how to redirect old vb urls to new ones?

[dinodonk]

I heard this can be done using mod redirect.. can anyone help me to make .htaccess to redirect old vb urls?

TIA

[ThorstenE]

don't know the exact syntax for VBs URLs but it should be possible.

Example for phpBB may help you.

[Sarge]

Hello there, have you managed to find a solution?

This may also help: [htaccess redirect] old phpbb url > new smf url

[Sincere]

thank you TE and Sarge.

but is really the smf community unable to write a proper .htaccess file ?

this topic has been Read 3474 times. Is this an indication to anyone in the dev team?

at least let us write a few rules to simply redirect links to topics and messages (threads and posts)

[Sincere]

come on guys.

Google would seriously punish our site for thousands of broken links...

[Sincere]

can we get some help on this please ?

[Kill Em All]

Is this issue solved or do you still require assistance?

Sorry for the wait by the way.

[Sincere]

Is this issue solved or do you still require assistance?

Sorry for the wait by the way.

no , it is not solved.

can you help ?

[ThorstenE]

Sincere, can you post some examples for old vBulletin ULRs? I believe we can fix it but I don't know how the old URLs look ..

[Sincere]

Sincere, can you post some examples for old vBulletin ULRs? I believe we can fix it but I don't know how the old URLs look ..

hello TE

here are a few examples:

link to topic

http://yourdomain.com/vb/showthread.php?t=100210146

or  with parameters

http://yourdomain.com/vb/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=100210557


link to post


http://yourdomain.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1060988333&postcount=1

or

http://yourdomain.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1060990256#post1060990256

link to user profile

http://yourdomain.com/vb/member.php?u=387925


link to a forum

http://yourdomain.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=330


or

http://yourdomain.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=324

[ThorstenE]

ok thanks.. please have a little patience, I'll check this ASAP..

[Sincere]

ok thanks.. please have a little patience, I'll check this ASAP..

no problem. I am waiting. please let me know .

[ThorstenE]

I've checked it and it's impossible via .htaccess only. At least for the messages we need to make a database query for the topic id (see below).

Attached is a set of php files (names are the same as the former vbulletin files). These files will redirect old URLs to the new forum URL. You have to edit the config.php and add your SMF forum location.

I'll also write the missing showpost.php but I need to know the SMF version. Direct URLs to messages aren't supported by SMF, we need at least the topic id from the SMF database (column names are different in SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0, therefore I need your SMF version number).

[Sincere]

I've checked it and it's impossible via .htaccess only. At least for the messages we need to make a database query for the topic id (see below).

Attached is a set of php files (names are the same as the former vbulletin files). These files will redirect old URLs to the new forum URL. You have to edit the config.php and add your SMF forum location.

I'll also write the missing showpost.php but I need to know the SMF version. Direct URLs to messages aren't supported by SMF, we need at least the topic id from the SMF database (column names are different in SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0, therefore I need your SMF version number).

thank you. it is smf1.1.11

[ThorstenE]

sorry for my late reply (have been busy with reallife stuff).. simply download the vbr.zip attachment, unzip that file and edit config.php with a text-editor.. then upload all files to your former vbulletin folder..

[Sincere]

sorry for my late reply (have been busy with reallife stuff).. simply download the vbr.zip attachment, unzip that file and edit config.php with a text-editor.. then upload all files to your former vbulletin folder..

thank you very much.
I definitely would need this package when converting my other forums.

[Antes]

edit no longer needed

[alimrb]

VB v4.1.2

URL Sample
hxxps://xxxxx.com/forums/showthread.php?14301

How can i change the .htaccess to get this:

hxxps://xxxxx.com/forums/index.php?topic=14301

[Antes]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^showthread.php?=([0-9]*) index.php?topic=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^forumdisplay.php?=([0-9]*) index.php?board=$1 [R=301,L]

[alimrb]

there is not "t=" :

hxxps://xxxxx.com/forums/showthread.php?14301

and with:
RewriteRule ^showthread.php?([0-9]*) index.php?topic=$1 [R=301,L]

i get:

hxxps://xxxxx.com/index.php?topic=

not:
/index.php?topic=14301