I talked to my hosting provider (siteground.com) and they instructed me to do the following.

1. Go to cPanel and create the forum.mywiki.com subdomain This made a "forum" folder in my "public_html" directory 2. Install phpBB2 using Fantastico onto this subdomain When it asked for the install location I selected forum/phpBB

I followed these instructions and they worked. It said to view the forum go to forum.mywiki.com/phpBB

I followed this link and received the following error message: Not FoundThe requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/1.3.37 Server at forum.mywiki.com Port 80

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Thanks!

Philip B

----- Original Message ---- From: Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 4:40:26 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Subdomain for a forum in a MediaWiki install

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beachboy22@verizon.net wrote:

Hello all,

I am new to hosting so please bear with me, thanks!

I have mediawiki installed on a server with short URL's (mywiki.com/Main_Page). I want to have a forum running on the sub-domain forum.mywiki.com. Using cPanel I set this sub-domain up. cPanel created me a "forum" directory in my "public_html" folder in my server ("public_html" is the same folder that my Wiki is in). I created a quick "index.html" file in the "forum" folder to test this out. When I go to "forum.mywiki.com/index.html" I get a 404 "Not found" error. I am positive "index.html" exists in this directory.

Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

You'll have to talk to your hosting provider about how their subdomains work.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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