Moved forum from a subdirectory to root, how to save indexed links?

[saurabh1938]

Hi All,

Due to various reasons, I needed to move my forum from www.site.com/gt to root www.site.com  but now the issue is all my links are indexed and also there are many other back links from other sites. I want to preserve and redirect all those links. I want to redirect any url www.site.com/gt/somepathforcontent to www.site.com/somepathforcontent

please help before I start losing my indexed pages.

[margarett]

Are you using Pretty URLs?

If not, it should be possible to set a .htaccess permanent redirect (although I honestly don't know how to do it) so that everything that pops from site.com/gt/whatever is forwarded to site.com/whatever
This should prevent your indexed content from being lost, while new content will be indexed normally.

With Pretty URLs I'm not sure if it's that simple.

[saurabh1938]

I am using pretty urls... And it adds lot of complications... But need to do this

[margarett]

Then you need to ask the MOD's support topic...

[saurabh1938]

Just help me how to configure or redirect this thing in htaccess even if i was not using pretty urls... I can give it a try

[margarett]

(...) set a .htaccess permanent redirect (although I honestly don't know how to do it)

You will need to wait for further advice...

[Kindred]

because pretyurls already changes the htaccess file - you are going to have to ask in the mod support topic since any advice that we give you for a standard change will not be relevant.

[saurabh1938]

I finally did this, and it is running beautifully with pretty urls using the following code :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^gt/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I started working on this in first week of january, wanted my site to be compatible with pretty urls and at the same time with 301 permanent redirect it took my lot of research and many changes in htaccess and inbetween posts and replies stopped working and also faced many issues but this was the last change I wanted to do to save my links and now got everything working now which I wanted to achieve.