[Tutorial] Change URLs into Short URL

Intro Section:


If you've just installed your PHPFox, You'd be presented with URLS that look like this:

http://yourwebsite.com/index.php?do=/forum/

of course this is super ugly. If I wanted the forum I wouldn't want to remember to type that in.

So we're going to change it to this.

http://yourwebsite.com/forum

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Tutorial Section:

Step 1: Located htaccess.txt in your root folder where you installed
Step 2: Rename to .htaccess
Step 3: Open up that file with WordPad or Whatever Mac OS Equlivant if you're using that.
Step 4: Verify that it says

RewriteBase /

*Important: If you installed PHPFox inside of a subdirectory you need to set it to

RewriteBase /foldername/

of course replacing "foldername" with the folder you installed it under.

Step 5: Go to your root folder > include > server.sett.php and open up that file.
Step 6: Locate

$_CONF['core.url_rewrite'] = '2';

and change the "2" to a "1"
It should look this now:

$_CONF['core.url_rewrite'] = '1';

Once you're done, save that file and re-upload everything to your host, or put it back into your folder.
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Outro Section:


You're done!

Happy Web'ing