XF 1.2 BROKEN LINK ISSUE

[ratrodbikes]

Back in November we migrated a large PHPBB forum over to Xenforo....loving it so far.

One issue that has plagued us since the migration is that links that people posted within posts on the old forum no longer work on the new forum. The link structure is very different. It makes me wonder if we did something wrong when we migrated the site over.

We have one section that is a HOW TO MANUAL where someone documented lots of resources within the forum, but now all of those internal links no longer work.

I'm wondering if anyone has any input on how to easily resolve this issue.

Old Forum
http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64914&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

New Forum
http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/diy-slick-tires.64914

Here's the manual that was built...

http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-manual-index.2599/

 

[Paul B]

Have you implemented any rewrites for the old phpBB links?

 

[ratrodbikes]

Not even sure how I would do this.

 

[Paul B]

See this post for an example: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/phpbb-import-url-redirect.32123/page-2#post-490573

You need to add rewrites to your .htaccess file.