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Never mind – got it sorted, turned out to be a hosting issue.

No response so far… I thought someone here might know the answer to this!

To be clearer – I have one account on my ISP, and the website I run is currently using WordPress.

I want to install a completely separate phpbb3 board on the same server and referencing a completely separate SQL database, that has absolutely nothing to do with my WordPress site.

I thought that I would be able to do this easily because the phpbb3 stuff lives in its own phpBB3 folder, but when I uploaded the phpBB3 folder to the server wordpress gets in the way by producing a “Not Found” page when I point my browser to http://www.evildrganymede.net/phpBB3/install/index.php instead of the phpb33 install page.

I even tried accessing other php pages in the phpBB3 install folder via my browser and it gave me the “Not Found” page for those too.

Do I have to rewrite the .htaccess page (if so, how?)? Is this even possible to set up at all? Or would I have to put the phpbb3 board on a different account/website package on my server?

Never mind. Seems to be back up now, guess it was a temporary glitch elsewhere…

I missed something :). subscribe2 does have a sidebar subscription widget, and it seems to work for what I want it to do.

anybody?

I figured it out. I’m not sure what happened first time when it went all screwy, but the solution is to change the code I showed in the snippet above, and then also change the width in this part of the code beneath it:

#primary {
   position: relative;
   float: left;
   width: 500px;
   padding: 10px;
   }

The width entry in this code snippet should be adjusted to a value of (500+ (new width -780) ). So if the new width value (set in the first code snippet) for the full blog is 1000px, the new width for the main window is 500+(1000-780) = 500 + 220 = 720px.

If you have a custom header image then that needs to be altered too, but the default is to set it at 780×200 and if you need a larger one (e.g. 1000×200) then it doesn’t display properly. I couldn’t figure out how to rectify that, but I did some clever tweaking of background colours and alignment with the 780×200 image and it works now.

Hopefully that’s of use to somebody!

Still looking for something here. I tried subscribe2 but that totally isn’t what I want (unless I missed something. I don’t want to have to set up a separate page where people have to go to in order to subscribe, I want it just to be there in the sidebar).

This is what I’m looking for: I want there to be form on the sidebar in which people can enter their email address, and I want there to be a button to click beneath or above it that says “email subscription” (or whatever I want), and when they do that they’ll get an email alert whenever a new post is added to the blog.

Surely there’s got to be something like this out there? What do others use for it?