XF 2.3 Redirection Help For Relocating ‘Forums’ To ‘Root’

[Vitya]

Hello,

I understand there are several threads on moving XenForo installation from “forums” folder to “root” folder.

However, this one is specific to our situation, as we want to do it at earliest and there’s delay in support ticket response.

• We migrated from vBulletin to XenForo in 2018. During that time .htaccess was setup to redirect vB URLs to XF URL counterparts.
• We also have the route filters from beginning ONLY for nodes to prevent the term “forums” from appearing twice in the URLs.

Before relocating, we intend to remove these route filters because URLs will now have only one reference of the term “forums” upon moving to root.

The concern is:

• How to correctly setup redirects for all the URLs (including images) to point from /forums to new location / (root)?
• How to maintain the already existing vBulletin to XenForo redirects along with new ones (without possible conflicts)?
• Other than the above, I hope that relocating XenForo to a new directory only involves moving the files / folders and updating the Board URL?

Thank you

 

[Vitya]

In continuation to previous message, I forgot to add one more point:

A folder named “images” exists in both, root and forums directories (each folder has different content).-

• Should it be merged? I suspect XF may auto remove the content of the root's “images” folder upon software update.
• Or rename the root's “images” folder to something else and run a database query to replace its URLs to new ones?

Thanks