XF 1.2 Merged 2 xenforo sites

[AWS]

I recently acquired a forum in the same niche. I decided to merge the 2 rather than having 2 sites covering the same topic.

Is there a way to set redirect URLs of the merged site so that the links to the threads and posts are not broken?

 

[Liam W]

No, there isn't in any way, as the content ID's will be completely different, as there was already content present.

Liam

 

[Alpha1]

This needs an addon

 

[Liam W]

This needs an addon

How would it work though? The content ID's would be completely changed up, so there would be no way to map from the old posts to the new ones...

Liam

 

[Alpha1]

The old Ids and an id for the original site would need to be kept in a separate table.
It's not optimal. But it does allow for redirects.

 

[Paul B]

Did you save/archive the import log?
If so it will be possible but it would require a redirection script.
I don't believe one has been written for an XF to XF import.

 

[AWS]

Did you save/archive the import log?
If so it will be possible but it would require a redirection script.
I don't believe one has been written for an XF to XF import.

Yes I did save the import log. I was looking through the resource manager and import docs and didn't see any redirection scripts for a xenforo to xenforo merge.

 

[Paul B]

I don't believe there is one; I don't think there have been many XF to XF imports up to this point so the demand hasn't really been there.

It wouldn't be too difficult to write one, considering the URL structure is the same.
Unfortunately I don't have time to do that at the moment.

 

[Jake Bunce]

I can help with this. I need an example old and new URL of the same thread on both the old and new forum.

Ideally the two forums were on different domains which will allow us to limit the redirects to just the old forum's URLs.

 

[AWS]

Thanks Jake.

Here is a thread at the old forum:

http://www.adminaddict.net/threads/2546/

Here is is the same thread on the site it was merged into:

http://admin-talk.com/threads/puzzling-user-ranks.46826/

 

[Jake Bunce]

Upload these scripts to the web root of admin-talk.com:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

If your import records are not contained in the xf_import_log table then you need to edit the 301config.php file to specify the name of the table.

Then add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the web root for adminaddict.net. If both domains are parked on the same site then it will be XF's .htaccess file which is fine:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?adminaddict\.net$
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)/ http://admin-talk.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

 

[AWS]

Works perfect. All threads redirect to the correct URLs. Thanks Jake.

 

[Brent W]

Upload these scripts to the web root of admin-talk.com:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

If your import records are not contained in the xf_import_log table then you need to edit the 301config.php file to specify the name of the table.

Then add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the web root for adminaddict.net. If both domains are parked on the same site then it will be XF's .htaccess file which is fine:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?adminaddict\.net$
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)/ http://admin-talk.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

These aren't working for me with the content in the url. Old url: http://www.aspergic.com/threads/karl-pilkington.717/

If I take out karl-pilkington. it works.

 

[Brent W]

This worked for me:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^forums/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/forumdisplay_aspergic.php?f=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^categories/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/forumdisplay_aspergic.php?f=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^members/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/member_aspergic.php?u=$1 [R=301,L]

 

[Brent W]

How do I get pages to work for threads? This isn't working:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/page-([0-9]+) https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]

 

[Jake Bunce]

How do I get pages to work for threads? This isn't working:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/page-([0-9]+) https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]

That should work. Try downloading the latest version of these scripts:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

Older versions didn't do pages.

 

[Brent W]

That should work. Try downloading the latest version of these scripts:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

Older versions didn't do pages.

Hmm I downloaded fresh today.

This is my current .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/page-([0-9]+) https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^members/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/member_aspergic.php?u=$1 [R=301,L]

 

[Jake Bunce]

Hmm I downloaded fresh today.

This is my current .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^threads/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/page-([0-9]+) https://www.aspiescentral.com/showthread_aspergic.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?aspergic\.com$
RewriteRule ^members/[^\./]+\.([0-9]+)/ https://www.aspiescentral.com/member_aspergic.php?u=$1 [R=301,L]

Looks fine. What happens when you visit an old URL? Does it redirect anywhere? If so, where? Or does it not redirect? Does it give an error message?

 

[Brent W]

Url example: http://aspergic.com/threads/jobs.48/page-2

 

[Jake Bunce]

Oh...

The page redirect needs to go before the non-page redirect.