[extremejacob]

I tried looking around for a solution, but I only found enough info to mess my system up slightly. I think I am missing one crucial part of the solution.

I have installed bbpress as

website.com/forum

with a folder

public_html/forum

This works great.

However, I want to move this to a subdomain like this

forum.website.com/

If I make such a subdomain on my host, this will also use the public_html/forum folder. So far so good. (I used my host’s cpanel for this, no redirects.)

I went to Admin/General Settings and changed the URL from

website.com/forum/ to forum.website.com/

What happens then is the all the forum names come up and you can log in, but the posts are gone. Also, I get a lot of 500 errors.

I use name-based permalinks. (I suspect the problem may have something to do with this?)

I figure I need to do some 301 redirects in my .htaccess for whenever someone has ahref’ed a forum post, that’s no problem—I’ll do that later.

The problem right now is that I can’t see the forum posts anymore?!

It’s like some of the databases work but others (the post) do not.

Did I do something wrong or am I missing something?

[zaerl]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/moved-forum-to-subdomain-frontpage-loads-but-forum-doesnt-work-now

[extremejacob]

Thanks! I posted my solution under that topic.