How to change site forum root

[crofty]

Hi there,

Its my first time trying to change my forum root, and I'm having some trouble.

I have a vbulletin site and I want to make the forum root www.mysite.com/forums/ instead of mysite.com

I've tried a few things but they havent seemed to work and at the moment if I go to mysite.com it goes to the root page and it says forums/ then when you click that it takes me to my site.

So I need some help redirection root to /forums/

If anyone knows how that would be great. Thanks.

 

[Amancio]

Redirect via htaccess

 

[crofty]

Ive tried this, but I'm not sure if I did it right, could you possible post what I should put in the htaccess file?

 

[Amancio]

Redirect /index.html http://yoursite.com/forums/index.php

 

[crofty]

If it wasn't index.html just yoursite.com would I put Redirect / http://yoursite.com/forums/index.php ??

 

[Amancio]

Yes, or add a blank index.html to the root

 

[crofty]

Ah ok ill try it out now, for this to work, will I need to put all the files in a folder called forums in my forum root, and then stick the .htaccess and blank index.html in the forum root not the forums folder?

 

[Amancio]

You stick the htaccess in the root, not in the /forums directory. And yes, you'll need to move all your vB files to the /forums/ folder and then change the link in the ACP

 

[crofty]

Ok thanks for your help, +rep

 

[Amancio]

No problem, pm me if you need any help.