Subdirectories? Pandaa PLEASE help!

[Moneyman]

(FYI, I'm using MyBB 1.6.9)
Hey, this is a message to pandaa and all of you who are there that know MyBB well.
I just made an account on freetohost.org, and was making FTP files. It let me create my own subfolder, so I chose Forum as the subdirectory.
Now, I uploaded all the MyBB files needed, and I saw many videos on YouTube that did EXACTLY the same thing as I did from the beginning, until they went to the URL website.com/install. When they did it it was normal and perfectly fine. When I did it, there was something else: the page didn't exist, and I had to go to the subfolder website.com/forum/install instead of website.com/install.
I don't get it. At all. Now, here's the fishy part:
At the installation process, when it has the Forum URL box, I typed in website.com, website.com/, and retried many times as I wanted the forum to be in website.com, not website.com/forum. Even tho I put website.com, website.com/ as the forum URL, it was changed to website.com/forum/ at the end. How fishy is that???
And it happens now and then that my forum constantly doesn't have table structures and is disorderly, making me restart the process from beginning.

Please help, I'm a first time noob but I can assure you I did exactly as MyBB wiki and youtube videos showed me to. That didn't work at all. Now I'm utterly confused.

PS: Sam, owner of freetohost.org, told me that he can install my forum on the root domain. Why can't I do that myself I was wondering? How else would other forums have links such as forum.com/upgrade instead of forum.com/*subdirectory*/upgrade?

Oh god, this is twisting up my mind, please help..

 

[kavin]

Its not so hard to understand.

You should upload MyBB files to the root folder of your host. Not into a subdirectory.

 

[Moneyman]

Except that it doesn't give me the ability to access the root folder. When creating an FTP account is always asks me what Subdirectory I would like, and when I don't put anything it says this field is required.

Help?

 

[kavin]

Hmm. Does your host comes with Cpanel or any such control panels?

 

[Panda©]

It i not fishy mate, you own the domain website.com but your forum URL is website.com/forum. This is because you have added all your files to the sub directory, the easiest fix is to go back to your cpanel and simply ad a redirect from website.com to website.com/forum.

Basically once you do that your visitors can go to website.com to access your forum.

Your other alternative to restart is to use your ftp client open Public_html and upload all your files there

 

[pandaa]

When you create a FTP account, just tell it to have either "/" or "public_html" as the sub directory. Then you should be good to go. It's just a problem with how you're uploading it though, not a MyBB problem. 🙂

 

[Moneyman]

@kavin, Yes of course
@thanks for letting me know Pandac
@pandaa It's like this:
website.com/[text box]
That's the problem 🙁<br /><br />-- 13 Jan 2013, 22:31 --<br /><br />Oh and @Pandac, I've seen so many forums with website.com/index as their forum page, why wouldn't I be able to do that?

 

[J Greig]

Except that it doesn't give me the ability to access the root folder. When creating an FTP account is always asks me what Subdirectory I would like, and when I don't put anything it says this field is required.

Help?

You can't leave it blank obviously. If you delete what's in the text box, how will it know where to install to? For the root, just type / by itself.

Oh and @Pandac, I've seen so many forums with website.com/index as their forum page, why wouldn't I be able to do that?

You can have it as website.com/index.php if you upload it to the root.

 

[Sam]

Except that it doesn't give me the ability to access the root folder. When creating an FTP account is always asks me what Subdirectory I would like, and when I don't put anything it says this field is required.

Help?

That is because there is a default FTP which allows you to access the root. It is the FTP username with your password upon signup... 🙂 http://cpanel.freetohost.org/files/ftp-access

-- 14 Jan 2013, 15:37 --

BTW- I've set up Mybb. http://fiverrclonetest.gb5.co/
Username: admin
Password: (One I changed your account to after support contact 😉)

I will still extend the offer with regards to http://www.holderhost.com.

 

[Moneyman]

Awesome! This is fixed guys!