moving my forum to sub directory

[HyperActiv]

Hello,

i want to move the whole forum to sub directory /forum
now its on the main directory and i want to move it to /forum/ folder.

how can i do that without arming and ruin the data and files?

[snakes1100]

1. Create a new directory in ftp.
2. Move all related vb files & folders to newly created folder.
3. Change URL path in the admincp -- vbulletin options --> url settings
4. Change any paths related to file storage such as attachments/avatars/customprofilepics etc.

[HyperActiv]

alright thank you very much i'll try it.

if anyone have more ideas please writh it before im doing it.

[AzH]

No more ideas are needed. It's pretty simple and the guy above summed it up well.

[vithorius]

THIS might be one of the MOST VALUABLE Question/Answer on this forum...!!! Thank you HyperActiv for asking the question, and thank you snakes1100 and AzH for your prompt answers!!!

I myself will use it in the near future, as I too have my forums on my server's root, but I guess that we could improve this matter.

Originally Posted by AzH

No more ideas are needed. It's pretty simple and the guy above summed it up well.

How about:

- how to tell other sites that have links to our boards?
- What will happen with RSS feeds?
- What could affect the members?
- Will google loose all that was in its cache? (Will it have to rebuild its index?)
- How about someone who already has done something like this post a checklist so it will be fail-safe to do this job on our boards?

(I believe that this last one would be the most important of all!)


Once again, thank you so very much! :up: :up:

[Floris]

Google and SE will recrawl and auto index, don't worry about it. They're not dumb

[HyperActiv]

Originally Posted by vithorius

THIS might be one of the MOST VALUABLE Question/Answer on this forum...!!! Thank you HyperActiv for asking the question, and thank you snakes1100 and AzH for your prompt answers!!!

I myself will use it in the near future, as I too have my forums on my server's root, but I guess that we could improve this matter.



How about:

- how to tell other sites that have links to our boards?
- What will happen with RSS feeds?
- What could affect the members?
- Will google loose all that was in its cache? (Will it have to rebuild its index?)
- How about someone who already has done something like this post a checklist so it will be fail-safe to do this job on our boards?

(I believe that this last one would be the most important of all!)


Once again, thank you so very much! :up: :up:

No problem mate!!!

by the way, i did what snakes1100 tell me to do and it worked! thanks snakes1100!
it was easy and simple then i thought it would be!
thanks again!