UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Question for Threadsdev Admins

OK, just curious really.

When going to ubbdev.com - you redirect to the Entrance page.

You guys using an .htaccess file for that, or a blank index with a META refresh/forward set to zero ?

An index.php file which looks like this:

I use the same thing, only the index.php file that I have in my Threads directory is an index script that I wrote.

*Dal makes a mental note to release it as a mod*

what is the purpose of these methods?

Chaos - they allow you to place the actual "content" anywhere on your site, yet still utilize only "link.com" as the URL to get there.

Basically it is an immediate auto-forwarder...not necessary but very helpful in a few things I have done in the past.

[]ChAoS said:
what is the purpose of these methods? [/]

By redirecting to the Threads directory I can take full advantage of the ubbt.inc.php file (the Threads library). I could do it from web root, but sometimes certain path variable don't work as expected unless you are running a script from the threads directory...

so the ubbthreads directory path is something like this?

/forum/ubbthreads

What would happen if the actual index.php were contained in the threads directory itself?

My actual index.php file is in my threads directory...

Web root: index.php is a redirect to ubbthreads/index.php which is my actual index page...

Yeah, ours is too.

It's not complicated - just a different way of doing a META REFRESH.

Our files are in www.ubbdev.com/forum just like you see in the browser address bar. We put our IIP at /forum/index.php

When they visit https://ubbdev.com/index.php we just redirect them to IIP as we no longer use a static entrance page.

The PHP header (as noted) is faster than a META refresh (for anyone reading and wondering).

In terms of speed, either .htaccess or the php code above will be speediest, with META refresh after that.