'.

From your post, I think that you might also be having problems adding a 'forum' button. See this tutorial if that is the problem: General Custom Theme Tutorial

[N.E.Media]

I sincerely apologize for a lack of patience!

I'm used to the rapid fire of smf forum.  I kinda forgot where I was.

Very sorry.

Your answer solved my issue!

Dan

[mudechevy]

You will need to edit the 'SSI.php' url within that file (with a relevant text/code editor of some sort).

Can you please explain this better to me? I would like to do the same and understand everything but this. What exactly do I change and what do I change it to?
Thanks!

[Nathaniel]

You will need to edit the 'SSI.php' url within that file (with a relevant text/code editor of some sort).

Can you please explain this better to me? I would like to do the same and understand everything but this. What exactly do I change and what do I change it to?
Thanks!

You can find the relevant instructions within that file, they tell you everything that you need to know. There is a line that you need to edit.

[mudechevy]

I am getting this error: Wrong $forum_dir value. Please make sure that the $forum_value variable points to your forum's directory.
Here's my file:

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global $sp_standalone;

// Should be the full path!
$forum_dir = 'full/path/to/forum';

// Let them know the mode.
$sp_standalone = true;

// Hmm, wrong forum dir?
if (!file_exists($forum_dir . '/index.php'))
die('Wrong $forum_dir value. Please make sure that the $forum_value variable points to your forum\'s directory.');

// Get out the forum's SMF version number.
$data = substr(file_get_contents($forum_dir . '/index.php'), 0, 4096);
if (preg_match('~\*\s*Software\s+Version:\s+(SMF\s+.+?)[\s]{2}~i', $data, $match) != 0)
$forum_version = $match[1];

// Call the SSI magic.
require_once($forum_dir . '/index.php');

Do I need to change this 'full/path/to/forum'; to '/index.php' or the actual forum /smf/index.php or leave it alone? It loks like I should have just changed this which I did. Call the SSI magic.
require_once($forum_dir . '/index.php


But I tried changing the full/path/to/forum also and still got the error.

[jesustarre]

Just Go to SMF Admin -> Server Config -> SMF Directory

Copy the Ful Directory and change for full/path/to/forum, that it

Regards

[Nathaniel]

Any updates on this issue mudechevy? You need to change the '$forum_dir' value as jesustarre indicated.

[Molly]

I changed my PortalStandalone.php to the index.php file from a previous thread, I don't know where that was. I found it after posting in another thread about the forum botton not showing, another story altogether; anyways.

I went to my forum and edited the configuration to standalone and put a url (http://www.oakgrovehome.com/index.html) in there but put .html instead of .php, I realized later. I cannot load my forum at all. No links work, I get Http 404 error, Http 500 Internal Server Error and this "[an error occurred while processing this directive] " I went back and put my original index.php file back and I'm still getting the same errors.

Can anybody tell me what I did or did not do correctly? If I missed anything or you have any questions ask. I'm just "Ugh" lol.

Molly

[AngelinaBelle]

Portal Standalone Mode -- for when you want your portal in one directory and the forum in another.
(But not in different domains)
 
1) You want your portal page /index.php, but you want your forum at /smf/index.php (or /form/index.php or /<something>/index.php)
 
2) So you install (or have already installed) your forum at /<something>/index.php
 
3) Now, you want to set up your standalone portal.  Find the Standalone Portal file. that's PortalStandalone.php  in SimplePortal 2.3.2  Edit that file, following the instructions you find in it to put in the correct path to your forum.
 
4) Save that file as /index.php, so that when someone comes to your site -- that's the file they'll get.
 
5) Go to /<something>/index.php?action=admin;area=portalconfig;sa=generalsettings and make the following changes:
  a) Portal Mode: Standalone
  b) Standalone URL: /index.php
 
Now, your standalone portal page understands where to find the forum, SimplePortal knows where to find the portal page, and your site works the way SimplePortal is designed to work.