MattW
Well-known member
I followed the information posted here to help get some of my old URL's working with XenForo.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/phpbb3-redirection.28094/
I've been taking a closer look at the google crawl errors, and I noticed I've been getting a lot of 404s still, relating to links like below, where it's referencing the direct post ID
Not found (1,630)
I've been able to get around this with some more rules in my .htaccess file
To fix viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1162054 types:
and to fix viewtopic.php?p=78411 types:
These now all work correctly
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1162054
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33932
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/phpbb3-redirection.28094/
I've been taking a closer look at the google crawl errors, and I noticed I've been getting a lot of 404s still, relating to links like below, where it's referencing the direct post ID
Not found (1,630)
Code:
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1162054
Code:
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=78411
I've been able to get around this with some more rules in my .htaccess file
To fix viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1162054 types:
Code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} f=(\d+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(viewforum\.php|viewtopic\.php)$ /forum/forums/%1? [L,R=301,NC]
and to fix viewtopic.php?p=78411 types:
Code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)p=([0-9]+)(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^viewtopic\.php$ /forum/posts/%2? [L,R=301,NC]
These now all work correctly
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1162054
http://www.z22se.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33932