I'm starting a site xyzforum.com with phpbb and wordpress . which one should i install on the root directory first ! www.xyzforum.com/wordpress or www.xyzforum.com/phpbb Which is the better way ... I want the Home page to display the forum frontpage ! also, i wnat to integrate the users for both the cms ( wordpress and phpbb) Waiting for your valuable advice!!! Thanks i advance !
I think it's better to display the wordpress one on the homepage because you can always link your forums from wordpress's main page.
I agree with Endurer. Put your blog on the domain root and forum on a sub directory . You can also put a forum rss feed widget which will display the latest threads of your forum on the blog
install a gud landing page in root. and keep the blog and forum in sub domain. blog.xyzforum.com forums.xyzforum.com if you notice digital point also installed in sub domain.
Put wordpress in the /html root. The reason being - its a lot more optimized for search engines then phpbb. With phpbb in the root, your "might" get some of your pages indexed. With wordpress, just about all your pages will get indexed, and you will be able to target keywords better in wordpress then you can in phpbb.
Only if you run a unprotected board.... I have zero spam, and allow guest posting.... You just need make sure the proper procedures are in place.
If you put the forum in a sub directory and say visitors visit forums.website.com, does it still count as traffic for the orginal domain?(www.website.com) Thank god i found this post, I was wondering something very similiar