Rewrite lnx to www

Hello,
I have just installed Vbulletin on linux server, because I know that it can not run on windows server. My forum is lnx.scaricone.it/forums .
What I need is to rewrite the prefix lnx in www. So all the pages have to be changed from lnx.scaricone.it/forums/.... to www.scaricone.it/forums/....

Is it feasible with Vbseo?
Please help me!!!!!

Yes, you will just need to add one simple htaccess redirect to forward all traffic from the old domain to the new.

Once you purchase vBSEO, please open a support ticket and a member of the vBSEO Total Support Team will help you with the redirect.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Yes, you will just need to add one simple htaccess redirect to forward all traffic from the old domain to the new.

Once you purchase vBSEO, please open a support ticket and a member of the vBSEO Total Support Team will help you with the redirect.

Hi Joe, thanks for your reply!!!
I want to be sure 100% before the purchase of the product so I explain again my request. I have a site scaricone.it that cannot be moved on linux server; only the forum of the site is on linux server because I know that vbulletin has to run on linux server.
What I need is that all the pages of the forum will be rewrited with the title of the topic but the prefix has to be www and not lnx.

I want to do an example:

home of the forum is ==> lnx.scaricone.it/forums
home of the forum has to be rewrited in ==> www.scaricone.it/forums

If I open a topic with title "Beautiful game" in the forum "game", the page has to be rewrited as:
www.scaricone.it/forums/game/beautiful_game.html

Is it feasible?

Moreover..... Google today in my opinion doesn't consider the page lnx.scaricone.it/forums like a page of the site scaricone.it! Rewriting the prefix lnx in www, the page www.scaricone.it/forums will be considered as a page of the site scaricone?

Thank you very much for your support!!!!!!!!

vbulletin (and vbseo) both will run on a windows server. Not sure where you got that from.

Originally Posted by briansol

vbulletin (and vbseo) both will run on a windows server. Not sure where you got that from.

Dear Briansol,
thanks for uoour answer!
My hosting provider is Aruba.it
Please see the features of the windows server
Servizio Hosting - Aruba.it

as you can see htaccess and Gdlib are not available on this server.

So..... is it right what I wrote?

Thanks

windows servers require the Helicon ISAPI filter installed.
ISAPI_Rewrite 3 - Apache .htaccess mod_rewrite compatible module for IIS

This will give IIS ".htaccess"-like compatibility.

That server doesn't appear to mention it, but you may be able to ask them to install it for you.

Either way, linux is the better choice in my opinion for a web server anyway.


To your question of
"www.scaricone.it/forums/game/beautiful_game.html"

Yes, it can be re-written like that, but you also need to include the topic ID, as there's a VERY good chance you will have more than one topic with the same title at some point. So,

www.scaricone.it/forums/game/123456-beautiful_game.html
for example.

Originally Posted by briansol

windows servers require the Helicon ISAPI filter installed.
ISAPI_Rewrite 3 - Apache .htaccess mod_rewrite compatible module for IIS

This will give IIS ".htaccess"-like compatibility.

That server doesn't appear to mention it, but you may be able to ask them to install it for you.

Either way, linux is the better choice in my opinion for a web server anyway.


To your question of
"www.scaricone.it/forums/game/beautiful_game.html"

Yes, it can be re-written like that, but you also need to include the topic ID, as there's a VERY good chance you will have more than one topic with the same title at some point. So,

www.scaricone.it/forums/game/123456-beautiful_game.html
for example.

Briansol you are great!!!
Thank you very much!
The reason of all this requests is that I think that Google doesn't consider the forum (with lnx prefix) like a scaricone.it page. Using Vbseo to rewrite the prefix, do you think that Google will see the pages of the forum like pages of the site?

Thanks

If you redirect it, Google will definitely associated all of the pages with scaricone.it.

Did you ask your host if they support the Helicon ISAPI filter?

If not, I recommend that you transfer to a new server so that you can max out your SEO.

Let us know if you have any more questions.