How do you set up a Vbadvanced Forum Website?

MysticVenom96

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I registered a website name and I want the main page to be a Vbadvanced Forum board. I dont know anything about web design or setting one of these up? Is this something I can do myself or am I better off letting a pro set a page up for me?
 
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You can do it yourself; it's pretty easy. Download vbAdvanced, and go into your Admin CP. There is an option near the bottom (left pane) that says something like "Plugins & Products". Go to the "Manage Products" subheading and go to "Add/Import Product" and upload the .xml file that came with vbadvanced. I think the default vbAdvanced page is "cmps_index.php", so you will need to make a redirect to go to this page. It should be the same path as your forum's index page, but with a "cmps_" in front of it. So if your forum was www.yoursite.com/forums/index.php, your vbAdvanced page would be www.yoursite.com/forum/cmps_index.php. There are two ways of setting up a redirect to do this. If the server runs on Apache, you can create (or edit the existing) .htaccess file on the root of the public_html directory. If this file is there, make this the first line:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cmps_index.php

The "/index.html" is the page that would be loaded by default if you typed in www.yoursite.com. The "http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cmps_index.php" is the page that you are redirected to. So if your site doesn't follow the above format exactly, just change that URL to your forum's vbAdvanced page. This is the best method to use if your server supports it.

If the above method doesn't work, you can use a META redirect, which will work on any type of server. To do this, add the following code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags in your index.htm file in your public_html root directory.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.yoursite.com/forum/cmps_index.php">

The number after "content" is the number of seconds to wait until redirect, which in your case should probably be "0". The URL is the address to your forums.

To see an example of the first method in action, you can type in www.pastreet.com, which will take you to my forums (in very early stage of construction). You will be automatically redrected to my forum homepage, which I think is www.pastreet.com/forum/cmps_index.php

This method I described takes you from the domain root directly to the vbAdvanced page. If you have a main site, and instead want to be redirected to vbAdvanced only when clicking a link to your forums, you would put the META redirect in an index.htm file located in your "/forum" or "/forums" directory.

To edit the layout / options of vbAdvanced once it is installed, go to vBa CMPS in the left pane of the Admin panel. It is near the top.

I'm not the best at explaining things, so if this isn't clear, let me know and I can provide further clarification. Or if you give me the proper information I can write up a redirect for you. Hope this helps.
 
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Thank you so much for that info, I hope I can get my page started and up and running by the end of the week. Does it cost money to use this? Do you have to buy a license or is there afree version?
 

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