Move forum

[Ziki]

Hello,

I would like to know if it is SEO safe to move my forum from www.mysite.com/forums to www.mysite.com,to the server root.Will vBSEO redirect my old URLs?If no,is there a safe way to do this?Thank you.

Regards

[Michael Biddle]

Well if you have the same rewrite structure, you can have a .htaccess file in your forums folder to rewrite all all of the URLs.

[Ziki]

How would I edit the htaccess?I have no knowledge of rewrites.

[Michael Biddle]

Please see here: [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

You would place this in your .htaccess that is located in your forum directory:

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

[Ziki]

But I want to move the contents of the forums directory to site root,but leaving permanent redirects from the old pages to the new ones.So www.mysite.com/forums/index.php would redirect to www.mysite.com/index.php

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You should put this .htaccess in forums/ folder then:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Ziki]

So the content will be redirected with this code?And what about search engines?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

SE indexes will be updated with time as well.