I have changed the domain of my forum but links in topics point to the old one

[ddabcd277]

Hello,

I am using SMF 1.1.14. Recently I have changed the domain of my forum. Everything went well. Unfortunately, the links given it the topics still point to the old one. Very annoying thing. I want to point to the new one. Hope I explain the problem brief and clear. Here an example. Let say may old domain was:

hxxp://www.myforum.com

and the new one is

hxxp://www.myforum.org

The problem is that the links given in the posts still point to hxxp://www.myforum.com and that domain is closed and points to dead end. Of course I can correct the links manually one by one in every post but there are quite a lot of them. Should be an easier way. Will appreciate an advice on how to decrease my work and automatic things?

Thanks for any help and suggestion,

[a10]

I will come in the same situation in a short while. Was thinking of doing this:
download (export) the smf_messages table, do a Notepad++ find\replace job, then upload (import) the fixed table. The whole process will take just a few minutes even with 1000's of links to fix (mostly table download\upload time). Should work? or any other way of doing it?

[Tony Reid]

Use the repair settings tool to change the domain.

http://download.simplemachines.org/?tools

But you might need to create some kind of redirect for links in posts.

[ddabcd277]

Thanks. Will try your suggestions. 

[YogiBear]

Not sure if this is practical but can anyone confirm whether setting up a re-direction in the cpanel area could also solve this?