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    Help moving from root folder to forum folder.

    I currently own a vBSEO license. I'd like to move my forum from the root directory like this:
    http://www.site.com
    to something like this:
    http://www.site.com/forum/

    Without losing the links in search engines. I understand it takes time to update but I would like to have it start moving. I have no idea how to go about this. I'd also like to mention that vBSEO is not currently installed on the forum. It has some rules in place which were custom which I did in vb3.0.x.

    Here's the site in question:
    http://www.livecollege.com

    Let me know how to go about this. I'll pay anyone who wants to do this job for me rather than me just attempting to do it.

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    Anyone able to help me out with this?

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    Hello,

    if you want to redirect ALL urls from the root to forum/ folder, the following should work for you (in the root .htaccess file):
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^([/]+)$ forum/$1 [L,R=301]
    However, there may be some URLs that you don't want to redirect - you can exclude them using this directive before "RewriteRule":
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php
    (to exclude index.php from redirecting)
    Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
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    Will this help reindex the links in the search engines?

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    Yes, using the redirection with code 301 (permanent redirect) is a safe (and correct) way to move content according to google.
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