Forum Moderators: phranque
I want to take a forum thats in the site root and move it to a subdirectory called forums.
The problem is the variables. I have searched high and low and haven't found anything. I can't be the only one who at some point hasn't decided they need to move there forums to another directory and want to do a 301 redirect so search engines pickup on the change? I assume it's probably my keyword choices for searching.
I have found walk throughs for pointing /index.php to /forums/index.php but that strips every thing past the "?" off.
I've found walk throughs for taking /index.php?variables to search engine friendly urls i.e. /variable1/variable2/ and so forth but thats not what I want.
I simply need to take and existing url
www.somedomain.com/index.php?act=announce&f=8&id=7
to
www.somedomain.com/forums/index.php?act=announce&f=8&id=7
with the variables intact. Not Adding any, not removing any.
If anyone could please point me to a walk through that shows this or give me some idea of where to look and don't bother with the RTFM comments I have and haven't been able to figure it out. I just need the syntax or example of a mod_rewrite directive that keeps the variables in a url.
I feel like such and idiot. I so over thought this issue that I couldn't see the answer staring me in the face.
"An expert is one who recognizes a mistake... when he/she makes it again."
Jim
By default I now use RewriteRule rather than Redirect for almost everything. I find the granularity of control much more useful.
