Is 301 redirect for me?

I am running Linux on a Godaddy dedicated server and I was wondering if .htaccess would be right for me?

I am currently running Vbulletin in a sub domain and I wanted to redirect visitors to my new forum. If so would I place my .htaccess file in my subdomain?

Thanks!

 

Yup, place the .htaccess file containing the 301 redirect in the subdomain's root directory.

 

Let me understand: you need to redirect the visitors from the main domain (eg. www.example.com) to a subdomain (eg. forum.example.com) ?

If yes, you need to put the .htaccess with 301 redirect in the root of the main domain.

Have a nice day.

 

Plans have changed.

Instead of redirecting the whole forum which is www.loansafe.org/forum, I need to redirect each thread so I can keep my PageRank. How would I do this?

 

I can't visit your site to take a look (Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click here).

Please be more specific (redirect from where to where).

 

Note 2: I think you need two .htaccess files, to keep old links from search engines:

- one for redirecting from old location to new location (main root)
- second for redirecting old links location to new location (forum root)

Have a nice day.

 

OK,

Some of my threads in my forum rank high on google. (www.exmaple.com/forum/thread1)

I wanted to redirect those threads to my new forum which are located on me new site. (www.exmaple2.com/forum/thread1)

Would I use .htaccess to redirect those posts and if so how would i do this?

Thank you.

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One more question: example1.com and example2.com are hosted in the same location or the new site will be hosted in another location ?

It's important to know, for the .htaccess file and where you need to put it.

 

example2.com is located in a different location from example1.com..

 

Place this .htaccess the root of example1.com:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# example1.com : 301 redirect to example2.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)example1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example2.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

This should be enough. On example2.com you don't need any changes if the forum structure remains the same.

Have a nice day.

 

By using this .htaccess file in the root will it redirect individual posts to their new locations or do I need to think of another redirect?

 

Using this will redirect each post from example1.com/{params} to example2.com/{params}.

Have a nice day.