Best practices when changing forum category titles

[serphog]

Some of my forums are not as keyword friendly and actually a bit confusing for my readers. I wanted to change the names of a few forums, all of which have a ton of posts.

Outside of sending an updated sitemap, what are the best practices when doing something along these lines since a ton of URL's will change.

Thanks in advance.

[Brian Cummiskey]

Obviously the best thing to do is to not move anything.
But if you must move, you should set up a custom redirect in your control panel

'^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1/'

[serphog]

Obviously the best thing to do is to not move anything.
But if you must move, you should set up a custom redirect in your control panel

'^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1/'

For some reason, it adds a '/' at the end, so the resulting URL is:
http://www.mysite.com/forum/new-category//

[Brian Cummiskey]

yes, just use

'^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1'

in that case.

[serphog]

Thanks Brian. That did the trick.