stevenavery
Member
Redirection problems often occur after migrations. The vBulletin redirection add-on is no longer supported, this was a change made fairly recently.
And there does not seem to be any straightforward trouble-shooting tech way to try to resolve the problem, even if the import table looks to have been properly created. (We could look at this more closely!)
My forum is like a research blog.
www.purebibleforum.com
Current Google searches are generally based on the old urls, and give:
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Not Found
The requested URL /showthread.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at www.purebibleforum.com Port 443
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Over time, Google would likely catch up to the current forum, but it is unclear how long it would take, and when they would drop the invalid links. In the meantime, this makes Google and other search engines unusable, and this is very frustrating to those trying to use the forum material. Same with links that were placed on other groups and forums. (We are trying a special attempt to handle the internal links within the forum, and I will report the result.)
So the need is for someone skilled with Apache with PHP and whatever is the skill-set to go in there and intercept those misses, and put up either the Xenforo front page, or, better yet, a special landing page that explains that we have redirected from the Google search. And inviting the user to search using the internal forum search (which might be enhanced by an add-on.)
In the best world, the parameters of the search would be passed, more or less, to the internal search, that is getting a bit more sophisticated.
Please contact me if you think this is the type of (paid) project you could do and would like to do!
And feel free to discuss, improve and troubleshoot this idea on this thread as well.
As an aside, I remember we had someone do something on my WordPress business site where they bypassed the normal processes and put up a landing page, specialty, explaining that we were down for the day. (Sometimes there might even be a plug-in for that in WordPress.)
And since folks here would be familiar with Xenforo forum software, that is a big plus for this landing page project.
More likely to lead to additional projects!
The site is on Linode, on a VPS unmanaged server. Access will be fully available.
Thanks!
And there does not seem to be any straightforward trouble-shooting tech way to try to resolve the problem, even if the import table looks to have been properly created. (We could look at this more closely!)
My forum is like a research blog.
www.purebibleforum.com
Current Google searches are generally based on the old urls, and give:
==============
Not Found
The requested URL /showthread.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at www.purebibleforum.com Port 443
==============
Over time, Google would likely catch up to the current forum, but it is unclear how long it would take, and when they would drop the invalid links. In the meantime, this makes Google and other search engines unusable, and this is very frustrating to those trying to use the forum material. Same with links that were placed on other groups and forums. (We are trying a special attempt to handle the internal links within the forum, and I will report the result.)
So the need is for someone skilled with Apache with PHP and whatever is the skill-set to go in there and intercept those misses, and put up either the Xenforo front page, or, better yet, a special landing page that explains that we have redirected from the Google search. And inviting the user to search using the internal forum search (which might be enhanced by an add-on.)
In the best world, the parameters of the search would be passed, more or less, to the internal search, that is getting a bit more sophisticated.
Please contact me if you think this is the type of (paid) project you could do and would like to do!
And feel free to discuss, improve and troubleshoot this idea on this thread as well.
As an aside, I remember we had someone do something on my WordPress business site where they bypassed the normal processes and put up a landing page, specialty, explaining that we were down for the day. (Sometimes there might even be a plug-in for that in WordPress.)
And since folks here would be familiar with Xenforo forum software, that is a big plus for this landing page project.
More likely to lead to additional projects!
The site is on Linode, on a VPS unmanaged server. Access will be fully available.
Thanks!
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