Changes to forum structure

[monkeycheeky]

I'm looking at purchasing VBSEO for our existing forum and would like a few queries answerig.

I have the forum located in the root ie. /index.php , showthread.php and want to shift this onto either a subdomain - forum.mysite.com or mysite.com/forum

Would this be possible and would their be 301 redirects in place to move the existing urls to pick up the new vbseo urls?

In the forum root would be our news system, which would have it's own rewritten urls. I would ensure that there is no conflict on the urls.

So, the new structure would be:

forum.mysite.com/forum-name/thread-title
www.mysite.com/cms-cat/
www.mysite.com/news-title

Would this be possible?

[Joe Ward]

The files from forum.mysite.com and www.mysite.com will be serving from the same folder or account? If so, you'll probably need to include your forumID in your vBulletin CRUs.

[monkeycheeky]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Ideally, I'd like move the vBulletin files off the root into their own subdomain.

The news system uses PHP files too, so there would be conflicts.

Would it be possible then to redirect the following:

mysite.com/showthread.php?t=1 to forum.mysite.com/f1/thread1

[Joe Ward]

Yes - those redirections can easily be done with .htaccess 301s.