how i can transfer my forum to subdomin

[mhmdkhamis]

hello every body

how i can transfer my forum to subdomin

my forum now is
http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/

i want to tranfer it to

http://www.forum.paramegsoft.com

without lost pages in google

[dcz]

Well, you must know you'll have more work to SEO both your sub domain and main domain, as both will require backlinks.

Using sub domains can be a good thing, but not necessarily in all cases. Have you read this ?

Anyway, to do so the principle is quite simple.

You just need to install you sub domain on your server, and have it linked to the forum/ folder, the forum/ folder will thus be the sub domain's root, as well phpbb will thus be installed in it's domain's root too.

This means you'll need to implement the forum's .htaccess in it's domain root, eg the forum/ folder, without paths in it, take the root install one.

This means you should get rid of you previous forum rewriterules à the main domain's root.

Then, once everything is working, you'll need to redirect -http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/ to -http://www.forum.paramegsoft.com (by the way did you checked you can use the www prefix on your sub domains ?)
This is easy, you can use the www prefix redirection to take car of this, in the forum/ folder.

Should either be :

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

or :

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

depending on the www prefix final usage on the sub domain

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[mhmdkhamis]

mmmmmm i think it hard to tranfer and build back link for both

thnks dcz u are ready every time

[matrix37a]

thank you dcz