Rewrite rules question

[Ranma1981]

Hello,

I noted some errors from Google Webmaster Tools, regard months ago, when I move my forum to sub-domain.

So, to resolve them, I need to set to rewrite rules, to redirect threads and members, from forum "as sub-folder" to forum "as sub-domain".

Example:

Threads:

mysite.it/forum/threads/la-persona-che-scrive-dopo-di-me.4546/

To:

forum.mysite.it/threads/la-persona-che-scrive-dopo-di-me.4546/

Same thing, for members:

mysite.it/forum/members/bandmich.48588/

forum.mysite.it/members/bandmich.48588/

Please, what are the rules to set these redirects?

Thanks!

 

[Mr Lucky]

I think you have various possibilities.

In the root of mysite.it

RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)$ http://forum.mysite.it/$1 [R=301,L]

or

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.it$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(forum/)?(.*)$ http://forum.mysite.it/$2 [R=301,L]

Or very simply in the /forum/ directory of mysite.it

Redirect 301 / http://forum.mysite.it/

 

[Ranma1981]

Hello Mermaid,

thank you, it works fine

Please, can I ask you another little help? This rewrite rules, give me crazy

I noted other errors from Webmaster Tools, I need to fix these type of urls:

From:

http://forum.mysite.it/msn-messenger/34840-eminem-skin-per-msn-messenger.html

To:

http://forum.mysite.it/threads/eminem-skin-per-msn-messenger.34840/

Therefore, there is the the problem that on the first url, frequently change "msn-messenger" to other category name; is there a generic rewrite rule to redirect these url's? Postname and id, fortunately, are always the same.

Example of another url:

http://forum.mysite.it/cms/58879-guida-installazione-cms-coppermine-photo-gallery.html

To:

http://forum.mysite.it/threads/guida-installazione-cms-coppermine-photo-gallery.58879/

Thank you very much!

 

[Mr Lucky]

I'm glad the above worked for you.

I'm not so sure about the other one, you could try:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?forum.mysite.it$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(msn-messenger/)?(.*)$ http://forum.mysite.it/threads/$2 [R=301,L]

EDIT: I just noticed this is wrong. I am attempting to change the directory name, but I see the actual html page name is a different format and that is beyond me I'm afraid.

 

[Ranma1981]

Hello,

it is the "category name", so it change with the name of the category of the forum; it was generated automatically when I used vBulletin + vBSEO.