Redirecting

[jakec]

Ok, a question about redirecting. I've finally got my forums ready to put on out to the public. I would now like to redirect all traffic from homebuiltairplanes.com to homebuiltairplanes.com/forums. It seems like it would be done in the redirects portion of cpanel. I gave it a try and it doesn't seem to work for me. Little help please? Thanks in advance.

JakeC

[jakec]

Never mind. I got it. :rolleyes:

JakeC

[jakec]

Well, I thought I had it. I guess not. Anyway, I guess I do need the help. Thanks.

JakeC

[admin]

This is in fact done with a redirect. Try redirecting index.html to http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/

Even if index.html doesn't exist...try it anyway.

[Afkamm]

Jakec, have you thought of using a sub-domain name? Might look nicer for you.

eg. http://forums.homebuiltairplanes.com

Do a search in here, should turn up a few posts explaining them.


Marc :-)

[jakec]

Well, I was leaving out the pesky www before the domain name. I wrongly assumed that because the first URL did not use it that I should not use it on the destination URL. :rolleyes: Thanks a bunch. Is there an advantage to using sub-domains? I'll look here in the forums. Thanks.

JakeC

[Gnomercy]

There's not really an "advantage" to using a subdomain, at least not that I could ever tell. forums.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com/forums do the same thing. I've never actually asked around to see why people use them (subdomains, that is) but I presume it's either because end users are at least moderately incapable of remembering which slash to use in the URL, subdomains are just prettier or more clean looking, or an alien race has come to earth to possess the land and they're starting with the way we handle the internet (in this case, I'm guessing their leader is Al Gore).

[Rodzilla]

For redirecting, I just use a simple PHP file:


<?
header("Location: http://www.domain.com/new/location");
?>


Dump that as index.php into the directory and change the URL to redirect to.