moving content from Forums folder to root folder

[Kirk Y]

I miss .htaccess in general... I think I'm going to go pester my host till he concedes.

[Aunt Clara]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

If your goal is to make the forums accessible by a shorter URL only, then maybe better to leave the current directory structure and use a .htaccess rewrite rule to forward to the forum if the main url is accessed.

Would give you more flexibility to the future.

That's my point exactly. My whole site is sitting on the forum folder now. My old site was html based, as it grew way too big for maintenance (over 300 pages, which I am still moving) I hacked vB to pieces and came up with a similar site to what I had but based on the vB in the forum folder (check it at DominicanCooking.com). I want a lot of the forums to read dominicancooking.com/forumsoandso as opposed to dominicancooking.com/forums/forumsoandso.

Now about that htaccess rewrite, I've only done basic 301 redirecting, how do I go about "masking" the /forums/ part of the url?

BTW Freesteyelz, your site is sickeningly cool!

[Kirk Y]

I believe there's a tutorial here but if not, I'm sure you can find one on Google. Just search for mod_rewrite.

[Freesteyelz]

I see that you've (Aunt Clara) have already visited vBSEO. They'll be able to help you as they did for me.

Thanks for the compliment. I think for the 3.6 project I'm going for a blog look. I don't know if it'll fly for a gaming site but we'll see.