The project I am currently working on requires forums to be located at the root of the website. Overall it's a very simple change, but I thought I'd blog about how I accomplished this.
This requires making changes to the siteurls_override.config (located at the root of the Web directory). If you don't have a siteurls_override.config then add one.
Add the following lines of code:
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/navigation/link[@name='home']" mode="remove" />
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='forums']" mode="change" name="path" value="/" />
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='forums']" mode="new" name="physicalPath" value="/forums/" />
That is it. 3 lines of code and now Forums should show up at the root of your site.
Note: The lines above should be nested within an <overrides> node.
