/forum to forum.

[Ross]

Hi,

I am currently getting a site ready for launch and I have decided to have the forum at forum.mysite.com instead of mysite.com/forum. The only problem I am having, is that when I set the subdomain up via CPanel, it makes the domain accessible via forum.mysite.com and mysite.com/forum. How would I go about redirecting anyone who goes to mysite.com/forum to forum.mysite.com?

Cheers,

Ross

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You should setup 301 redirect as described in 301 Redirecting Domains
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[Ross]

Thanks for that.

So just to confirm, in my forum file I should put:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

and in the root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Cheers,

Ross

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Domain names in rewrite condition and rewrite rule must be the same.
For the forum:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^forum\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

For domain root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]