Forum files in web root but rewritten to /forum/?

[Byggahus]

I'm trying to have my vB installation in the web root / but make it look like it's located in a /forum/ directory.

/showforum.php?f=xxx is for example rewritten to /forums/my-forum/
/members.php becomes /forum/members/ and so on. This works quite well, with one exception, typing /forum/ seems to make an 301 redirect to /, instead of just showing the forum home-page. I want it to stay at /forum/ in the location field, not redirecting me to /.

Does anybody understand my problem?

If I get this to work, I will be able to have my forum at /forum/, the blog at /blogs/, the groups at /groups/, memberlist at /memberlist/ and so on.

I hope someone of you has some input to my issue.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Please try to define this custom rewrite rule in vBSEO CP:

'^index\.php$' => 'forums/'

[Byggahus]

Thanks Oleg!

It works great!

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Great, you are welcome!

[mljask]

Byggahus: sorry to stole your theme

Oleg: what about ibproarcade is there any chance to setup CRR`s like this www.domain.com/games/1111.html but files are under www.domain.com/forum/games/?