XF 1.4 /Forums Folder & Numbers add after URL

[ActorMike]

We have a domain for our forum so we don't need the /forums/ folder. I removed it in the basic options, but it's still showing in the links.

http://forums.thunderbirdforum.com/forums/1955-1966-vintage-ford-thunderbird.6/

Also, why is there a .6 after the forum link?

The Vbulletin link was http://forums.thunderbirdforum.com/1955-1966-vintage-ford-thunderbird/

 

[ActorMike]

Looks like the posts have a number after them too.

 

[Jeremy P]

Those are their IDs, so that the titles can change without messing up existing links, 2 threads can exist with the same title, etc etc. You can actually assign forums a URL slug by editing them in the ACP that will remove the need for the ID to be in the URL, but beware that changing it in the future will break links.

Also the "/forums/" portion is so it knows what route it's trying to match, in this case it's returning a forum.

 

[ActorMike]

I see a place to add URL Portion: however, it still forces you to specify a character so it does not appear there is a way to keep the original URL

http://forums.thunderbirdforum.com/1955-1966-vintage-ford-thunderbird/

Am I missing something? I see what you are saying about the threads, I'm mainly concerned about the forums.

 

[Jeremy P]

You're correct that you won't be able to get the URL to match the original one. You could enter '1955-1966-vintage-ford-thunderbird' to get rid of the .6, but the 'forums/' is there to stay.

The standard solution for this situation though is to setup 301 redirects in Apache to redirect old URLs to new ones.

 

[ActorMike]

Is there a way to do a redirect? We generated a sitemap and submitted to Google/Bing however, some links in the forum go directly to pages.

For example
http://forums.fordthunderbirdforum.com/2002-2005-ford-thunderbird/3190-help-only-had-3-days.html

is now:

http://forums.fordthunderbirdforum.com/threads/help-only-had-it-3-days.3190/

 

[Paul B]

There are redirection scripts here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/categories/redirection-scripts.2/

 

[ActorMike]

@Brogan I was just there, I don't see anything that applies to our situation. Am I missing something? I used VBSEO so my links don't have the standard forumdisplay.php etc.

 

[Paul B]

This should help: http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/

 

[ActorMike]

I was able to import the XML file and it gave me this rule but I just tried it and it didn't work. :-(

RewriteRule [^/]+/([\d]+)-.+-([\d]+).html showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule [^/]+/([\d]+)-.+.html showthread.php?t=$1 [NC,L]

 

[Mike]

Do you have the previously mentioned redirects in place as well? Where have you placed the code in your .htaccess file?

 

[ActorMike]

Do you have the previously mentioned redirects in place as well? Where have you placed the code in your .htaccess file?

@Mike Thanks that was it! Redirects work now. I was confused. I thought they meant for you to use your actual .php files from the old site!