How to setup a 301 redirect correctly

[tommyxv]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

put this code in your root .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^vbforums.* http://www.mysite.com/forums [NC,L,R]

Regards,

Ok, it is sort of working now.

My old links look like this:
http://www.mysite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=19549

The redirect urls look like this and doesn't show the correct page:
http://www.mysite.com/forums/?t=19549


Here is a little twist too. My forums are setup on a sub-domain: http://forums.mysite.com which points to http://www.mysite.com/forums

It will work either way but I would like to have the redirect urls look like my current forum urls:
http://forums.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=19549

My htacces currently looks like this

Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^vbforums.* http://www.mysite.com/forums [NC,L,R]

I also tried this to get the urls on the sub-domain but it still cuts off the "showthread.php" part

Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^vbforums.* http://forums.mysite.com [NC,L,R]

And I did remember to replace "mysite" with my info. LOL

Thanks in advance Boofo & SaN-DeeP.