Hello i'm using gearhost.com as my webhost providor, and i wanted to poing my forum insted of
http://www.scooter-posse.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi, to forums.scooter-posse.com,
i know i have subdomains on gearhost but it seems that i can only redirect to directorries and not to spacific file.
do you know how it can be done?

In the folder /cgi-bin, write a quick cgi file that outputs a header that redirects the location to ultimatebb.cgi. Then map the subdomain to cgi-bin.

but i'm not sure how to do that, can you explain please.

Use PHP,

Create the subdomain "forum"
Open Notepad
type

<?

header("Location: FORUMURL");
exit;

?>

Save the file as index.php

upload the file into the forum folder of your website.

And that all should work :]

I'm not sure that you can use PHP in cgi-bin, can you?

The subdomain isn't located in the CGI-Bin, the folder "forum" which is the subdomain is located in the main part of the website.


forum.overskilled.com = www.overskilled.com/forum

Insert the script into that directory and it will forward to: www.overskilled.com/cgi-bin/board

Yeah you can, thanks alot for your help! :)