How come? I'm pretty sure no one has never not made it here by putting in that URL. Also, if you feel it's important, why don't you do it on your own?
I don't use a subdomain though nor do I use directory. All my forums are domain. And I'm pretty sure that people have typed that in. Check your stats and see. I am sure a quick query on your error logs should suffice. grep '/forum' error_log
I'm not saying someone hasn't typed the wrong URL, I'm just saying I bet those people still made it to the right URL afterwards already.
I agree but my guess is that if someone is stupid enough to type the /forums/ that they'll at the least do a google search. Why lose the traffic or have the bounce when you can recover the traffic with a couple lines in htaccess? Don't be lazy. Be the pro we know you are. Take the 3 minutes and save possibly hundreds of users those few clicks. Jeez didn't even notice that one.
lol...well it's your call. Just thought I'd throw it out there. So based on your reply does this mean you don't have any htaccess at all? And I can't imagine your home page at www.digitalpoint.com gets that many visitors in comparison to your forums. Plus you do realize you could do this in the httpd.conf and avoid htaccess. Hulk Smash! Shawn you're probably one of the only guys I'd like to have lunch with. Let me know if you ever visit Vegas. I'll buy.
Correct, we have .htaccess files disabled (pointless disk I/O resources to check for the file every http request). And I know you can drop rules into httpd.conf, but evaluating rules requires a tiny amount of CPU overhead. Just not worth it in my opinion... The only purpose it would serve is helping people be lazy. Was in Vegas this weekend.