URL Redirection

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by wil888, Aug 18, 2007.

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    SEO Question

    Hope you can help me

    I am SEOing my site

    I placed my SMF PHP Forum in a directory like this

    http://example.com/main/smf/forum/index.php

    I have no index.html or index.php in the root which means when you go to the root it says,

    "Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.
    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.healthliberty.org Port 80    "

    I would like to use the root directory for my forum without transferring the files and folders.

    I called my host (godaddy) but they say that they cannot redirect since it is in the path of the root domain

    I tried to copy the index.php file in the path to the root but there were errors.

    My servers supports apache and php.

    I would like to know if there will be issues with google and yahoo if I will redirect using codes in apache and php. The truth is i dont know yet how to use codes in php and apache (something like .htaccess file).

    My server root has no other files other that folders and subdirectories where all the other files are stored.

    If there are no issues with google or yahoo, what would be the best way to redirect the page to the directory of the root


    Thank you so much for reading this post. I just learned how to create forums 2 weeks ago. even php installation. Im in the medical field thats why its really hard for me researching. Probably it will take months for me to get everything. Hope experts can help me.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    wil888, Aug 18, 2007 IP
  2. wil888

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    in addition,

    it has a sub domain that goes to the path. http://forums.example.com/ that goes to http://example.com/main/smf/forum/index.php

    what do i need to do. thanks all
     
    wil888, Aug 19, 2007 IP
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    Not really understand about your question but i'll try to help.

    You have a forum at:
    http://example.com/main/smf/forum/index.php
    and you want people who visit the http://example.com will be directed to the forum above?

    If so create an empty index.php copy paste the following code into it and upload it to the root http://example.com
    You can use the same file for http://forums.example.com/

    The url on the browser would be the long one. If you want it unchanged you could try learning .htaccess

    It's quite strange though that you have a http://forums.example.com/ and http://example.com/ if you have nothing else just use the root, if you have blog or something than use the sub-domain.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,
     
    SolomonZhang, Aug 19, 2007 IP