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How would I remove this, so when people type "mydomain.com" they will be automatically transfered to my forums instead of this:

Add a redirect through your control panel or move the contents of the ./forum folder to the root directory.

(2009-05-20, 10:23 AM)Joshua Mayer Wrote: [ -> ]Add a redirect through your control panel or move the contents of the ./forum folder to the root directory.

Umm Im not sure what you mean by that (complete noob). I want my site to be automatically redirected from "mydomain.com" to "www.mydomain.com/forum".

Open .htaccess in your root directory and add this code:

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

Replace mydomain.com with your domain.

If there isn't a .htaccess, open a text editor, add that code and save it as .htaccess and upload it to your websites root directory.

(2009-05-20, 10:32 AM)Joshua Mayer Wrote: [ -> ]Open .htaccess in your root directory and add this code:

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

Replace mydomain.com with your domain.

If there isn't a .htaccess, open a text editor, add that code and save it as .htaccess and upload it to your websites root directory.

When I open .htmaccess it has this already in the document

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 211.

Am I suppose to replace that with what you said?

No, add the code that I gave you under that code that is in .htaccess now.

Your .htaccess should look like this when you add the code I gave you:

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 211.

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

(2009-05-20, 10:46 AM)Joshua Mayer Wrote: [ -> ]No, add the code that I gave you under that code that is in .htaccess now.

Your .htaccess should look like this when you add the code I gave you:

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 211.

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

I did that.

And when I got to "mydomain.com" I still get this:

Try this:

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

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 211.

Once again, change mydomain.com to your actual domain

(2009-05-20, 10:54 AM)Joshua Mayer Wrote: [ -> ]Try this:

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

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 211.

Once again, change mydomain.com to your actual domain

Still stuck at the .index page

What control panel do you use?? If it's cPanel, there's a section to setup redirects.