Quick question before I install v3.0

I have found it easier to install SMF first, then eFiction... reason for that: If you are going to bridge the two together, it would help if you had the info you are going to need to bridge them... which will come from SMF. Also, the bridge materials are within the eFiction download, and trust me, it's easier to place everything where it goes and then flip the switch rather than flipping it and trying to change it afterwards.

Yeah that's what I was thinking.  Only problem I can see with that is that I'm kinda wanting to have efiction at the root of my site and not a sub.  I'm assuming that means I need to upload each folder one by one into my root directory right? I tried uploading the entire efiction351 folder with all the folders under it to my root but only way I could access it was www.mysite.com/eficiton351 and that isn't what I want.

I'd like it to be just going to my site and there it is and my forum as a sub if needs to be that way.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Right, you want to upload the contents of the eFiction351 folder to your root, but not the actual folder itself. This is super easy with an FTP client. I'm not sure how the bridge needs to be configured, though. I think I remember someone saying that since SMF handles login with a bridge, that after logging in the person would be directed to the forums. Not sure if they got it to redirect to the eFiction install or not.

Alrighty, so I got v3 installed in my root and now I'm gonna try to bridge SMF next, having SMF in a sub of the root.  So far so good.  I haven't had any installation errors which is always a bonus.

Let's just hope SMF is that way...

Heh.  If I can get eFiction to bridge to my SMF from a different subdomain, you can do it to a sub-folder. 😉

EFiction: http://logophiles.thirdworldnetwork.org
SMF: http://thirdworldnetwork.org/index.php

I'm almost ready to try the bridge later.  So I need to use the same databasefor SMF that efiction uses right? 

Yeah, I'd assume it to be harder, a lot actually, to link it with a subdomain. 

I mainly just want it to look, as far as within the same theme, like it does here ar eFiction.org.  Looks really nice that way.  I'm sure any plugins/ Mods I put on the board could mess it up though but I'd face that when it happens.

Anyway, time to read some more on bridging.

It's not harder to bridge to a subdomain, really. And yes, the database is meant to be the same.

I'll tell you how I did it...

I loaded eFiction into the subdomain's root folder.

I created a folder named SMF in the subdomain.

I duplicated the SMF files: index.php, SSI.php, and Settings.php from my SMF installation [the 3 things that direct all SMF functions] and placed them into the SMF folder in the subdomain.

I pointed all SMF links in eFiction to the faux SMF index.php...

Voila!

Okay, so before I tried the SMF bridge with my main site I tried a testing subdomain where I made a new install of eFiction with a test database and all.  I tried uploading SMF there, in the subdomain with the test eFiction and had whatever errors people are reporting about a white screen.

Not gonna ask about those errors because I have a different question really. 

It probably would have been easier, or at least I'm reading it this way, to have installed SMF first and THEN installed eFiction right?  Is there a way to backup my eFiction database, then delete the DB and the folders on the FTP and start over.  Naming the DB the same but starting the bridge installing SMF first... then install eFiction again and upload my backup and bring back my old data? 

I just want the forum within eFiction like it is here but without major editing.  I know that may mean going with an older version of SMF and I may be ok with that.  Then again, I could just keep it really easy and have the forum and efiction be unbridged and everyone just deal with it lol.