Hi,

I installed the mixed mod rewrite and the Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps and RSS v1.2.0RC4 on the forums at this Old URL http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums , but I recently moved the forum to another web host and the web host restored the forum on a new domain tvseriesmusic.com . So now the forum is at this new URL http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum . I checked to see if the friendly URLs and the mx Google sitemaps work, but none of them worked! I then uploaded the .htaccess file that I backed up from the old host's Control Panel. My question is
Do I need to fix the word "forums" and the domain treatwidevision.us in the .htaccess file or just leave them the way they were then use a different robots.txt and Zero Duplicate mod?

I could not find the robots.txt file in treatwidevision.us as mentioned in this thread in the old domain treatwidevision.us. I don't remember if I had a robots.txt before I submitted the forum for Google to index my forum pages, but I believed I did have the robots.txt file in the root folder in the old web host.

I saw the instruction:
"Migrating:

If you are migration, eg if your forum is already indexed using different URLs, you'll have to use another robots.txt and install the zero duplicate.
The migrating procedure will allow you to migrate and keep your previously indexed pages. Older links will be HTTP 301 redirected to the new ones. It is rather simple, but the solution depends on cases.
Let's meet in the Mixed mod Rewrite forum."

The instruction above says, then "you'll have to use another robots.txt," but how is it different? How will my robots.txt file look exactly? Please show me the whole thing in robots.txt for my forum (the one at the new domain tvseriesmusic.com, not the old domain treatwidevision.us) in your reply.

I already submitted my forum sitemap to Google search engine a while back. I wondered if Google indexed my forum pages, but it looks like they have not indexed my forum pages.

I also checked the Mixed mod Rewrite forum but could not find the answer to my question. It says above, "the solution depends on cases" so which case is my situation? Could you please help me as soon as possible? What are ALL of the steps that I need to do now after moving the forums to another web host and restoring the forum at another domain?

Thank you in advance. I am looking forward to your reply. Please reply soon!

For your reference:
I posted under the username "achievehigh.org" about what I installed before on pages 21 and 22 of this thread. I said this in case you needed to understand my forum situation more in helping me with my questions below.

Update on the post above:

I want to add this information to my message above.

I just added the robots.txt. I put the content in the robots.txt following the instructions on this page. Like I presented above, I couldn't find the robots.txt in my old web host before so I created a robots.txt and uploaded it into treatwidevision.us (the old URL of my forum) after I already moved the forum to another domain tvseriesmusic.com. Does it work like that?

You can see my robots. txt file at treatwidevision.us/robots.txt.

Google found an internal "SERVER" error. Please review the error because it's related to the server.

I moved the .htaccess file from the old web host to the new web host and changed from treatwidevision.us to tvseriesmusic.com at the top of the .htaccess file. I also changed from "forums" to "forum" right after this symbol ^ and toward the end right before the slash / of each RewriteRule line.

I also transferred the robots.txt file from treatwidevision.us to the new domain tvseriesmusic.com. You can check my .htaccess and robots.txt both inside the new domain tvseriesmusic.com to see if it's correct or not.

I reviewed the instructions in gym_sitemapsV1-2-0RC4.txt for [RC4] GYM Sitemaps & RSS (aka mx Google Sitemaps) here and saw there was a step (step 4) that involved MySQL database. I did what I said above to the .htaccess and robots.txt files but I did not update the MySQL database. I don't know what I need to do with the MySQL part. I usually don't want to deal with MySQL database for fear of errors.

After doing the .htaccess and robots.txt steps above, the friendly forum URLs work. However, when I submitted the sitemap to Google to review and index after logging in www.google.com/webmasters , Google told me after one or two days of sitemap submission that they found one error.


Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
- Network unreachable: Network unreachable
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follow the guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

HTTP Error: 500 (Internal server error)
Found: May 23, 2008

I submitted this forum sitemap http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/sitemaps.xml to Google and Google found that error. You can see here that this SAME sitemap http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/sitemaps.xml (carries the URL treatwidevision.us and hosted by another web host) that I also submitted to Google before, but Google didn't find any error in that same sitemap, but the site map http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/sitemaps.xml that carries the new URL hosted by another web host has error.

