Redirect all traffic to new sub domain?

Hi,

Currently our forum is hosted like this http://www.domain.com/forum. We are moving our forum too: http://forum.domain.com/.

We have over 650k pages indexed in google. Is there anyway we can place a .htaccess redirect in the /forum/ root so ANY traffic hitting /forum/ will go to the new sub-domain?

We have root access on a windows server 2003 box.

Thanks

 

Bump.....

 

i am not expert in it .. but i think 301 redirect would serve your purpose.

but importantly why you have done it ?

 

Hi,

Yes i appreciate a 301 is the correct way but I was wondering HOW to do it with .htaccess. I want the WHOLE of sub-dir to be 301'ed to the sub-domain as there are many threads\links etc.

So anything going too:

http://www.domain.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4495

Will now go too:

http://forum.domain.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4495

Is this possible? Why have are we going to do it? Basically we want the forum on a sub-domain...

 

Yes it is:

RedirectMatch 301 /forum/(.*) http://forum.domain.com/forum/$1

That's all.

 

How about this. Put in home directory .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com
RewriteRule ^forum/?(.*) http://forum.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

S

 

Thanks for the replies guys... What is the best solution? ...or is it 6 of one half a dozen of the other?

 

Mine is best ofcourse

 

so literally do I just create a file called ".htaccess" and put the following code in there (in the /forum/ folder)?

RedirectMatch 301 /forum/(.*) http://forum.domain.com/forum/$1

PHP:

 

Hmm prob being thick but on windows server 2003 you can't have a filename ".htaccess"...

 

Hehe you started about that one Are you using apache? Or IIS?

 

I am using IIS.....