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Re: Redirecting YaBB
Reply #2 - Dec 20th, 2014 at 3:29pm
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Red Barchetta wrote on Dec 20th, 2014 at 4:35am:
Does the .httaccess redirect method support a message? 
                   

No - it just sends the browser to the new place with '301' (permanently moved) flag.

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RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^testbed\.dandello\.net$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.yabbforumsoftware\.com" [R=301,L] 


The above is from the redirect from a subdomain on dandello.net to here when I moved this site to its domain.
Also see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
  

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Re: Redirecting YaBB
Reply #1 - Dec 20th, 2014 at 4:35am
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Thanks for the help with this. I needed it as I had moved my YaBB Forum to a new folder on my server. I had changed the Paths.pl so after hitting the old folder it would change to the new one, but I still see I have more entry page hits starting on the old folder than directly going to the new one. This will create a 5 second pause and inform them of the new URL, and then redirect them there.

Does the .httaccess redirect method support a message?
  

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Redirecting YaBB
Dec 20th, 2014 at 1:30am
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You've moved your forum and can't use a server (.htaccess) redirect.

Replace the contents of your old YaBB.pl file with:
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#!/usr/bin/perl --
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" or die 'cannot print line1';
print qq~
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-us">
<head>
    <title>YaBB Webmaster redirect</title>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl" />
  </head>
  <body style="background-color:#ffffff">
    <p style="text-align:center">The content you are looking for has moved. You will be redirected to the new location automatically in 5 seconds. Please bookmark the correct page at <a href="http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl">http://mynewyabb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl</a>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>~ or die 'cannot print line2';  



Since it's absolutely basic html you can style it however you want. It will automatically redirect to the new address. (Obviously you should point it to your new forum.)
  

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