Why did I see this forum URL http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/sitemap.php?forum=57 under the sitemap details in my Google's account when that URL is not on my site map at http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/sitemaps.xml? In the "sitemap summary" in my Google account, I saw only up to this URL http://treatwidevision.us/forums/sitemap.php?forum=56 for the same sitemap that was in its old URL. How do I fix the error for my sitemap at its new URL http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/sitemaps.xml?


Can you please help me? How come no one knows the answers to my questions at php-seo forum? How can I get technical support at this forum?

sorry for delay.

So, from your first post, the only issue seems to have been the change in the folder name where phpBB is installed, from forums/ to forum/, this means that, since you changed the domain name as well, you need to update phpBB config for the domain name, the cookie domain and the script path.*

The rewriterules do not match either anymore since they mention the old install path.
With the zero duplicate up and running, you'd only need to replace all occurrences of :

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^forums/

with

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^forums?/

in the .htaccess (exact match, only one change per rewriterule), for both the new and the old path to be usable in urls, the zero duplicate doing the required redirecting to the new forum path.

As well, you need to http 301 redirect the old domain to the new one, this can be done with different technique, you can either keep the old domain linked to some small hosting from where you would use a redirect-permanent or make the old domain dns match the new domain server (which means that both domain are installed on the same physical dir) and then implement the www redirecting trick (method n°2) for the new domain only, both solution will do the trick, you really need to implement one ASAP.

Once all this will be done up and running, I bet GYM will too

Thank you. I have some questions for clarification.

For reference:
Old forum URL: www.treatwidevision.us/forums hosted by old web host
New forum URL: www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum hosted by new web host


Question about Redirect:
Do I need to redirect the forum from the old domain treatwidevision.us to the new domain tvseriesmusic.com? Google says that they have not indexed my forum at the old URL www.treatwidevision.us/forums . Can I just make the sitemap anew meaning just change the .htaccess file in the new domain as if the old forum never existed and as if it's the first time I do the URL rewrite, install the GYM sitemap, and lock the www in URLs for the forum? Can I not do the redirect from treatwidevision.us/forums to tvseriesmusic.com/forum because Google has not indexed my forum at the old URL yet? In addition, there are many sites and files that carry the old URL and I want them to carry that old URL treatwidevision.us/filename.htm or treatwidevision.us/foldername or subdomain/treatwidevision.us/foldername/filename. I don't wish to have my things in the old domain to get wiped out when redirecting though. I also have to delete the old forum at its old URL treatwidevision.us/forums because my hosting package will no longer have php and database. Is there another way to do it without redirecting the forum at its old URL to its new URL? What to do in this situation? Can I just leave the content in the .htaccess and robots.txt the same as the ones I pasted below?



RewriteRule in .htaccess:
I thought I had to change from "forums" to "forum" right after the symbol ^ in the RewriteRule but you mentioned right after this symbol ^ in RewriteRule change it from "forums" to "forums?" and that's the only change I need to do per RewriteRule line. I am confused why it's like that. I wonder if I am reading your message the way you intend it to be.
Here is what I did to my .htaccess file in the new domain tvseriesmusic.com. Please see it below:

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tvseriesmusic\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forum/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forum/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forum/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forum/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^forum/rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forum/forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^forum/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^forum/.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^forum/sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^forum/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^forum/.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^forum/urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /forum/urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################

SeO wrote:in the .htaccess (exact match, only one change per rewriterule), for both the new and the old path to be usable in urls,. . .

When you mentioned, "both the new and the old path," did you mean just fix that part from "forums" to "forums?" before the symbol ^ in each RewriteRule line in the .htaccess file inside the new domain tvseriesmusic.com and also inside the old domain treatwidevision.us?

I didn't install the Zero Duplicate in the forum at the old URL or the new URL. Do I need to install it and do I install it into the forum at its new URL tvseriesmusic.com/forum or both the old and new URL?


About the robots.txt file, here is the whole content of my robots.txt in the new domain tvseriesmusic.com

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/viewtopic.php
Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php
Disallow: /forum/index.php?
Disallow: /forum/posting.php
Disallow: /forum/groupcp.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/privmsg.php
Disallow: /forum/post
Disallow: /forum/member
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forum/faq.php

Config.php file:
Where in the config.php file do I need to fix? Could you please check my forum at the new URL? Did that part in the config.php file get fixed already? Is that why the forum pages can be accessed at the new URL www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum .


