Hi all

imo this should be possible. I bought a domain name and paid for hosting. My site is still under construction, however. Would it be possible for me to get started with just for example mydomainname.com/forum without an existing site, or does a discussion forum only run alongside an existing website?

Thanks

Yes, just install some forum software under that directory and you're ready to go. Your hosting company should be able to help you with this.

See if you have Fantastico in your web panel .... Install of one the forum scripts into a 'forum' folder. 35 seconds of work ....

Fantastico, or Software Vault of one of the many other tools that allow you to add scripts to your website with a button. If your hosting provider don't have that maybe it's time for a change. Let me know if you need assistance with this, I can give you a few pointers.

Fantastico, or Software Vault of one of the many other tools that allow you to add scripts to your website with a button. If your hosting provider don't have that maybe it's time for a change. Let me know if you need assistance with this, I can give you a few pointers.

wow, didn't know that it was that simple. I will contact godaddy.com tonight and request additional info.

Cheers

Fantastico, or Software Vault of one of the many other tools that allow you to add scripts to your website with a button. If your hosting provider don't have that maybe it's time for a change. Let me know if you need assistance with this, I can give you a few pointers.

wow, didn't know that it was that simple. I will contact godaddy.com tonight and request additional info.

Cheers

You should have forum software called 'SMF' in your GoDaddy application vault. Pretty much one-touch installation.

One more suggestion - since you only want a forum, but suggest that someday you may have "the rest of the site" at some point in the future.

Remove the "coming soon" index.html page, and upload a page with one line of code:

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

This will tell any web browser to your website to immediately forward to the /forum directory.

Then at a later date, when you add the rest of the site, just replace the index.html with whatever you want.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh for more info.

Cheers,

BP

Fantastic extra info for me to absorb.

Appreciate that.