I'm not sure how to word this without further confusing myself or any poor soul reading it, so I'll try and bullet point what I think (hope) are the relevent points:
- I have a website hosted by Dreamhost (so, Apache, yes?) that has PHPBB installed to the root.
- I would like to install Joomla and use this as the "index page" instead of the forum so that when you go to [spam].com, instead of seeing PHPBB, you see Joomla. I am happy to install Joomla manually rather than using Dreamhost's one-click install (plus, that's only using 2.5 and I might as well go for the newer, shinier model)
- I don't want to delete the PHPBB forum and would, eventually like to bridge the two (probably with Rokbridge, as they have matching themes for both & I'm lazy as hell)
- I know that you can redirect Joomla from a subdirectory with htaccess and while I've moved PHPBB from a subdirectory to root before, I've never done it the other way around or with another database to consider. I'm assuming it's possible though?
So err... I think what I'm trying to say is, if I move PHPBB from root to a subdirectory and *then* install Joomla to root will it all work without destroying existing data and / or the internet? Also, would I need to add Joomla to the PHPBB database or would they work separately?
Gold star and a cookie for anyone who made any sense of that and thanks in advance for any help offered