Cookie:
I already installed the Auto Cookie mod (auto_cookies_202a) and did the Cookie Dance shortly after restoring the forum at the new URL. Was that what you meant in your reply when you mentioned "the cookie domain and the script path.*?"

Could you please help me understand everything I asked better?

So, it's easier than you think, but many things are involved here.

Right now, both urls goes to the same place without redirecting, as you can see, the old domain has PageRank (3) and it in deed was indexed by Google : 1570 pages in cache.

So you really want to properly redirect the old domain to the new one to keep all this.

This mean you need to keep the old domain as long as possible (better if always), as said, you can either keep it with a web-space and perform the redirecting from there or set the old domain dns so that it will indeed lead to the same place as the new one (both domains installed on the same web space). I'm not sure in your case, but it looks like the two domains are fully separated for now, two dbs and two web-spaces.

The cheaper is of course to set the dns to match the new domain web-space, since you would not need to pay for two web-spaces.

To do the redirecting with both domain set on the same host, you just need to implement the www redirection (method n°2) in your .htaccess for the new domain (the only one to in the end use), all the old links known by bots or posted on other site will continue to work, they will be redirected to the new location and will make sure everybody understand the update. It's really important SEO wise.

About the phpBB config, when you change domain and / or install path (both in your case), you need to update the domain and script path set in the phpbb_config table (general settings in acp).

They are used by the script in various tasks and must match the actual settings to work properly.
The cookie domains should always be the domain name prefixed with a dot : .example.com in case -www.example.com (or example.com) is the domain used on the forum.

About the rewriterule, adding the "s?" in the path allows the use of both forum/ and forums/ in the urls. You need to let them both working at first to allow redireting (byt the zero dupe), since the old url will include the s and the new one won't.

For example :

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RewriteRule ^forum/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

becomes :

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RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

The question mark just tells the matching engine to eventually as well match an "s" at then end of the forum string in the RegEx.

Thank you for your reply. To thank you, I clicked on Google ads on your forum. I've also read everything in your second reply right above and also checked the URL you pasted.

I need to ask some old questions again because I believed you missed them and will also ask new but related questions to help me understand what you've written and to help me know what to do considering my small budget.


Question 1:
I did what you advised the first time you replied on May 24. I redirected from http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums to http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum exactly like this using "Redirect URL" in my old web host. Please take a look at this screen capture to see if I redirect the forum at its old URL to its new URL correctly. The reason the second URL doesn't have "www" is because the "Redirect URL" gave me a box to paste in my new forum URL so I pasted in tvseriesmusic.com and the box before it only has http://. I also changed ^forums/ to ^forums?/ in the first part of each RewriteRule line. I left "/forums" with "s" for the middle part of each RewriteRule line in the .htaccess located at the root of the old domain hosted by the old web host and put /forum in the .htaccess located at the root of the new domain hosted by the new web host.
Please see what I did to the .htaccess and robots.txt files in both the old and new domains in my next message below this one. Did I do everything in the .htaccess and robots.txt files in both the old and new domains correctly for the forum?


Question 2:
I haven't installed the Zero Duplicate here yet. I believed you forgot to let me know if I need to install the Zero Duplicate and where to install it. Do I install this Zero Duplicate, the file and instructions here? Do I install that Zero Duplicate into the forum at its new URL tvseriesmusic.com/forum or both the old treatwidevision.us/forums and new URL?


Question 3: The sitemaps.xml at the old forum URL
Google said in the webmaster part of my Google account that No URLs of my forum at treatwidevision.us/forums were indexed. Please see this screen capture.

"It says, Indexed URLs: 0."

