Converting your nuke site to a psuedo-phpbb one

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:51 pm

I am very busy at the moment and don't have the time to keep my front page news articles up to date so I've converted my phpnuke site to a psuedo-phpbb one but with all the benefits of phpnuke - Web Links, MS Analysis, Hack Alert, Protector, Recommend Us, IP Tracker etc.

To do this just make your forums the front page module instead of news and then turn off unwanted blocks and modules. You can see what I mean by visiting my site.

The only thing I found wrong was that the forums did not flag new posts for some reason when I logged on. However, if clicked on forums in the menu, I found that once I got there the new post indicators were there.

To get around this I added an .htaccess file to my root directory with this command in it:

Quote:

Redirect /index.php http://www.mysite.com/modules.php?name=Forums

Now as soon as I access the site new posts are showing.

Doing it this way saves all the hassle of converting to phpbb and losing the phpnuke benefits. And you can always go back to a full phpnuke site with a few admin changes.

This may all seem to be an obvious thing to do but I have gone to the trouble (and it IS a lot of trouble) of converting nuke sites to phpbb (and vice versa). And I still regularly see requests on forums on how to do a conversion and there really is no need.

Everything seems to be working just fine but if anyone can see a flaw(s) in my method I would be interested in hearing about it.

Cheers,
Ron....

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Just for curiosity, rather than having the server do the redirect, have you tried just putting the redirect in index.php?

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:05 am

I don't have any idea how to do that, Raven.

Is there a benefit in doing it that way?

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:15 am

In index.php add these 2 lines right after the opening <? tag

Code:

header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/modules.php?name=Forums");


exit;

Run timing tests both ways and see which is faster.

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:32 am

Yes, that seems faster. Thanks, Raven.

I just had a horrible thought: would what I have done plus this redirect, cause a bypass of hackattempt.php and Protector (which is activated in the root header.php) ? Confused

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:37 am

I don't know about Protector but you should be ok with my script. My script is called from mainfile.php and modules.php starts off by calling mainfile.php.

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:38 am

Good news.

I tested HackAttempt, Protector and Chatserv's admin fix from the other day and they all work!