Thanks Jake.
A while after posting my question I got it working with the rule:
location ~ /old_dir{
rewrite ^/old_dir/(.*)$ /new_dir/$1 permanent;
}
However, that only worked for threads, but not for forums. When I try a forum page, the redirect script "forumdisplay.php" gets downloaded...
After moving from vB4 and changing old URLs are not working when I change forum directory. If I keep old forum directory they redirect just fine. Example:
http://www.mysite.com/new_dir/showthread.php?t=xxx
The above linke get redirected just fine to:
http://www.mysite.com/new_dir/threads/xxx/...
I enabled the "Create Pages for Categories" option, but the category links when hovering on them while I'm on forum home are still romanized, is that a normal behavior or a bug?
When I click on them a new page opens and the category title part in the URL bar changes to Arabic characters as it...
I'm doing some tests of importing from a VB4 forum that uses Arabic language, but I'm having a small problem:
After importing I noticed that category URLs contain romanized category titles, and they look really weird.
Is there a way to disable category links romanization when importing (or at...
Hi Nasr,
It has been really long time, but I'm back now (I hope, at least ;)).
Anyway, thanks for the answer. I think I need to do some testing and see how it goes. :)
Hi Jack,
Thanks for this importer, it seems great.
Anyway, I seriously am thinking about importing my vB4 forum to XF, and I have a question:
Is this importer able to convert all of my data from Arabic to UTF-8?