Redirect from phpbb subforum to main forum?

arch stanton · PR1 Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 113

dcz, I want to move all threads from a couple of subforums back into the parent forum and then delete the subforums.

The trouble is that I have some good backlinks to the subforum URLs, which I don't want to throw away.

I guess the answer is to add a line or two to my .htaccess, so that incoming links to those subforum URLs will be redirected to the parent forum.

In other words, let's say the URLs are:

-www.mydomain.com/forum/starwars/leia-f25 and
-www.mydomain.com/forum/starwars/luke-f26

What lines do I need so that they both redirect to
-www.mydomain.com/forum/starwars-f11?

Thanks. Smile

dcz

Is this dealing with phpBB2 or phpBB3 ?

Please post in the appropriate forum.

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arch stanton · PR1 Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 113

phpbb3

Sorry, I thought this was the correct forum, as it's a mod rewrite query as far as I can tell rather than a phpbb one. But feel free to move the topic to a more appropriate place if you think it shouldn't be here.

I only want two URLs to be redirected into one. So would the following work?

redirect 301 forum/starwars/leia-f25 http://www.mydomain.com/forum/starwars-f11 and

redirect 301 forum/starwars/luke-f26 http://www.mydomain.com/forum/starwars-f11 ?

And if so, where in the htaccess should they go? Above the main phpbb mod rewrite rules or below?

Thanks. Smile

dcz

Well, mod_rewrite does not seems to me to be the best way to deal with this, but it depends.

If you only have few redirect to perform, you can hard code them in the .htaccess, but if you have many, doing it with php could be better.

Your redirects should work and shall be placed before the RewriteEngine on, since it's not mod_rewrite.

Have you tested them ?

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