WordPress as a front page ?

  • JohnW63

    (@johnw63)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I have a web site that has PHP-Nuke as the main page for content management but it just provides a link to my forum, which is run on phpBB. To be honest, I really don’t need WordPress to do anything but be my main web site page and hand off users to the forum.

    Do I need to put in all the previous database info from Nuke even if I have no problem starting the main page from scratch ? I don’t think that Nuke and my forum and linked in anyway. Right now I have my ISP sending requests for my web site to the forum directly since Nuke doesn’t work with the latest PHP and my ISP upgraded it to the most recent for security reasons.

    Ex:
    Site…http://mywebsite/

    Forum…http://mywebsite/forum

    Going to the forum works fine, even though Nuke is broken due to the PHP version upgrade they made.

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  • DanielMalone

    (@danielmalone)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    So the only reason you’re using WordPress is to redirect the user to the http://mywebsite/forum which runs phpBB?

    That sounds like it’s not a WordPress issue. A simple PHP file at http://mywebsite/ redirecting to http://mywebsite/forum would work.

    <?php
Header( 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently' );
header( 'Location: http://mywebsite/forum' );
exit;
?>
    Thread Starter JohnW63

    (@johnw63)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t yet have WordPress installed. I only have the web site CURRENTLY redirected because Nuke can not work with the newest version of PHP. I want to turn OFF that redirect to the phpBB forum, as soon as I can. I used to do more articles on the front page and had links to “popular topics” in the forum, but I couldn’t keep up on it, so it has become more a front page that mostly gets people interested in what we do and a link to the forum where all the real info is. Php-Nuke is out of the picture, now, so I need to decide on a new CMS or method of creating a new “portal” to the forum and if it is easy to post new info and make the page look modern, so much the better. WordPress is one of my top choices.

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