Success Story from vBulletin 3.8 to SMF 2.0.15 with 670,000 Posts

Started by hydtah, January 13, 2019, 09:52:26 AM

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hydtah

Hi all,

After several months of testing, We've just successfully migrated from Vbulletin 3.8 (with latin1 charset & arabic language )  to  SMF 2.0.15 (UTF8 charset )

Stats of my forum:
Members:   250,000
Posts : 670,000
Topics: 90,000

To move from dedicated server for the vbulletin forum to VPS server for the SMF forum + reduce the size of database (than reduce the price of the server from 37 $  to 9 $  8)  ), I had to empty up some of tables like : customavatar; customprofilepic; picture; sigpic; socialgroupicon; socialgrouppicture; tag; reputation; tagsearch; humanverify; externalcache; visitormessage ; visitormessage_hash


To redirect all my vbulletin forum links to the new of SMF, I used this file .htaccess form https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=554897.0  with some changes :


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Redirect /index.htm /smf_forum/

# SMF rewrites for vBulletin after vBSEO removed (including forum directory)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)&page=[0-9]+&p=([0-9]+)#[0-9]+(.*)?/?$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)&page=[0-9]+&p=([0-9]+)(.*)?/?$
RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?showthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?topic=%1.msg%2#msg%2 [NE,L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)&page=[0-9]+(.*)?/?$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)(.*)?/?$
RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?showthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?topic=%1.0 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^f=([0-9]+)&page=[0-9]+(.*)?/?$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^f=([0-9]+)(.*)?/?$
RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?forumdisplay.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?board=%1.0 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^do=newthread.f=([0-9]+)(.*)?/?$
RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?newthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?board=%1.0 [L,R=301]


# SMF rewrite for cms author
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^author/([0-9]+)-.*/?$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^r=author/([0-9]+)-.*/?$
RewriteRule ^cms/list.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?action=profile;u=%1? [L,R=301]

# SMF rewrite for calendar
RewriteRule ^calendar\.php /smf_forum/index.php?action=calendar? [L,R=301]

# Rewrite all non-existent directories and folders to /smf_forum/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /smf_forum/index.php? [QSD,L,R=301]

Thanks to all.

Good luck to all

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hydtah

it's an honor to join this big community .

thanks for all the things you do...

GL700Wing

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Massl

Hi, are you sure that this is correct?
RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?showthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?topic=%1.msg%2#msg%2 [L,R=301]

I'm testing and I get this address
index.php?topic=1.msg2%23msg2

# is converted to %23 and links aren't valid.

Massl

OK fixed, after read this I understood that is missing NE

RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?showthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?topic=%1.msg%2#msg%2 [NE,L,R=301]

Change it as soon as you can!

hydtah

Quote from: _max_ on January 20, 2019, 12:08:35 PM
OK fixed, after read hxxp:httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/rewrite/flags.html [nonactive]I understood that is missing NE

RewriteRule ^(forum)?/?showthread.php$ /smf_forum/index.php?topic=%1.msg%2#msg%2 [NE,L,R=301]

Change it as soon as you can!

Thank you very much...

MartyHunter

I have just converted from VBulletin 3.8.5 (using convertor vbulletin37), I went to SMF v2.0 and then v2.1. I hadn't thought about redirecting old VB URLs until reading this thread. Is it too late? If not, I'd be really grateful if someone could advise how I go about doing so.
thanks

Steve

Quote from: MartyHunter on June 20, 2023, 08:46:03 PMI hadn't thought about redirecting old VB URLs until reading this thread. Is it too late? If not, I'd be really grateful if someone could advise how I go about doing so

For anyone about to answer, this question has it already been asked in the relevant support board. - https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=586252.msg4154695#msg4154695

@MartyHunter - please don't crosspost. It just causes confusion. Thanks.
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MartyHunter

Quote from: Steve on June 21, 2023, 03:04:07 PM@MartyHunter - please don't crosspost. It just causes confusion. Thanks.

Sorry Steve. I forgot I had posted it there (and nobody has spotted it there either!). I will raise it again over there once the current issue is dealt with. Apologies again.

Steve

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