subdomain redirect

[jobe]

Hi - have just converted my phpBB forum to smf - all went fine. The original & the new were/are in the subdomain - http://forum.mysite.com

Now I have lots of links on my site directed to the phpBB installation. How might I redirect eg:

http://forum.mysite.com/viewtopic.php?t=1191

to

http://forum.mysite.com

Just so that they end up on the index page of the new forum. They will have to find their way from there.

Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks.

[AndrewT]

If SMF does not have a viewtopic.php then I would simply create one that redirects to the index.php. Otherwise a find/replace throughout your site might not be a bad idea either.

[jobe]

Thanks Andrew.

You say 'If SMF does not have a viewtopic.php then I would simply create one that redirects to the index.php' but how would you do that?

In the redirect section of cpanel - redirects are from http://mysite.com - not from the subdomain - http://forum.mysite.com

Have tried with mysite/forum/viewtopic.php but doesn't seem to work.

[AndrewT]

Create a viewtopic.php file with the following code in it:

<?PHP
header ("Location: http://forum.mysite.com");
?>

[jobe]

Thanks Andrew.
Works fine for viewtopic.php but not for the

http://forum.mysite.com/viewtopic.php?t=1191

Strange as the error says 'The requested URL /viewtopic.php was not found on this server.'

[AndrewT]

I'm not quite sure I understand. Creating a viewtopic.php script with that code will redirect anything that is sent to the viewtopic.php script, including viewtopic.php?t=1191. It completely ignores the thread ID and any GET/POST values that might be sent.

[jobe]

Sorry Andrew - I wasn't putting the viewtopic.php in the forum folder.

Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

[AndrewT]

No problem at all.

[Pedja]

Cjeck this out: http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...topic=120863.0
I posted set of php scripts that reroute requests in phpbb syntax to smf.

[jobe]

Thank you very much for the link.
SMF really is excellent so far - much better than phpbb in all aspects. For free forums, highly recommended.