For this same sitemap for the forum at its old domain, Google says there are no errors in it. Please also see the screen capture.
Google says no error in sitemap for forum at old URL

However, Google says these pages of the forum at its old URLs violate the guidelines.
Sample URLs that violate the guidelines:
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/topic469.html
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/member918.html
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/post13579.html
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/post15094.html
http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/po ... highlight=
Please see the screen capture of the URLs that Google says violate their guidelines here. I checked those forum pages but they looked fine. They looked like the other pages that didn't violate the guidelines. Could you please let me know what go wrong with the above pages and how to fix them so that they do not look like they contain or link to badwares? Did someone hack into my forum and made changes to the code or something?
As I remembered, shortly after I submitted the sitemaps.xml for the forum at its old domain, Google said no error in the sitemap. However, xat.com did something to their flash chat box that I put on my forum, making the Internet Explorer unable to load the page like before because it was missing some plugins. Then it seemed that Google couldn't read some of my forum pages and suddenly showed in the "Sitemap details" of my Google account what you saw in the third screen capture relating the sitemaps.xml (with the file name "Google_says_these_pages_of_treatwidevision.us_forums_violate_the_guidelines.jpg") and also put in the search engine for www.treatwidevision.us/forums this wrong label, "this site May harm the computer." I already sent Google a message asking them to review my forum again and told them that it was the chat box that I got from www.xat.com and used it at the top of the forum that caused Google to incorrectly labeled my forum. I told Google that my forum didn't have badwares and I also moved the forum to the new domain tvseriesmusic.com. Though I've submitted the request for reevaluation of my forum, I haven't heard from Google yet because they say it takes a while for them to review. Now I've deleted the sitemap for the forum at the old domain from my Google account, I don't know what is going to happen.

When you visit my forum at both the old and new URLs, you no longer see that flash chat box I got from xat.com. That chat box caused a problem presented above thus, I took it off the forum at the old and new URLs. I presented the situation so that you would know what has happened in order to help me.

Yesterday, I deleted the sitemaps.xml from Google submission for my forum at the old URL because Google wrongly labeled my forum like that and also because Google said they did not index my forum pages and the only page Google indexed was the main index http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums . Please look at this screen capture which doesn't show this forum URL www.treatwidevision.us/forums and its sitemap under "Dashboard." My question is do I need to resubmit the sitemaps.xml for the forum hosted inside the old domain?


Please note that I already resubmitted the sitemaps.xml for the forum at the new domain to ask Google to index my forum pages and it said no errors. Please see this screen capture in which I combined all of the details that Google gave me in my Google account regarding my sitemaps.xml for the forum at the new domain. Although Google says in my account that no data is available for "Indexed URLs in Sitemap," it appears that Google has indexed less than 30 of my forum pages. Please see them here . I don't understand why Google indexed the member pages as well when my robots.txt file in the new domain says disallow them. Furthermore, the descriptions for the links that have the word "post#" in Google don't look much like the content of the forum pages (strange descriptions). Because I resubmitted the sitemaps.xml for the forum at the new URL some days ago, the .htaccess file had the exact content that I pasted in my post right above, dated Sat May 24. However, I don't know if Google will say there are errors later on like how they did a few days after the first time I submitted the same sitemaps.xml for my forum at the new URL.


Question 4a:

SeO wrote:. . . set the old domain dns so that it will indeed lead to the same place as the new one (both domains installed on the same web space). . .

From your suggestion above, I want to ask about the second technique of redirection. If I login my domain account at the domain registrar and change the DNS of treatwidevision.us to match the DNS of the new domain tvseriesmusic.com, do I need to move the exact same folder "forums" and its database from the old host to the new host and put that folder "forums" inside treatwidevision.us in the new host? Can I delete everything inside the folder "forums" and its database that stores the forum data at the old web host?


Question 4b: If I consider the first technique of redirecting, I will need to keep everything in the folder "forums" and the forum database in the old web host, correct? For how long do I need to keep everything in the folder "forums" and the forum database at the old web host? As I mentioned before, I will not have CGI and database in my web host package at the old web host that I will downgrade to. So I will need to delete the forum database in the old web host eventually. But if I delete the folder "forums" and its database in the old web host, then the old forum URLs will not work and the first redirect-permanent method you've shown me will not work either. Is this correct? What to do? What options can I take? I want to downgrade my web hosting plan though to cut cost. I agree with you that one web host is cheaper than two web hosts, but I can't cancel the old web host yet because I have many files that will not fit in the space in the new web host.

