XF 2.1 How do I edit the URL from old vBulletin link to redirect to new forum link?

[CZ Eddie]

Hi folks,

Slavik migrated my forum from vBulletin to Xenforo 2.1.
I don't want to hammer him with questions that may fall outside the service I paid for.

Users who had bookmarked the old forums forum page now see "Oops! We ran into some problems. The requested page could not be found."
How can I edit that page so it re-directs to the new forum page?
The homepage/DNS is working fine and shows the new site.
It's just the individual page bookmarks where URL's have changed and are getting that error (naturally).

 

[Mike]

You'd need to setup redirections for the old URLs: https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/import-notes-vbulletin/#xenforo-redirects-for-vbulletin

XenForo Redirects for vBulletin

XF301VB is a XenForo 2 add-on, which extends the XenForo router with the ability to accept URLs pointing to vBulletin content and seamlessly, permanently redirect them to their equivalent content in XenForo after the content has been imported...

xenforo.com

 

[CZ Eddie]

Hi folks, what am I doing wrong?

My forum was migrated from vBulletin 4.2.x to Xenforo 2.1.
I installed the latest redirect plugin.

Set vBulletin import log table: archived_import_log

Copied/renamed .htaccess and index.php into the old forum's directory on the new server.

Edited index.php as follows:

<?php

// Enter the full path to your XenForo directory here:
$dir = '/usr/local/lsws/sites/labusas/public_html';

require($dir . '/src/XF.php');

XF::start($dir);
XF::runApp('XF301VB\Pub\App');
~

NEW XENFORO DIRECTORY:
/usr/local/lsws/sites/labusas/public_html

OLD VBULLETIN DIRECTORY:
/home/oldvb

But still get this message when opening old links from Google.

Oops! We ran into some problems.
The requested page could not be found.

Here is an example of the URL's:

NEW:

Bike Talk

labusas.org

OLD:

Bike Talk

we live..

www.labusas.org

 

[MySiteGuy]

Do you also have an .htaccess file in the XF directory? Enable the redirection addon in XF's control panel, and in the settings selected the import table name?

 

[CZ Eddie]

Do you also have an .htaccess file in the XF directory? Enable the redirection addon in XF's control panel, and in the settings selected the import table name?

Yep, yep & yep!