Moving forum to subdomain

[lem]

Hello!

On christianwomenonline.net, we've recently decided that Wordpress would be a better fit for a CMS. We need to be able to add pages easily and Wordpress is so much more flexible.

Problem is, we want to move the forum to a subdomain (forum.christianwomenonline.net). However, since I currently have vBulletin sitting in the root directory, I have no idea how to begin doing 301 redirects or a rewrite to the new subdomain since Wordpress will be going in the root directory now.

Any ideas or thoughts on that?

Thanks!

[Brian Cummiskey]

your site has a serious virus on it.... you should look into fixing this asap. my virus scanner went nuts


that said, i would suggest against using a subdomain. use a folder site.com/forum instead. There is no good way to redirect as a catch-all when you intend to put something there (wordpress).

Ideally, you will leave the forum in place, and install wordpress into /articles/ or something else so that all your forum urls don't change.

[lem]

Did your virus scanner say what or where the virus is? I don't know how to begin checking for virus's on a website.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello Andy,

I've enabled McAfee Site Advisor on my web browser an can't reproduce the issue Brian mentioned, neither with my Avira Premium antivirus software. Maybe it can be a false positive, maybe not.

You can follow these steps if you suspect you have malware on your server:

* Download a fresh copy of your vBulletin version from members area and reupload all vB archives, especially *.js files.
* Change all your passwords and use a different password for each site/forum you visit.
* Follow tips suggested in this article:

Easy Security Tips for vBSEO customers

* Always keep updated your vBSEO and vBulletin instances.

Coming back to your question, I would suggest you the same thing Brian advised. Basically because will be very hard trying to redirect all your forum content to your new subdomain. You're not using ids on forum URLs, and trying to put a redirect like this:

RewriteRule (.*) http://subdomain.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Will affects also WordPress urls once you have it installed.

[Brian Cummiskey]

It looks like they hacked your copyright

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[lem]

Ah, thanks guys! I figured it must have been a plugin or something I was using that anti-virus didn't like. I appreciate the help!

When I make the move to be primarily Wordpress, I'm ditching that navigation bar on vBulletin and going back to stock. Then I'll add a cool dropdown menu for the forum and Wordpress.

Using vBulletin for pages is just so limiting!