Here are my thoughts. I read that Google will update (delete) their index the next time they spider web pages. If Google browses to the forum pages at its old forum URLs and don't see the pages there, they will delete them from their index. I can also send them another message informing them that I already restored the forum at its new URL and ask them to remove all of the old forum URLs at this URL you gave. Since I've resubmitted the sitemaps.xml for my forum at the new URL, they will index them in 10 days to a month. Does it work this way? I really don't want the wrong label, "this site may harm the computer" that Google wrongly put on my forum at its old URL because it may prevent many visitors from coming to my forum. I think a large part of the big decrease in Alexa traffic ranking of my forum at the old domain has to do with Google's wrong label on my forum, making visitors and perhaps members unable to access the forum at the old domain from clicking on the links to the forum pages in the search engine. That is partly why redirecting the old forum URLs to the new forum URLs may not help? You can try clicking on a link displayed at the search results. Therefore, I want to have Google index my forum pages at their new URLs and start everything fresh and new.

Some background information to help make the right decision:
As I can recall, after I installed the phpbb forum with everything default and it was not optimized for Google search engine, the ranking of my forum at the old URL at alexa.com was closer to 100,000 and the forum got around 5,000 members the first year. Then it slowly got a few more members the second year. It hasn't even gotten to 6,000 members in the second year! What a disappointment! The traffic ranking is now 391,000+ which is far from 100,000 compared to when the forum was plain and default.


I will wait for your reply. This whole thing will take a while. Please address all of my questions as clearly as possible because I am still cloudy about these things. Could you please insert your answer above or below each part of my question for questions 1-4 in your reply to avoid missing some parts of my questions.

This message supplements the above message. So please read the above message first because that is the order of my messages and the message above is the one that contains my important questions.

This was what I did to the .htaccess file in my old domain treatwidevision.us hosted by the old web host. Please notice the first part and the middle part of each RewriteRule. The first part of each RewriteRule has ^forums?. The middle part of each RewriteRule has "/forums" with letter "s."

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^treatwidevision\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.treatwidevision.us/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forums?/index\.html$ /forums/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forums/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums?/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums?/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^forums?/rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forums?/forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^forums?/sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^forums?/urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /forums/urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################

This was what I did to the .htaccess file in my new domain hosted by the new web host. Please notice the first part and the middle part of each RewriteRule. The first part of each RewriteRule also has ^forums?. The middle part of each RewriteRule has "/forum" without letter "s."

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tvseriesmusic\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forums?/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums?/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums?/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^forums?/rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forums?/forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^forums?/sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^forums?/urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /forum/urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################

This is my robots.txt in the old domain treatwidevision.us hosted by the old web host.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/viewtopic.php
Disallow: /forums/viewforum.php
Disallow: /forums/index.php?
Disallow: /forums/posting.php
Disallow: /forums/groupcp.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/privmsg.php
Disallow: /forums/post
Disallow: /forums/member
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php

I already posted the whole content of the robots.txt inside my new domain tvseriesmusic.com in my Sat May 24 message above. Please review that robots.txt file if needed.

Question 5: regarding robots.txt inside my new domain
Why do I need to disallow Google from browsing these forum pages
/forum/viewtopic.php
/forum/viewforum.php
/forum/index.php?
inside my new domain tvseriesmusic.com?

Google shows in my Google account that it cannot browse more than two thousand pages including member pages and normal forum pages. Thus, Google cannot index so many of my forum threads, but I want them to index those normal forum pages. I just don't want them to index forum member pages and memberlist. Did I do something incorrectly in the robots.txt at the root of the new domain? Did I do the robots.txt at the root of the old domain correctly?



Here is how the "Cookie settings" of my forum "Configuration" looks inside the forum's Admin Control Panel.
phpbb Configuration: Cookie settings

You're making this too complicated.

All these issues goes down to :
1) you are changing domain name
2) you are as well changing the phpBB directory (from forums to forum)
3) You want to redirect everything properly.

To do so, you thus need to redirect the old domain to the new one and the old phpBB dir to the new one.

Adding a question mark in the reg ex as SEO told you will allow both the old and the new path to match the proper script, letting the zero duplicate doing it's job.

