600 failed urls - most related to change of vb install

Hi everyone, I've recently moved my vbulletin install from root to the /forums directory. I have about 5600 posts on my vbulletin forum, and for one reason or another, of my 5600 urls, only about 4800 are submitted succesfully. I'm still getting about 600 more URLs that google is getting 404's for.

Scanning the list, the vast majority of these urls are due to the lack of the /forum part in the address. I'm thinking that these aren't duplicates, since 4800+600 = roughly the 5600 posts in the website. I have uploaded a csv file containing the URLs that are getting 404'd. Was hoping someone could take a look and tell me what I've done wrong.

404 List: http://www.roicommunity.com/uploaded/notfound.csv

Oh and one last thing - not sure if this would be related or not but I'm having sporadic reports of errors during registration. I get about 20 new signups every day, and every few days I get an email from a user that states that they are not able to register. That when they submit the registration information, the page reloads and the passwords are blank. Again this is only a sporadic event so I'm wondering if somehow there is a backdoor to my registration page, perhaps linking to a page that doesn't exist. Perhaps this is all related?

Anyway, thanks for any suggestions.

ROIC :: Phil Town & Rule #1, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham Value Investment Community

Hello Justin,

404 pages report is not related to sitemap, it is a general site stats reporting tool and it displays old indexed URLs that you had, but currently they point to a "not found" location.
You can try redirecting all "not found" requests to a forum/ folder by createing .htaccess in domain root:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !forum/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://www.roicommunity.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]

Will these URLs eventually go away on their own? or are there still links in my current site pointing to these 404 links?

Could this be related somehow, to the users who aren't able to register?

This is my current .htaccess:

PHP Code:

RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule> 


What should the .htaccess be after adding the code you suggest?

Your 404 pages should be cleaned from google index after some time automatically if you don't link to them anymore (you can try some broken links checker to find this out).

Your .htaccess already handles all not-found requests, as I see.