XF 1.5 Please Help With Rewrite Rules

[ISSL]

Hi All,

Imported from SMF a while ago, and forgot i will need to add a rewrite rule to convert old thread links in messages to Xenforo format.

How would i create a rule to convert :-


https://www.gscalecentral.net/index.php?topic=67947.0
to
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/67947

any help would really be appreciated.

 

[wang]

Please see this link.

https://xenforo.com/help/friendly-urls/

 

[ISSL]

Seen it, but does not help with my specific question about how to write a rewrite rule.

 

[wang]

Seen it, but does not help with my specific question about how to write a rewrite rule.

Did you enable Use Full Friendly URLs option and renamed the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess?

 

[ISSL]

Yes, this is not a problem with the seo fucntions of xf, its an issue converting an old format url to xf

As per my original post

https://www.gscalecentral.net/index.php?topic=67947.0
to
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/67947


xf does not know about https://www.gscalecentral.net/index.php?topic=67947.0

 

[ISSL]

Sorted it

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^topic=(\w+?)(\..+)?$
RewriteRule ^index.php /threads/%1? [R=301,NC,L]