Joomla and vBulletin in the same directory
 

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Here is my situation. I'm running my site for almost 3 years now. With over 80,000 members, we are a pretty big community. Till now, my site consisted of a forum with vBAdvanced installed as the frontpage. I've always thought that vBAdvanced slowed our progress down and we were in need of a proper site.
For the past months, I've been working on a new site using the Joomla software. The new site has a separate database and you won't be able to login or register an account on it. First I thought to move the forum to a sub-directory called "forums". But now someone on vBulletin Forums told me that it's not such a smart and necessary move for the search engines because the urls will change and the ones who are already indexed won't work any more. He told me to just move the new site to the root directory, together with vBulletin.

My question is if this will work and if there won't be any complications and conflicts, having vBulletin and Joomla in the same directory. If it is possible, what are the things I should keep in mind and have to do? My knowledge about this all is pretty limited so I would need a detailed explanation if possible.

I thank you all very much for taking the time to read this thread and I hope someone here can help me out. Like I said, I am running a large community and I would like a little downtime as possible and the smallest amount of errors hehe.

Thanks again and take care,

Bozza

Since my topic was moved to this section, I felt like a little bump was needed in order to get some attention haha. I normally don't like doing bumps but I could really use the expertise you guys have and I hope you are willing to help me with my situation.

Hey guys,

It's been a while since I started this thread but until now, no replies so far and I am still struggling with the problem.
Could anyone please take some time to help me out?
Thank you kindly in advance.

Ciao,

Bozza

P.S. I am using vBSEO as well.

did you try a emulation running a server on a desktop
then install both vb and joomla onto the localhost

before doing the real deal..

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I recomend trying a emulation of vb and joomla in same dir, both fresh installs
i got both installed on my computer, runs fine but they are in seperate folders.
so that wont help you.

To setup a "easy" server for testing purposes
i recommend Xampp

get the version for your system, install, and after that open control panel and
click start, alternatly use the lancher. and your server is running

just copy joomla and vb into the folder named :/Xampp/Htdocs/
thats your website "root" folder, and then as links in your browser use
http://localhost/

well http is not nessesary, but it was en exsample.

takes 5 min to install Xampp, max.
5 mins for vb
5 mins for joomla..
proberly faster if just hitting the next botton like me :p

so that would make you to be able to test it within 15-20mins
instead waiting several days for someone else to try out ;)