You should do it via the hosting cPanel. You should make a subdomain name forum.yoursite.com and have the forum folder being redirected to yoursite/forum
Ok, nice idea...but then won't the forum url simply change upon redirect to be filekings.org/forums...
I more want forums that have the "forums.filekings.org" infront of every url...such as these ones, only replace community with forums, and mybboard.net with filekings.org
Not really! The admin of my old host did this kind of thing for me. The content of the forum folder could be accessed via site/forum but also via forum.site. I just changed the site url for site.com to forum.site.com and it worked. The only problem was that google considered those new pages as duplicate content
Flaw Wrote:The only problem was that google considered those new pages as duplicate content
well that problem can be very problematic if you plan to get high page rank
dvb Wrote:Flaw Wrote:The only problem was that google considered those new pages as duplicate content
well that problem can be very problematic if you plan to get high page rank
You should be able to setup a .htaccess file to do a URL rewrite so that any domain.com/forum URL goes to forum.domain.com. That should stop spiders picking up the duplicate content.
Go on...You have me interested now MrDoom
So create a new subdomain for the forums using the same FTP account, then write *Somehow* the htaccess file to rewrite the url's...
Sounds almost not worth it...Doing the new subdomain is no issue...its my host lol, the htaccess sounds a bit tricky
Not really the htaccess is rather easy. And what you want to do is use 301 redirects that way the search engines crawl your new pages but dont flag you for duplicate content. Here is an example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/(.*)$ http://forum.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That will send everything to the new url. Pretty simple.
Nullivex Wrote:RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/(.*)$ http://forum.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That will send everything to the new url. Pretty simple.
but this will also redirect all pages outside the forums, no?
Yeah, that probably should be:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/forum/(.*)$ http://forum.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]