XF 1.2 Migrating from vb3.8.7 + vbseo - Thread Redirection Issue

[Neutral Singh]

Finally taking a plunge... vBulletin Forum is installed at root, http://www.sikhphilosophy.net

What i have done so far...

1. I installed xenforo 1.2.1 in a directory on the root and imported data from vB with no issues and moved the new forum to the root.

2. Downloaded the vbseo-all.xml and generated the rewrite rules from http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/ for the .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/([\d]+)-.+-([\d]+).html showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule [^/]+/([\d]+)-.+.html showthread.php?t=$1 [NC,L]

3. Downloaded and uploaded Version 6 of the redirection files at the following link:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.5030/

4. Edited the 301config.php and put the following:

$fileDir = '/home/******/public_html';

5. The forum url redirection seems to working fine. eg.

Redirect 301 /sikh-sikhi-sikhism http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/forums/sikh-sikhi-sikhism

6. Problem: My typical thread url looks like this:

http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/movies-and-cinema/41303-ashdocs-movie-review-the-conjuring.html

And it's simply not working! What am i doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Neutral Singh]

@Jake Bunce @Brogan

Just found another of the required url redirections! This is not vbseo but a core vbulletin url... This is a typical example with many threads like in this pattern.

Old url: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=95
New url: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/95-who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.html

Thank you so much!

 

[Mike]

You should use the redirection scripts in the resources for that.

 

[Neutral Singh]

I have already done like stated in this thread: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

but typically Old url: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=95 is not redirecting to:

New url: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/threads/who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.95/


Old vb forum is still active here: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/vb/

If we take above vb thread as an example:

Old url: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/vb/showthread.php?t=95 does redirect correctly to vbseo'ed thread:

http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/vb/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/95-who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.html

What i want is to:

Redirect: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/vb/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/95-who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.html

To: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/95-who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.html

Which eventually should redirect to:

http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/threads/who-is-a-sikh-good-discussion.95/

LOL!

 

[Mike]

I'm confused as to what the "real" old URL is -- that's what we should be redirecting. The showthread.php redirection scripts should be put in that directory.

Note that there is no depending on any of the old files or the old .htaccess. If you have an SEO tool that changed the URL, you just need to have it redirect the URLs that you want to forward to the original URLs (showthread.php, etc).

As the example showthread.php is just returning a blank page, it seems to me that there may be a parse error in the 301config.php file. I would reupload the default version of the redirection scripts to try to take that out as a variable. It should redirect in all cases; if the config isn't set properly, it will redirect to the main page.