[madd74]

Currently, I had moved my board over from one database to another, and in doing so, still have the old forum up, but would like it to point to the new. I would imagine this would be something with .htaccess and looking for the simple way to do this

http://madd74.com/forum/index.php

to

http://madd74.com/bb/index.php

so that "forum" and "bb" change, but everything after is the same, so if I had forum/newthing.html that it would then point to bb/newthing.html

Last few times I did not pay attention to .htaccess processes I ended up rending my whole site as a 500 server error

Thanks!

[Mudley]

mod_rewrite is your answer

probably something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/forum/([0-9A-Za-z\-\.]+)$ /bb/$1 [L]

i'm not sure about the \. in the regular expression though, i've never done it quite like that. I can confirm and test and modify tomorrow though when i'm at work (would do it now, but it will interfere with CoD4 time)

[colinsp]

Alternatively you can achieve the same thing with a domain / url redirect by using cPanel if that is what you host uses without delving into mod_rewrite.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by Mudley

i'm not sure about the \. in the regular expression though, i've never done it quite like that.

That's to "escape" the dot so the dot won't be used as a special character in the regular expression but as an actual "dot".

Peace...

[Mudley]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

That's to "escape" the dot so the dot won't be used as a special character in the regular expression but as an actual "dot".

Peace...

i know, thats why i added it :P
i just wasn't sure if thats exactly what the rule needed to be without testing it

[tomdkat]

Ah, gotcha.

Peace...

[madd74]

Originally Posted by colinsp

Alternatively you can achieve the same thing with a domain / url redirect by using cPanel if that is what you host uses without delving into mod_rewrite.

That actually worked exactly as I was looking for Thanks!