changing a forum to a new url

[nivaskapil]

hi,
Apologize me if this has been addressed before..looked through the site but could not get the answer..

I've an ipvision board forum in a subdirectory of a domain..
say for example..

[domain.com...]

and i want to change the forum to a new subdomain name [boards.newdomain.com...]

I've created a subdomain in the new domain,pointing its folder to the same folder of [domain.com...]

and i edited the .htaccess file with the things i learned to

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)http://boards.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

so,when i type in [boards.newdomain.com...] it opens the home page of the forum..

But if i check the user status or nay messages..

the url is still the same

[domain.com...]

Is there a way to change this completely,so that all the pages will be like

[boards.newdomain.com...]
or the same...

lil bit indepth help is greatly appreciated.....

P.S: If the old domain is not renewed,then too the forum must exist in the new name..

Nivas K

[jdMorgan]

I suspect you need to look into the 'setup' or configuration options for the forum software installation. Alternatively, you could edit the forum's source code to put the correct URLs on the pages. And this is required if you actually want to change those URLs -- The URLs are *defined* by the links on Web pages, and after a 'wrong' URL is requested from your server, it is too late for any server-side redirect to 'fix' it.

Jim