Alternative domain for just one forum

[abdicar]

Hi there,

I have a large forum system and i need to move one domain name that it is not the normal.

The thing is this. We have the adult forum, but i want to setup the second domain name as alias of the main, and when the people access to the www.2.com get access to the porn forum, but when they enter to www.1.com they will see ONLY the other forums.

Any idea?

[Brian Cummiskey]

This is not possible with vbseo. It is tied to one domain.

[abdicar]

Yes, it is for one domain, just with a domain alias. Thing it should be easy.

We have www.forum.com, and we have adult forum on www.forum.com/adult, we only need a rule to forward all www.forum.com/adult to forumadult.com: The Leading Adult Shopping Site on the Net that it is an alias of the main. If we need buy another license that it is not a problem. We just need the help. We got this in the past in phpbb with few seo tools, but we migrate one month ago and we need figure it out.

[Brian Cummiskey]

vbseo "base" href's all links on the site with the installed domain.

Your only option would be to buy a new license for vb and make that forum a link to the new site. You can't install vbseo on this domain. vBSEO is not allowed on sites whose main theme is adult in nature, per our EULA. vBSEO™ - End User License Agreement (EULA)

[abdicar]

well just thing it is another section. we can't split our forum users, we have more than 50k.

[Brian Cummiskey]

I'm sorry, but we do not have a solution for this.

[tigurius]

Wouldn't he just be able to set up some sort of htaccess redirect?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

there is no built-in feature in vBSEO to have custom URLs for a specific subforum, but you can try this:
1. Create a new plugin in vB admincp for "global_complete" hook, with "execution order" set to "30":

$output = str_replace('http://www.forum.com/adult', 'http://www.forumadult.com', $output);

2. And in your .htaccess file add this right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} forumadult\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) vbseo.php?vbseourl=adult$1 [L]

[abdicar]

Could you try to help us in the ticket system? I have few confidential information that i cant post in the forums.

[abdicar]

Hello,

there is no built-in feature in vBSEO to have custom URLs for a specific subforum, but you can try this:
1. Create a new plugin in vB admincp for "global_complete" hook, with "execution order" set to "30":


2. And in your .htaccess file add this right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

The plugin works. It replace the URL fine in the forum system, but the Rewrite rules is not working.

I have this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainnameforforum\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) vbseo.php?vbseourl=the-forum-name$1 [L]

But when I try to access it i just got that the forum link it is invalid.

At this point what i need is:

If the users enter to domainnameforforum.com they should see the forum content of orginalforum/the-forum-name, because any other forum should be visible only using the other address.

Thank you, I think we can get it working with a few modification.

[abdicar]

I add this to the plugin to get the login without issues:


if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "www.domainnameforforum.com" && $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/login.php" ){

$output = str_replace('http://www.main.com', 'http://www.domainnameforforum.com', $output);

[abdicar]

ok, i fix the index redirection adding a plug in with this:

if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "www.domainnameforforum.com" && $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/index.php" ){
ob_start();
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header ("Location: http://www.domainnameforforum.com/forum-name/");
ob_end_clean();
exit;

}

To global_start.

Now; I just need the SEO friendly URL to redir all the request to the old URLs to the newones. Could someone help me out?

[Juan Muriente]

Someone will be replying to your support ticket shortly.

Keep in mind that we do not support unofficial modifications like this one, however, since it's an .htaccess redirect, I've asked Oleg to help you set it up. Note that we cannot commit to support this modification if further issues arise.

[abdicar]

ok thank you.