XF 1.5 Switching from subdomain

[albnaldo]

Hello,

I created a subdomain on my site and installed Xenforo. It is like forum.mysite.com, but for some reason the forum also appears when I go to mysite.com/forum. Now what is the best way to remove the subdomain forum and only have mysite.com/forum and forum.mysite.com redirects to mysite.com/forum?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Add this to the top of your .htaccess file to enforce one URL:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

 

[albnaldo]

This redirect works only if the subdomain stays alive, right? If I delete the subdomain, will mysite.com/forum also get deleted. How can I have mysite.com/forum and forum.mysite.com redirect to that link, but the subdomain is completely removed from the server?

 

[Jake Bunce]

The subdomain will need to remain on the server so that both URLs are active. Then the rewrite rule will enforce redirects to just the one URL.