Cublox is back..

[Glen]

...but with a difference

Since theres a lot of webmaster forums out there, and i already had a pretty succesful community for a community script, i decided to turn cublox into a community admin resource

www.cublox.com/forums/

I probably need to do a 301 from cublox.com instead of the current 302 so the exact code to put in my htaccess would be nice, including the non-www to www maybe..i know paz is an expert

Maybe some people from here will sign up

i would also like to know marketing tips

Looking towards paz for the htaccess help ;)

[Paz]

Hi Glen!

Good to see you back online again! It's a nice clean looking forum. Some people try to start a forum with too many empty categories. I think it's best to add them as the forum fills up a bit.

Your 3 FAQ links don't work from this page:
http://www.cublox.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2629

Also I'm suprised that you didn't put your forum up on a sub-domain to get the extra backlink weight. Normally I don't like sub-domains, because it's like promoting a new site, but for a forum it works well I think.

Let me know exactly what you want to do the redirect for, eg directories, sub-domains etc. and I'll sort something out for you!

Cheers,
Paz.

[Glen]

I decided to keep it all together as i want the PR to flow better :p

And the main domain to take more search engine credit...

i want a 301 from www.cublox.com to www.cublox.com/forums/

and non-www to go to www. in the same htacccess

[Paz]

Hi Glen,

we'll probably have to get this working in stages, make sure you give me any precise error messages and the extract from you error log will help.

This htaccess is for when you have a default file in your root eg something.htm and you want to redirect to a sub folder called forums

DirectoryIndex something.htm
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cublox\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.cublox.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^something\.htm$ http://www.cublox.com/forums [R=301,L]

I've tested this and it works, but we need to be sure it doesn't screw up your forum! The redirect you've set up already isn't too hot because it doesn't work with http 1.0 bots. I think you'd better post your htaccess!

Cheers,
Paz.

[Glen]

Theres nothing in the root, i did a cpanel redirect just for the meantime

I will test that soon, thanks paz!

[Glen]

Works like a dream

Thank you sooo much..i will start adding articles to the site more so soon..would love comments on them, and thanks for signing up paz, it means a lot :)