Forum URL Change Checklist

[OrahChris]

I plan to move a forum on to a subdomain from a sub folder. There used to be a checklist somewhere if I recall correctly, but I can't seem to locate it. I'm using the latest version of IPB and while migrating the forum to the new domain and changing some configuration options is fairly straight forward, I'd image this will result in broken links

 

1. What SQL command should I run to update any links that may not have updated

2. What's the best way to handle 301's after the migration

3. Anything else that may be useful

Thanks so much

[JohnCourt]

I did this too Chris, it was pretty painless as far as all the internal links, they were fine, but the biggest hit we took were all the inbound links we had from other sites, we had quite a few outside sites that linked up to our discussions and special promotions and events, and newsletters, but they all went by by. I do not know where the checklist is, but think it through. It was over a year ago we made the domain change and we are still contacting outside sites and informing them of the proper link up to an article or discussion or event.

If I may ask, what is the reason you are moving to a sub folder?

[OrahChris]

1 hour ago, Courtland said:

I did this too Chris, it was pretty painless as far as all the internal links, they were fine, but the biggest hit we took were all the inbound links we had from other sites, we had quite a few outside sites that linked up to our discussions and special promotions and events, and newsletters, but they all went by by. I do not know where the checklist is, but think it through. It was over a year ago we made the domain change and we are still contacting outside sites and informing them of the proper link up to an article or discussion or event.

If I may ask, what is the reason you are moving to a sub folder?

This is actually at the request of a new owner. It's part of a larger project, but they have their reasons. (part of it has to do with the fact they plan to run multiple forums in different languages, china. us., they essentially want this forum run as it's own entity. 

I plan to run the following in htaccess: 

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

That should, I believe, redirect all old links to the new location without anything breaking. (But there are a lot of IPB experts here that may have better input) 

 

EDIT: By the way, something similar to the above should help resolve some of your issues on your site. Even if it's been a year!

[JohnCourt]

On 1/17/2016 at 10:48 AM, chrisjmc2006 said:

EDIT: By the way, something similar to the above should help resolve some of your issues on your site. Even if it's been a year!

Which issue! I have many. But have you seen an explicit issue?