XF 1.2 Find and Replace Old URLS

[Brent W]

I have urls like this: http://3.8mustang.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258266

The new url looks like this: http://www.v6mustang.com/threads/the-cobra-is-totaled-pics-post-168.258266/

What I would prefer to do is do a find and replace for the first url and set it up with the new url. Is there a better option?

 

[Mike]

Well, you can allow the redirects to work. Otherwise, you'd need to write a fair amount of custom code to find the URL, parse it to resolve the format, then to look up the new URL to generate the link. (There's a theoretical information leak here, though really really edge case.)

 

[Brent W]

Well, you can allow the redirects to work. Otherwise, you'd need to write a fair amount of custom code to find the URL, parse it to resolve the format, then to look up the new URL to generate the link. (There's a theoretical information leak here, though really really edge case.)

The problem is that there were multiple domain changes and directory changes over the history and it got really messy.

I figure it wouldn't be too crazy since the threadids are the same in each url.

Essentially this works: http://www.v6mustang.com/threads/258266/ which is better than it not working at all which is the case now.