moving forum to subdomain

[atmo5ph3r]

hi

my forum installed in root dir, i wanna move it to subdomain

forum fully indexed in search engines, and visit from search engines is very good.

now i want to know if i move forum from root dir to subdomain, what happening to indexed pages ? any way to fix this issue ?
i could make sample page like SHOWTHREAD.PHP and redirect it to forum new path !!!

but i'm not sure :(
any idea or any suggestion ?

[atmo5ph3r]

any answer ?

[Speysider]

A subdomain is just a domain that points to a specified folder.

All you have to do is go into your cPanel or whatever hosting panel your hosters provide you, go into the Subdomains page and create a subdomain. Make sure that you point the domain to the right folder!

[atmo5ph3r]

thanks
but i dont wanna point sub-domain to root
i wanna move forum with all files to sub-forum, and make root folder for my homepage ...

[Speysider]

Where is your forum located? If your forum is in the root directory (public_html), create a new folder called forums in the public_html, then move all other folders into the forums directory. Then create a subdomain that points to /public_html/forums.

example:
/public_html/forums

Subdomain could be forum.yournamehere.com (points to public_html/forums)

[atmo5ph3r]

my forum located in /public_html (ROOT Directory)
now i want to move it to /public_html/forums

but i wanna know it, if i did it, my indexed pages in search engines, and google page ranks, all of them gonna to down ?

any way to move to subdomain with keeping indexed pages ? :D

[Speysider]

If you redirect your forums from public_html to public_html/forums, then it should be fine.