Moving forums to different foler, what need to be change?

[maternity.com]

Hi guys

I am going to move our forums from Maternity.com Forums. Your Online Community for Parents and Expecting Parents. to the public_html folder to be access in Maternity.com Forums. Your Online Community for Parents and Expecting Parents. what do I have to do with VBseo or nothing?

[Keith Cohen]

If you have any .htaccess rules that have the /forums hardcoded in front of them, change it to /

Make sure you update your forum URL in the vBulletin AdminCP options.

I think that's it....

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello Tim,

vBSEO should work fine right after transfer, but you may want to setup a redirection from old URLs to corresponding new URLs by adding this in .htaccess right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://www.maternity.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[Keith Cohen]

Ah yes, that too.

[maternity.com]

If you have any .htaccess rules that have the /forums hardcoded in front of them, change it to /

Make sure you update your forum URL in the vBulletin AdminCP options.

I think that's it....

SO far, its awesome, all I had to do is put the htaccess file to the public_html folder, however; I do want to have a custom 404 and wants if there is no page, forward user there. What code should I be adding into the .htacess file?

[maternity.com]

Hello Tim,

vBSEO should work fine right after transfer, but you may want to setup a redirection from old URLs to corresponding new URLs by adding this in .htaccess right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://www.maternity.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I havent done this yet, but I am planing to leave the /forums folder exist, just in case people has old links and in case we may need to roll back for any reason. What do you think?

[Keith Cohen]

You should definately do the redirect that Oleg suggested. You don't want the same content showing up in two locations.

[maternity.com]

Hello Tim,

vBSEO should work fine right after transfer, but you may want to setup a redirection from old URLs to corresponding new URLs by adding this in .htaccess right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://www.maternity.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Ok I did this but link dotn forward, test here, this one is at /forums and it suppose to forward to the homepage one
Collection of funny and cute baby movies HERE. - Maternity.com Forums. Your Online Community for Parents and Expecting Parents.

[Keith Cohen]

Did you add that new rule to the top of .htaccess, right after RewriteEngine On, and before any other vBSEO rules?

[maternity.com]

Did you add that new rule to the top of .htaccess, right after RewriteEngine On, and before any other vBSEO rules?

Yes, I did and nothing happened. Here is my .htaccess code

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://www.maternity.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You should remove (or better rename ) your forums/ folder now.

[maternity.com]

You should remove (or better rename ) your forums/ folder now.

Yes than you, it does works now. So what do i need to do to make it forward to a custom page if 404 error? I try to add ErrorDocument 404 /erroepage.php in the htaccess file but it doesnt work. And how do you go back to change the setting of vbseo?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You should set ""File Not Found" requests handling?" option to "Include custom script" in vbseocp and specify the filename to include for custom 404 handler.

[maternity.com]

You should set ""File Not Found" requests handling?" option to "Include custom script" in vbseocp and specify the filename to include for custom 404 handler.

I think its something I did, i dont see any "vbseocp" in vb admin area, i only see the cpanel for Vbseo_sitemap generator. Can u access it directly from a file or something?

[Keith Cohen]

Yes, vBSEO doesn't (yet) integrate into the AdminCP. Just browse directly to vbseocp.php.