XF 2.0 Redirect from /forums/ to root

[Mr Lucky]

I have one forum that is installed in /forums/ but I now need to move it to the root.

Normally I would use this in .htaccess

RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

but of course that messes with the xenForo path for the forum list and the forums themeselves, and so the Forums tab just gets redirected to the home page.

I have a route filter changing forums/ to forum/ . This allows the forum navigation tab to work, but any external inbound links with /forums/ don't work


(Obviously a similar redirect works fine for my other forum that is redirected out of /community/ but of course that does not conflict with the xenForo /forums/ URL)

Does anyone please know a way round this or are we stuck forever with the xenforo installed in /forums?

Thanks

 

[Mike]

Essentially, you would need to redirect specific sub-routes that don't conflict, so things like forums/forums/ and forums/threads/. This won't cover every URL -- you'd need to list all the ones you want -- but it should cover most of the common cases.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Thanks that makes sense. So I'd probably only need:

forums/forums/ to forums/
forums/threads/ to threads/
forums/resources/ to resources/

to cover most common eventualities of external links/bookmarks.

My problem now then is finding the .htaccess to do that, nothing I've tried works, e.g:

RewriteRule ^forums/forums/(.*)$ /forums/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

does anyone know what I'd need?

Thanks

 

[Mike]

I think that'd work, though make sure you're trying with a fresh URL each time to avoid browser caching issues. Beyond that, make sure you've removed the "general" rule, as the first match will be triggered.

 

[Mr Lucky]

But this does not work:

RewriteRule ^forums/threads/(.*)$ /threads/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

 

[Mike]

I don't see why it wouldn't off hand. Where does it redirect you to? Do you have an example URL we can test?

 

[Mr Lucky]

OK, it is working now. maybe it just needed you to say it should. Redirects are voodoo IMO. Or it was cache thing. (I blame most things on cache)

Thanks.

 

[Sim]

Redirects are voodoo IMO. Or it was cache thing. (I blame most things on cache)

Don't forget that most browsers now aggressively cache 301 redirects - even ignoring Ctrl-F5 and such and ignoring any changes you make to your code or web server config.

You basically need to clear the cache completely to get rid of them - or while testing, use a 302 redirect and then change it to 301 once you're happy it works.

I find testing redirects in incognito mode generally works better - I believe the cache is flushed when the incognito browser is closed.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Don't forget that most browsers now aggressively cache 301 redirects - even ignoring Ctrl-F5 and such and ignoring any changes you make to your code or web server config.

You basically need to clear the cache completely to get rid of them - or while testing, use a 302 redirect and then change it to 301 once you're happy it works.

I find testing redirects in incognito mode generally works better - I believe the cache is flushed when the incognito browser is closed.

Thanks, this sounds useful

 

[Pedro Pino]

Hello everyone
We moved our forum from root to forums folder
this should be ok?
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ /forums/forums/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^threads/(.*)$ /forums/threads/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ /forums/resources/$1 [R=301,NC,L]