Help moving forum to domain root

[treasureman]

I have my forum installed in /forums

I have decided to move it to the root of my domain, mainly for simplicity, the higher Google PR that the domain root has, and the fact that I don't think I ever want any type of CMS at my domain root.

Does VBSeo need any special changes when I move it from /forums to / ?
(it will be installed on the same domain name as it is now)

I am thinking I will copy the files from /forums to root and change the settings of in the VB Admin CP. Then delete the old files. Then put a redirect from /forums to root.

Anything else you can think of I need to do?

[Michael]

That should all work fine, as long as you make the appropriate adjustments to your .htaccess file. For example if you have already got some definitions within your old root .htaccess file you wont want to simply overwrite it. Apart from that there really shouldnt be an issue, but best to backup beforehand.

[treasureman]

Okay I moved my forums to my root, it seems to work fine.

Could you help me with a re-write for this? So some posts refererenced within other posts in my forum will still work, and also posts and forums that are index within search engines will work.

I moved my forums from mydomain.com/forums to mydomain.com

I am new to the rewrite stuff, having just started using VBSeo.

[Michael]

You could do a simple rewrite for all content referencing a URL with ./forums/$ ($ being whatever variable) to be rewriten to just ./$, just as long as this doesnt conflict with any other functioning scripts or pages you have in your root.

[treasureman]

Used below, works great:

RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ /$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks to Keith Cohen of VBSEO!