something strange going on

hi, i recently changed my domain to my forum, i have redirected the old domain to my new one using .htaccess in an addon domain folder
eg: i added the old domain to addon domain then redirected.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mynewforum.com/$1 [L,R=301]

now hears where it gets strange, my old domain is redirecting perfect to my new domain.
but, when i access threads that i have found on google.com that has my old domain, i click on that link on google and it redirects to the thread not my new domain forum home.
eg: forum on google - http://www.myoldforum.com/i-am-new
i click it and it redirects to - http://www.mynewforum.com/i-am-new
shouldnt it redirect strait to my forum home eg: http://www.mynewforum.com/ ????

the other strange thing is im getting heaps of emails (link Back) to my new domain from my old. i have no idea whats going on here.
i deleted my old site map domain and created a new site map using my new domain, a day later my new domain has changed back to my old domain in my google site map page, now whats with that please? how can a domain change from new back to old when old was deleted in full.

its like google hasnt even realized my domains even changed, days later my new domain hasnt even changed on whois lol. na ive had domain changes before no problems but this is just freaky.
please let me know what i have to do just to redirect my old domain to my new new domain please.
i would like the redirect to www.mynewdomain.com
thanks.
o/and i made a totally new account for my old domain, its no longer an addon domain.
just has a public_html/ for its self.
so far i have set the .htaccess to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.teen-forum\.com

but my old threads are still redirecting to my new threads,
i want old threads redirected to just my domain, and chance of that please????
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.teen-forum.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by the nwo

please let me know what i have to do just to redirect my old domain to my new new domain please.
i would like the redirect to www.mynewdomain.com
thanks.
o/and i made a totally new account for my old domain, its no longer an addon domain.
just has a public_html/ for its self.
so far i have set the .htaccess to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.teen-forum\.com

but my old threads are still redirecting to my new threads,
i want old threads redirected to just my domain, and chance of that please????
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.teen-forum.com/$1 [R=301,L]

hello?? any advice or idea's please?

$1 at the end takes anything after the domain name and passes it on to the url.

Be sure you updated
a) your vbseo license (likely done already)
b) your vboptions Site Url setting to reflect the new domain
c) the htaccess to direct to the new domain

As for linkbacks, be sure your added your own new domain into the linkback blacklist aread in vbseocp.php

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

$1 at the end takes anything after the domain name and passes it on to the url.

i wondered what you were talking about, but i worked it out thanks, basically you are saying remove the $1 from the .htaccess code and that should work what i wanted.

thanks, if thats what you meant it worked

Yes, if you don't want to pass the forum/thread 'string' you can remove the $1 variable to just pass it to the root newdomain.com