creating a homepage

comp builder · 4 Dec 2006 at 15:48

hi i am the admin of the forum www.speedwayrc.com and have being asked to make them a homepage. The forum is hosted on www.atfreeforum.com. What i want to do is make the homepage www.speedwayrc.com and then have a link to the forum and have the forum address as something like www.speedwayrc.com/forum and then add other link aswell. So how can i do this
thanks

TheAlex · 4 Dec 2006 at 16:37

A page with this in the header will redirect to the page you specify, so you could put an index file in a /forum folder.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.atfreeforum.com/whatever">

comp builder · 4 Dec 2006 at 16:50

im sorry but i dont understand what you mean. I cant find a page with that header
thanks

toString · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:08

What is in the file you have at the moment? index.html?

comp builder · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:10

im not sure as the forum was made with a free thing and im not compeltly sure how to edit the index yet (or access the edit page for that matter) does anyone else know?

bourney

gord · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:10

comp builder said:
hi i am the admin of the forum www.speedwayrc.com and have being asked to make them a homepage. The forum is hosted on www.atfreeforum.com. What i want to do is make the homepage www.speedwayrc.com and then have a link to the forum and have the forum address as something like www.speedwayrc.com/forum and then add other link aswell. So how can i do this
thanks

If you want the forum address to be speedwayrc.com/forum then you will have to move the forum to the speedwayrc domain. You will have to install a free form of forum on that site, otherwise you will have to link to atfreeforum from your homepage on speedwayrc.com.

toString · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:13

Do you have ftp or cpanel access to speedwayrc.com??

comp builder · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:15

i have only just become the admin and am still getting to grips with everything. I have just e-mailed the former admin and he should e-mail back soon. Again sorry for being a complete ****** but i havnt a clue what the above is

toString · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:16

Well if you don't have either of those, you're gonna find it hard to make a 'homepage'. Good luck

Van Hellseek · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:27

comp builder said:
hi i am the admin of the forum www.speedwayrc.com and have being asked to make them a homepage. The forum is hosted on www.atfreeforum.com. What i want to do is make the homepage www.speedwayrc.com and then have a link to the forum and have the forum address as something like www.speedwayrc.com/forum and then add other link aswell. So how can i do this
thanks

you can't.

you can't keep the forums where thay are AND change the address. the best you could do is link to them. how are you hosting your new website? can't you just install some new forums there and use the database from your current forums?

gord · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:00

seek said:
you can't.

you can't keep the forums where thay are AND change the address. the best you could do is link to them. how are you hosting your new website? can't you just install some new forums there and use the database from your current forums?

I already said that <slap>

He could try exporting his database from the freeforums place into a supported file type.. csv? and import that back into the ones he sets up on speedwayrc

Van Hellseek · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:07

gord said:
I already said that <slap>

no, you didn't mention the databse.

comp builder · 4 Dec 2006 at 21:01

if i made a homepage etc through freewebs or something like that then could i import the address (www.speedwayrc.com) into that and change the forum back to the default (www.atfreeforum.com/speedwayrc)

bourney