Movinf forum from folder to root?
 

Hello,

I am looking at moving my current BV4 with CMS install from ".com/forum/" to just ".com." I have HTML pages now that I currently incorperate into the site that I have added to the CMS to include an index page.

All of the html pages will be deleted once the move is done. I know I will take a huge hit in search engines for the short term and I am going to do permanent redirects to the popular html pages now on CMS.

I do have some reservations and some questions before I do this.

• Is it just as simple as editing the path in config.php? If so I think the only one that has to really change is

Code:
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';

• I believe the only other things are forum URL in admin/site name?

• Does there need to be a redirect from index.htm to the forum front page or will it default to it once the index.htm page is removed?

Again, I am pretty leery about the move. I think long term it makes the most sense in my case so assuming the above is as easy at it sounds I am going to do it. Any tips, suggestions, pitfalls to worry about?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.