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    moving a forum

    hello all

    I have a well indexed forum at ♫ ♪ Il Forum sulla Musica Italiana | SonicBands | Vendita online di biglietti per concerti, eventi, musei, mostre. this site started in 2002 as a forum, and in 2005 I tryed vbseo with great results

    now I'm thinking to "transform" this site in a web magazine, maybe using joomla as cms with no registered users and to move my forum in a third domain like forum.sonicbands.it but I have some dubt:

    do you think I can lose traffic when I will change the address?
    Is joomla the best way to do that or there is any serious alternative?
    any other suggestion?

    thank you

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    I would leave the forum where it is. Add the new content around it.

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    Thanks Briansol, I think this it the best thing to do, but you know vB is a great forum, but not the same as CMS...
    what you suggest to use to publish some article without loose traffic? mods, plugins, integration with other cms...?

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    My point is that you can still have a CMS and all the jazz WITHOUT moving the forum.

    change index.php to forums.php
    then set up a CRR for forums\.php => forums/ so it 'appears' in a directory.

    you can then install your cms in root too

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    hi Briansol
    thanx for your answers and excuse me if I'm reply now but I was some days out of office.

    can you please explain to me what's a CRR? is it a modification in .htaccess? is there any way to not install the cms (i was thinking wordpress) in the root?

    thank you
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    can you please explain to me what's a CRR? is it a modification in .htaccess?
    CRR = Custom Rewrite Rule.

    It's a vBSEO feature; not a .htaccess modification.
    You can set up your CRRs via the vBSEO CP.

    See: vBSEO CP:Custom Rewrite Rules - VBSEO Wiki

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    hi it's me again

    I made a CRR (thanks Shadab) and I installed wordpress, but when I call some url like www.mysite.it/2009/06/hello-world, this url is "captured" by the vbseo rewrite rules in .htaccess (or perhaps some CRR???)
    is there a way to distinguish wordpress urls from vbulletin ones?

    thanks very much

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    is there a way to distinguish wordpress urls from vbulletin ones?
    Set up a custom permalink structure for your wordpress URLs, like:
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    /article/%postname%/
    Then exclude that pseudo-directory from being processed by vbseo by editing this line in .htaccess :
    Code:
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
    to this:
    Code:
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images|article)/

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    I'm getting a 404 error
    I'm doing some test here:
    Page Not Found - LinuxForum - Il Forum Italiano su Linux & Open Source

    maybe because I catch the 404 error with vbulletin and not using apache?

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    Looks like it is still is being processed by vBSEO.

    What's the full content of your .htaccess file in root ?

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    here it is:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine On^M
    ^M
    # Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be^M
    # enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)^M
    # Please note: when enabled, you must include the path^M
    # to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)^M
    #RewriteBase /^M
    ^M
    RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]^M
    ^M
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)^M
    RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]^M
    ^M
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f^M
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d^M
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images|articoli)/^M
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]^M
    ^M
    ^M
    
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    
    # END WordPress

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    Anyone know if I can put Vivvo in the root with vB, and not cause any files conflicts, etc?

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