Steve8383
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I moved my vbulletin 3.8 to xf about a week ago. My vb install has vbseo installed. The vbseo setting is 1.
Spent four days on this and not getting very far, I've read pretty much every thread on the subject. I now feel like the proverbial monkey with a typewriter, trying everything at random until something works. Traffic is down by 50% likely due to links from search engines ending up at error pages.
This is what I have done:
- XF is installed in 'domain.com/forum' directory and working, which was the location of VB. I have moved VB to 'domain.com/oldforum'. The vb forum is working in it's new location as before.
- I downloaded the vb 3.x redirection scripts and uploaded them to the server. I wasn't sure if I should upload to the xf location 'forum' (because it was the old vb location) or the new vb location 'oldforum'. Tried both, but neither has worked. I referenced my archive import log in 301config.php as instructed.
- I used the tool at http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/ to generate extra htaccess code for vbseo and put this in my htaccess. Again, wasn't sure if this should be in the current xf htaccess (because it was the old vb location) or the new vb htaccess location. Tried both, but neither has worked.
- I manually added 301 redirects to the root htaccess to redirect forum home links i.e. http://domain.com/forum/forumname these are working fine.
I did make a previous forum post on this, but neglected to mention I was using vbseo, so the suggestion didn't work.
Completely out of ideas now, and desperate
Spent four days on this and not getting very far, I've read pretty much every thread on the subject. I now feel like the proverbial monkey with a typewriter, trying everything at random until something works. Traffic is down by 50% likely due to links from search engines ending up at error pages.
This is what I have done:
- XF is installed in 'domain.com/forum' directory and working, which was the location of VB. I have moved VB to 'domain.com/oldforum'. The vb forum is working in it's new location as before.
- I downloaded the vb 3.x redirection scripts and uploaded them to the server. I wasn't sure if I should upload to the xf location 'forum' (because it was the old vb location) or the new vb location 'oldforum'. Tried both, but neither has worked. I referenced my archive import log in 301config.php as instructed.
- I used the tool at http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/ to generate extra htaccess code for vbseo and put this in my htaccess. Again, wasn't sure if this should be in the current xf htaccess (because it was the old vb location) or the new vb htaccess location. Tried both, but neither has worked.
- I manually added 301 redirects to the root htaccess to redirect forum home links i.e. http://domain.com/forum/forumname these are working fine.
I did make a previous forum post on this, but neglected to mention I was using vbseo, so the suggestion didn't work.
Completely out of ideas now, and desperate
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