XF 1.4 Moving forum to a subdomain

[slewis1972]

Ok, at the moment, my forum is in the root directory of my domain.

I hence want to move it to forum.lynefc.co.uk as my front page is now going to be a wordpress site run from there. But do I need to do anything else apart from changing my board url?

Do I need to add to htaccess folder to advise of the change, even though the files are going to be in the root of the subdomain?

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

The FAQ in my signature explains the steps required for a site move.

 

[slewis1972]

Ok, thanks but my relative paths are:

Current root: /var/sites/w/www.lynefc.co.uk/public_html/

Subdomain: /var/sites/w/www.lynefc.co.uk/subdomains/forums/

so, will my rewrite be (based on a google search, If I understand correctly

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)$ http://forums.lynefc.co.uk/$1

or

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) ../subdomains/forums/ [R=301]

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[Mike]

Rewrites are almost always written in the scope of URLs. I believe your first one should work, though I'm not positive on the leading / in the regex.. However, you're not going to be able to use that if you're putting something else in that directory -- you'd need to make rules that match specific URLs (or sets of URLs) that you want to redirect (such as starting with "threads/", "forums/", "members/", etc).