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Redirect all traffic to new sub domain?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by amaze, Sep 6, 2006.

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    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.
    SEMrush
    Thanks
     
    amaze, Sep 6, 2006 IP
    SEMrush
  2. amaze

    amaze Active Member

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    Bump..... :)
     
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  3. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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

    but importantly why you have done it ?
     
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    Yes it is:

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

    That's all.
     
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    stuey Peon

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    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
     
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    Thanks for the replies guys... What is the best solution? ...or is it 6 of one half a dozen of the other?
     
    amaze, Sep 7, 2006 IP
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    Mine is best ofcourse :p
     
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    ;)

    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:
     
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    Hmm prob being thick but on windows server 2003 you can't have a filename ".htaccess"...
     
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    Hehe you started about that one :) Are you using apache? Or IIS?
     
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    I am using IIS..... :)
     
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