Moved forum to subdomain - Possible to redirect with vanilla routes?

shozen1

• I have moved my forum from domain.com to forum.domain.com

• The problem is....the main website (now a store) is located at domain.com - so I do not want that redirected to forum.domain.com

• Is it possible to redirect the pages using vanilla routes? or is that impossible now the site is on a subdomain?

• Would it be necessary to forget about the subdomain idea and instead put the forum in a subfolder where it might be easier to redirect?

thank you

x00

Vanilla route can only redirect from it relative location. It has no control over another location.

If you have moved, then you would have to differentiate urls between, what is currently there and vanilla type urls, which is tricky, you better brush up on your regular expressions. Unless of course the forum was located at /forum or similar.

If you the forum is located on the web root, it would have made more sense to permanently redirect, before adding the store, it is gradual, until the search engines took hold. Only then adding the store to that location.

shozen1

@x00 thanks for your prompt reply as always.

Looks like subfolder it is then. I have moved it all into domain.com/forum hoping that should be easier to redirect?

thank you

shozen1

Is there an easy way to redirect each and every page so it goes up a folder to its new location in the /forum subfolder? I want the address to actually show the new subfolder /forum right now it isnt and just showing the root. Using the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subfolder/$1 [L]

Any ideas? thank you

shozen1

Solution for permanent 301 redirect from root to subfolder:

In .htaccess add the following

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subfolder/
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/subfolder/$1 [L,R=301]

Change domain.com to your domain and subfolder to your subfolder. This will redirect all pages from root to the new /subfolder/