But you could imagine to keep forums/ as the phpBB dir in the new domain to make things a little easier.

About phpBB itself, the only install that matters is the one on the new domain, the real one. The other domain does only need to be redirected, not to actually host a forum.

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Thank you for your reply.

Are my .htaccess and robots.txt files correct? I pasted them above and I am still waiting for your answer about that.

My robots.txt file in the new domain prevented Google from browsing so many forum pages that they should browse. That is why I really want to know if my files, both the .htaccess and the robots.txt look correct to you. Please let me know.

So it looks like you're really close to success here : http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/topic2639.html

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:09:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

You just miss the www prefix in the first redirect (this one should be in the .htaccess).

So, when following the link, you be redirected twice in the end : http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:11:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Location: http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

To end up on the final url : -http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html

It's really better if you can fix this, should be in your .htaccess.

About the robots.txt, you should now only consider the new domain and path, and thus use forum/ instead of forums/.

Since your urls are rewritten and cached in Google, you can implement it right now.

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Thanks for your reply. I need your help in this pm.

dcz wrote:So it looks like you're really close to success here : http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums/topic2639.html

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:09:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

You just miss the www prefix in the first redirect (this one should be in the .htaccess).

So, when following the link, you be redirected twice in the end : http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:11:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Location: http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

To end up on the final url : -http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forum/topic2639.html

It's really better if you can fix this, should be in your .htaccess.

Your sentence, "You just miss the www prefix in the first redirect (this one should be in the .htaccess)" indicated to me that you meant the .htaccess file in my old domain treatwidevision.us at the old web host. Correct?

Question 1:
What do I need to fix in the .htaccess file in the old domain treatwidevision.us at the old web host? I already pasted my .htaccess file in the old domain above (May 26 post), but I'll paste it again below for your convenience. Here is my .htaccess file in the old domain treatwidevision.us at the old web host:

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^treatwidevision\.us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.treatwidevision.us/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forums?/index\.html$ /forums/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forums/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums?/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums?/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^forums?/rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forums?/forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^forums?/sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forums/sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^forums?/urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /forums/urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################

Could you please show me what and where exactly I need to fix?

dcz wrote:About the robots.txt, you should now only consider the new domain and path, and thus use forum/ instead of forums/.

Since your urls are rewritten and cached in Google, you can implement it right now.

++

Here is my robots.txt in the new domain tvseriesmusic.com in the new web host:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/viewtopic.php
Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php
Disallow: /forum/index.php?
Disallow: /forum/posting.php
Disallow: /forum/groupcp.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/privmsg.php
Disallow: /forum/post
Disallow: /forum/member
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forum/faq.php

Question 2:
Could you please let me know did I do my robots.txt in the new domain tvseriesmusic.com correctly?

Thanks.

treatmekindly wrote:Your sentence, "You just miss the www prefix in the first redirect (this one should be in the .htaccess)" indicated to me that you meant the .htaccess file in my old domain treatwidevision.us at the old web host. Correct?

If you are redirecting the old domains to the new one from there yes.

You should only keep this in the old domain's .htaccess :

Code: Select all

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tvseriesmusic\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]


The old code was in deed not redirecting anything (only request to http://treatwidevision.us actually. I assume the zero dupe did the job, but with phpbb server domain set as tvseriesmusic.com (without the www) in the old forum. With that code above you should not need the old forum install anymore, since all request would be redirected to the new domain (and host) in all cases.

By the way, it's the same www prefix redirection to implement in the new domain, and it would as well be enough for if you'd set the old domain's dns to match the new host.

treatmekindly wrote:Question 2:
Could you please let me know did I do my robots.txt in the new domain tvseriesmusic.com correctly?

Thanks.

Yes it is correct and should be uploaded in the domain's root

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Thanks for your reply above. Please read this particular message closely. I repeated things, but my questions were not addressed fully. Something was still missing.

