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tommyxv · #1 05-05-2006, 09:52 AM

Please chime in of you can help. I changed my directory structure the other day. My forums use to be located at www.mysite.com/vbforums

I move it to www.mysite.com/forums

How and where do I setup a redirect for all the old links?

Thanks,

Boofo · #2 05-05-2006, 09:58 AM

Make this your htaccess file in the vbforums root directory.

Quote:

Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#
RewriteRule index.html www.mysite.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L,NC]
#

tommyxv · #3 05-05-2006, 11:36 PM

I tried it but it did not work.

SaN-DeeP · #4 05-06-2006, 01:42 AM

put this code in your root .htaccess file

Code:

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

Regards,

Boofo · #5 05-06-2006, 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

put this code in your root .htaccess file

Code:

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

Regards,

Ahhh, the man who taught me about this stuff. How come the code I posted didn't work? It was what you gave me for mine and it works for me.

tommyxv · #6 05-06-2006, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

put this code in your root .htaccess file

Code:

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

Code:

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

Code:

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.

SaN-DeeP · #7 05-08-2006, 10:17 PM

is your problem fixed ?

tommyxv · #8 05-09-2006, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

is your problem fixed ?

No

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

treasureman · #9 05-09-2006, 12:20 PM

Try this:

RewriteRule ^vbforums/(.*)$ forums/$1 [L,R=301]

tommyxv · #10 05-11-2006, 03:13 AM

Yeap that did. Thanks everyone. :banana:

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