phpBB3 migration - post links

[SnoSheriff]

I'm migrating my website from DragonflyCMS. Unfortunately XF doesn't have the direct Import tool so I need to make an intermediate step by moving my site to phpBB3. Then I'd like to move from phpBB3 to XF. Many of my site's threads point to other treads on the website. Will the Import tool convert any hyperlinks inserted in the threads and rebuild them with links pointing to the new XF site? Thank you.

 

[Clay Culver]

Yes it had no problem converting my old phpBB3 forum. Old one is no longer active or online but the new one is at http://hpg.clanhellshorses.org this post here http://hpg.clanhellshorses.org/posts/437/ had a lot of links and attachments and came out fine.

 

[Mike]

You will need to put something in place to explicitly handle redirects. There are some tools for phpBB. However, you're only using it as an intermediate, so your links are going to refer to whatever the DragonflyCMS URLs are. I don't know what those links are, but you're likely going to need to do something custom to do the redirects (and because of there's a double import, it's more likely that your IDs will change which makes redirects significantly more difficult).

 

[SnoSheriff]

I've been running XF for about and things are great. It's time to revisit this topic. Yes, the new XF forum hyperlinks link back to the old DragonflyCMS URLs which no longer can be viewed and eventually that software will be removed. Here is an example of my situation:

thread: http://www.xjbikes.com/forums/index...ench-synch-your-carbs.6366/page-3#post-215621

1. points to the old forum URL that's no longer open so it won't resolve: http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=3690.html
2. However, thread in #1 exists in the new XF forum here: www.xjbikes.com/forums/index.php?threads/3690

I'd like to change the hyperlinks from #1 and have them to point to XF forum in #2. How can I do this?

 

[Paul B]

If that is a phpBB URL, I believe there is a resource available.

Otherwise you're going to need a custom solution.
You will need the import log too, to map old to new, unless all of the IDs are the same.

 

[SnoSheriff]

"phpbb3' should be removed from the thread title

No, that is not PHPBB URL.

The old forum's thread IDs are the same as in XF.

 

[Jake Bunce]

I've been running XF for about and things are great. It's time to revisit this topic. Yes, the new XF forum hyperlinks link back to the old DragonflyCMS URLs which no longer can be viewed and eventually that software will be removed. Here is an example of my situation:

thread: http://www.xjbikes.com/forums/index...ench-synch-your-carbs.6366/page-3#post-215621

1. points to the old forum URL that's no longer open so it won't resolve: http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=3690.html
2. However, thread in #1 exists in the new XF forum here: www.xjbikes.com/forums/index.php?threads/3690

I'd like to change the hyperlinks from #1 and have them to point to XF forum in #2. How can I do this?

Since your threadids are the same you can use a simple rewrite rule to handle redirects. Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^Forums/viewtopic/t=([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/index.php?threads/$1 [R=301,L]

This assumes the old /Forums directory is gone.

 

[SnoSheriff]

Jake, I implemented this code and tested with few links. Seems to work great. I'll do more testing tomorrow. THANKS!

 

[SnoSheriff]

I notice that the rule works when the users link starts with "www.xjbikes" but doesn't seem to work when the link doesnt' have "www." in front of the link path

How would I modify the RewriteRule code to address the links without "www." ?

 

[Jake Bunce]

I notice that the rule works when the users link starts with "www.xjbikes" but doesn't seem to work when the link doesnt' have "www." in front of the link path

How would I modify the RewriteRule code to address the links without "www." ?

The rule doesn't specify a subdomain so it should work. Maybe "www" and "no www" point to different root directories such that you need a .htaccess file in both locations?

 

[SnoSheriff]

Dragonfy is installed in the root but I will be removing that shortly. XF is installed in the /forums sub-directory off the root.

I made the above changes in the root .htaccess not realizing that the /forums directory has one as well. Either way, I updated the /forums/.htaccess and it didn't change anything.

Is it possible to run a SQL query in the XF database looking for

xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=NumericValue

and have it replaced with

xjbikes.com/forums/index.php?threads/NumericValue

 

[Jake Bunce]

Use Kier's addon:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/post-content-find-replace.6548/

Quick Find: xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=

Regular Expression: #xjbikes\.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=([0-9]+)\.html#siU

Replacement String: xjbikes.com/forums/index.php?threads/\1

Backup first.