As I explained on May 26, I host many files at treatwidevision.us at the old web host so I can't set the DNS as the new host otherwise, I will lose all files and statistics of all sites still hosted by the old domain at the old web host. I already asked the old web host about that. I must put treatwidevision.us at the old web host in order to keep all of those files and statistics. I use the new host to host the forum because of its fast server speed and the old host for space and bandwidth for the files and sites at the old domain treatwidevision.us. The new web host doesn't have enough space or bandwidth for me to host everything. If I moved the old domain treatwidevision.us to the new web host by changing the DNS to match the new web host and using the "domain add on" function inside the control panel of the new web host, I will also have to buy a third domain, connect it to the old web host, and then transfer all files that are currently at the old domain treatwidevision.us to the third domain. I really don't want to do this at all because not only it's very time consuming, it costs me more money. Thus, I decided to leave treatwidevision.us the way it is at the old web host to keep all of my files and site statistics at the old web host intact while I can't backup anything right now. I don't just have a forum to take care of at the new domain tvseriesmusic.com, I have many other sites and files inside treatwidevision.us to take care of as well.

dcz wrote:I assume the zero dupe did the job, but with phpbb server domain set as tvseriesmusic.com (without the www) in the old forum.

As I already mentioned in my May 26 post this (pasting),
I redirected from http://www.treatwidevision.us/forums to http://tvseriesmusic.com/forum exactly like this using "Redirect URL" in my old web host. Please take a look at this screen capture to see if I redirect the forum at its old URL to its new URL correctly.

So, do I still follow the exact instructions you posted on June 4 without changing anything in them?

I added the whole content to my current .htaccess file at the root of the old domain treatwidevision.us hosted by the old web host,

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tvseriesmusic\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

but my other sites hosted by treatwidevision.us no longer work!
These URLs
http://www.treatwidevision.us/gigilai.htm
http://www.treatwidevision.us/swj.htm
http://www.treatwidevision.us/vickiz.htm
and many others didn't work at the old URLs after I pasted the code you suggested into my .htaccess at the old domain treatwidevision.us at the old web host!

I want to keep those sites at those URLs with treatwidevision.us in them because many sites link my sites using those old URLs. Please reread my first paragraph at the beginning of this message for the other reasons why I want to keep the old URLs working at the old web host and not the new web host. So, how do I fix the .htaccess at the root of the old and new web host now after knowing my situation?
[I already put back my old .htaccess file in the old host which is different from the few lines I just pasted in this post while waiting for solutions from you.] There must be a solution out there for my needs.

Request please:
Why don't you paste the exact whole content that I have to put into my .htaccess at the old domain treatwidevision.us hosted by the old web host? I will just copy and paste and things will be correct.


Here is the whole content of the .htaccess at the root of the new domain tvseriesmusic.com hosted by the new web host:

# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.tvseriesmusic\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
# RewriteRule ^forums?/index\.html$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]+/([^/]+\.html)$ /forum/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums?/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums?/topic([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums?/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums?/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################


#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^forums?/rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forums?/forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^forums?/sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^forums?/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^forums?/.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /forum/sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^forums?/urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /forum/urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES #
#########################################################

Is my current .htaccess files in my New domain tvseriesmusic.com hosted by the new web host correct?


As I mentioned in my May 26 post above, I haven't installed the Zero Duplicate here yet. I asked several times if I needed to install it, but no one has answered it yet. I don't know what to do about it. Could you please advise on this? Do I need to install the Zero Duplicate and install it after which step?
However, I already installed the mixed mod rewrite and the Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps and RSS v1.2.0RC4 on the forum way before moving it to the new domain tvseriesmusic.com at the new web host.

This thing really drives me nut at the end of the academic quarter. I don't get the solution that I need but I really hope I will.

treatmekindly wrote:I host many files at treatwidevision.us at the old web host so I can't set the DNS as the new host otherwise, I will lose all files and statistics of all sites still hosted by the old domain at the old web host. I already asked the old web host about that. I must put treatwidevision.us at the old web host in order to keep all of those files and statistics.

You're really choosing the hard way, so you really need to deal with one problem at a time, and I'm not sure it will be doable to keep your old domain accessible and to redirect it to the new one, unless you can at least redirect all the old forum/ dir.

Code: Select all

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.treatwidevision\.us/forum [NC] [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^treatwidevision\.us/forum [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.tvseriesmusic.com/forums/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

Could do it in the old web space.