moved forum to root from /forum/ how to 301 redirect?

shozen1 · March 2012

I have moved my forum to root from /forum/ and I understand this may be extremely obvious and im almost there but how to do this exactly? I need to redirect all pages to the new location in root...

Currently I am using redirect 301 /forum/ http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/ in .htaccess and it almost works but misses out the forward flash / before /discussion folder. Example.

http://www.kaohsiungliving.orgdiscussion/715/question-what-would-you-think-of-a-counselling-service-for-ex-pats/p1?p=discussion/715/question-what-would-you-think-of-a-counselling-service-for-ex-pats/p1

As you can see "www.kaohsiungliving.orgdiscussion/" no "/" before discussion This is probably an extremely easy thing to do, and I have googled away but have only found partial success.

Please help

x00 · March 2012

I have a solution. Vanilla routes.

First comment out the RedirectMatch in .htaccess

then go to dashboard/routes -> Add Route

Route Expression:

forum(/.*)

Target:

$1

Type:

Permanent 301

Done!

Yes it is internal conflict of interest to answer your question.

x00 · March 2012

RedirectMatch ^/forum/.* http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/

shozen1 · March 2012

doesnt work - still no "/" before discussion folder. Redirects conversations without the "/" look closely at the redirected discussion url below:

http://www.kaohsiungliving.orgdiscussion/715/question-what-would-you-think-of-a-counselling-service-for-ex-pats/p1?p=discussion/715/question-what-would-you-think-of-a-counselling-service-for-ex-pats/p1

shozen1 · March 2012

@x00 thank you so much! its working like vanilla! one question though, what kind of redirect is this? I should be using 301, I think?

x00 · March 2012

to redirect all uri

RedirectMatch 301 ^/forum/(.*) http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/$1

another way

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

shozen1 · March 2012

Damn it! now its adding "/?p=forum/" before /discussion hence not redirecting properly. Example below.

http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/?p=forum/discussion/710/native-american-english-teacher-looking-for-afternoon-evening-cram-school/p1

x00 · March 2012

show the whole .htacess contents. Use <pre> tags. You have most like got thing in the wrong order.

shozen1 · March 2012

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified
RedirectMatch ^/forum/.* http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/

   RewriteEngine On
   # Certain hosts may require the following line.
   # If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after 

the /. 
   # (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: 
RewriteBase /forum)
   # RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]

thank you for your time!

shozen1 · March 2012

its missing parts of the .htaccess above, ill try pasting again:

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified
RedirectMatch ^/forum/.* http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   # Certain hosts may require the following line.
   # If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /. 
   # (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: 
RewriteBase /forum)

   # RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

this ^ is exactly how my .htaccess looks.

shozen1 · March 2012

using RedirectMatch 301 ^/forum/(.*) http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/$1 i get a double up of the discussion url - for example:

http://www.kaohsiungliving.org/discussion/648/short-term-high-pay-public-teaching-position-in-china/p1?p=forum/discussion/648/short-term-high-pay-public-teaching-position-in-china/p1

again - its almost there im so close...why has it duplicated the discussion part of the url?

been trying to get this working for 3 hours now with only partial success...

x00 · March 2012