I previously started this thread - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=971444 and I was going to update it, but my question is slightly different. I currently own GirlGamers.co.uk - set up because im a member on many gaming sites and fed up of the stereotypes of male gamers and being referred to as he. Trying to expand it lately, by advertising it as a site for all, but girls game too. So we've been adding popular content such as PSP themes, but a lot of the staff want it to go back to how it was etc. Recently acquired GamerStyle from a domain sale here. The domain is 6yrs old, but doesn't have any page rank etc. GirlGamers homepage has recently changed to PR2 (forums remain at 1) and is 2yrs old. Those are the details on the situation. We were previously going to change the domain over and have GG 301 redirected. We're now thinking of doing the following: Moving the forums, content etc, to GamerStyle and have everything redirected. However, we still want to use GirlGamers as a site instead, for the old members who want to keep it how it was. This would be done, by migrating from vbulletin to another forum software (I presume it can be done, that's next on my list of things to check) so we have the members. The forums are currently on girlgamers.co.uk/forums and would become gamerstyle.com/forums - any forums added to girlgamers after this, would be girlgamers.co.uk/forum So basically, i'm asking, if it's possible to move the forums to a new domain, and have it 301 redirected, but still continue using the site for other purposes (with no dupe content). And what would be the best way to achieve this?
Yes sure. You can just redirect everything from girlgamers.co.uk/forums. I am writing this 'untested' code for apache redirection. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^girlgamers.\co\.uk$ [NC] RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://gamerstyle.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L][L,R=301] Code (markup): You can still use girlgamers.co.uk for other purpose and the forums would be redirected. I have not tested this code so you might have to make minor changes.