moving a forum

[manuelsechi]

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

[briansol]

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

[manuelsechi]

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...?

[briansol]

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

[manuelsechi]

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
regards
Manuel

[Shadab]

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

[manuelsechi]

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

[Shadab]

is there a way to distinguish wordpress urls from vbulletin ones?

Set up a custom permalink structure for your wordpress URLs, like:

/article/%postname%/

Then exclude that pseudo-directory from being processed by vbseo by editing this line in .htaccess :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/

to this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images|article)/

[manuelsechi]

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?

[Shadab]

Looks like it is still is being processed by vBSEO.

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

[manuelsechi]

here it is:

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

[ozidoggy]

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