XF 1.5 DBSEO vb3 redirect help needed please.

[viper357]

Hi everyone, I am currently on vb 3.8.5 and have DBSEO installed, I need some help with rewrites for htaccess I believe.

This is what my current url's look like for threads:

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/general-discussions/63267-sump-advice-please.html

What do I need to add to my htaccess for the urls to rewrite? My Xenforo will be installed in a folder at /forums Thanks for the help.

Also, will I need to leave the DBSEO stuff in the htaccess file? This is what is in there at the moment...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^marineaquariumsa.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/$1 [R=301,L]`

RewriteEngine On

# If you are having problem with "None Could Be Negotiated" errors in Apache, uncomment this to turn off MultiViews
# Options -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|dbseocp/|modcp/|cron|mobiquo|forumrunner|api\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ dbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|dbseocp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ dbseo.php [L,QSA]

 

[viper357]

Can anyone help with this please?

 

[TPerry]

@viper357, @Jake Bunce may be able to help you out here. He's pretty good with this type of stuff.

 

[Jake Bunce]

The old DBSEO rules can be removed.

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^[^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^\./]+\.html$ /forums/threads/$1/ [R=301,L]

That will redirect the thread URLs.

With redirects in the web root and XF in a subdirectory you might need to set the RewriteBase in XF's .htaccess file to avoid conflicts.

 

[viper357]

Thank you very much Jake, appreciate that.

With redirects in the web root and XF in a subdirectory you might need to set the RewriteBase in XF's .htaccess file to avoid conflicts.

I don't quite understand that. The rewrite rules go into my old .htaccess file in the root, what must I do to XF's .htaccess file?

 

[viper357]

Oh wait, do you mean this bit? Do I just need to change this?

#  If you are having problems with the rewrite rules, remove the "#" from the
  #  line that begins "RewriteBase" below. You will also have to change the path
  #  of the rewrite to reflect the path to your XenForo installation.
  #RewriteBase /xenforo

 

[viper357]

Ok, I've figured it out, thanks for the help Jake, much appreciated.

 

[viper357]

I've been on XF for just over 2 months now. How long should I leave the rewrite rules in place? Are they ok to stay there indefinitely or is there some kind of timeframe after which they should be removed?

 

[Paul B]

It depends whether you want old links (Google, posted on other sites, etc.) to redirect or 404.

Google can take a significant amount of time to reindex.
Links posted on other sites will generally never be updated to the new URLs.

 

[viper357]

True, thanks, I'll just forget they are there for now.