So, with my new homepage / portal almost ready, I have a question

So, with my new homepage / portal almost ready, I have a question about how to make it my index.html page.

Right now I'm running vBadvanced and that is my 'home page'. My WordPress is sitting at a subdomain as I test things out.

I would imagine that I simply inactivate the vBadvanced in my vB admincp, but what is the best way to have my Wordpress display once it's ready to go? And, where would it "sit" as far as the directories go?

Any advice would be appreciated

 

Personally I would have your wordpress at waltdisneyboards.com and the forums in /forum(s)/ The way you currently have it could mean quite a bit of work with relocating to /forum(s)/. If possible and if you dont mind you could have them like your current setup:

/forums.php for the board and your wordpress index as index.php. Im not sure if they can reside in the same directories or not but I think that would be most easy.

 

If I changed the forum to within /forums, wouldn't that hurt me on Google/SEO for moving or changing the url?

 

No, you would simply setup a 301 Redirect.

Google it or ask your hosts support as i don't exactly know how to set it up.

 

So, I'd setup a 301 redirect on my current waltdisneyboards.com/forums.php to redirect to waltdisneyboards.com/forums/forums.php, is that right?

 

Yes, but you don't need to so why do it.

Wordpress doesn't have any conflicting file names with vBulletin so it can exisit in your site root along with your forums, though you may not be able to use their friendly URL's, but since you don't have vBSEO (or another URL reqritting mod) to rewrite forum URL's that's a non-issue really.

Simply rename your current index.php file to like index_old.php

Login to wordpress and change all the settings that point to subdomain.domain.com to just where WP will be installed.

Then move all the wordpress files right to your site root

prosper

 

Dave, thanks.

But, I do have vBSEO installed. Would that cause an issue? How would I work around that one?

 

Strange your vBACMPS module didn't rewrite the links in vBSEO format to link to them :odd:

But any way, since you'll probably want to make use of the wordpress friendly URL's, there are only two possible combinations to try

Take your Wordpress .htaccess and add it the current .htaccess file BEFORE all the vBSEO stuff.

Browse around and see if things work if it does then jackpot. If it doesn't try to add the Wordpress .htaccess stuff, AFTER the vBSEO .htaccess stuff.

If that doesn't work, then there is probably a small .htaccess problem that vBSEO should have a fix for some where.

If you want, post your Wordpress .htaccess and your vBSEO .htaccess and I'll help you merge them together.

 

Ask over at VBSEO? Go to their helpesk im sure they will help you out more then we can..

 

Thanks guys, I'll ask for more help when I'm closer to moving it next week.