Having forum in /forum/ dir

**zelnik** · 03-19-2009 04:58 AM

Hi there.

I put my vB site in a directory as at some stage I want to build a site around it and didn't want everything in the root.

However, I have just read on another site that some search engines will refuse to crawl my site since my index.php just redirects to the /forum/index.php

Can anyone please help?

Site: My Spain - British Expat In Spain Forum (if it's down keep trying as host changeover is happening today hopefully)

The source for index.php is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.7.4" />
<meta name="keywords" content="british,expat,spain,espana,resource,expat riate,residencia,pension,healthcare,retire,retired ,work,news,euro,nie,permit,resident,forum,communit y" />
<meta name="description" content="The British Expat discussion forum for living in Spain" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Myspain.es - The British Expat community for Spain</title>
</head>
<?
Header("Location:http://www.myspain.es/forum/index.php" );
?>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Thanks!

**briansol** · 03-19-2009 03:26 PM

instead of setting a header like that, you should move your redirect rule into htaccess with a 301.

**zelnik** · 03-19-2009 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by briansol

instead of setting a header like that, you should move your redirect rule into htaccess with a 301.

Thanks for the reply Brian much appreciated.

I'll go have a Google and see how it's done! thanks once again.

**zelnik** · 03-19-2009 04:24 PM

Hi Brian,

Would appreciate some advice after Googling I've come up with this.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myspain.es$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myspain.es/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

Firstly have I got this right (it's /forum/index.php) and secondly is this the best route to take for SEO?

**mmoore5553** · 03-20-2009 10:36 AM

i would love to know this also.

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 03-20-2009 10:41 AM

If you donot use your root homepage effectively then the best is to use your forum index as start page. In order to do that you can add the following .htaccess to your root

Code:

RewriteEngine On

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

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