Url Redirect Login Problem

iLLerich

Hi,
i have a site with wordpress on it mysite.com now i created a subpage called forum.mysite.com where i installed vanilla forums. but i want a different url for this forum lets say mysiteforum.com. but if i do that and use mysiteforum.com to log in it just dose nothing. the login just dosnt work. but if i go to forum.mysite.com it works just fine.

Im using Vanilla 2

i tryed some stuff but i just cant get to the core of the problem.

THX 4 your Help

vrijvlinder

This might be an htaccess thing :

The HTTP_HOST only matches against a hostname, not the path. The path needs to be part of the RewriteRule. Assuming that the .htaccess file that you are editing resides in the forum.mysite.com root (as in the equivalent of: forum.mysite.com/.htaccess), it should look like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forum\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^redirect/(.+)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [L,NC,R]

You won't need the QSA in the rule brackets because the query string will get appended anyways (unless you have a ? in the target, e.g. http://mysite.com/$1?p=1).

This will redirect the browser from forum.mysite.com/redirect/anything to mysite.com/anything

This will help you track the path of you redirect:

http://www.wheregoes.com

http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Proper ways to use redirects:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php