Moving to forum root

[Brian Cummiskey]

see post #2 in this thread

[Kolbi]

The explizit custom 301 redirect isn´t mentioned?

[Ceri May]

The explizit custom 301 redirect isn´t mentioned?

The 301 is quoted in post #2 as Brian stated, I will Quote it here for your convenience

3. Put a .htaccess file with the following content in the /forums/ directory :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Kolbi]

You are right But I wanted to know the way of adding it to the vbseocp.php under Custom 301 redirects. I don´t want to do this with .htaccess....

[Brian Cummiskey]

While it can be done in the vbseocp area, using htaccess is the better method and should be used. Using the redirect cp adds 4 steps.
-htaccess
-hits vbseo.php
- loads redirects and process
- does redirects
-starts all over, this time loading the correct page

VS

-htaccess
-starts all over, this time loading the correct page.

[Kolbi]

Okay, thank you

Then I´ll use the .htaccess method

[ErikTheRed]

Thanks a ton, Shadab - your instructions worked like a charm for me. All I had to do was change my forum home url in settings and upload the .htaccess file to my old forums installation directory, and perfect!