XF 2 Redirect external-old links from previous vbulletin installation

[Breixo]

Hi,
I'm getting 500 errors at Pagespeed related to old links posted on external sites pointing to my forum.
Examples:
showthread.php?t=10912
showthread.php?t=10912
forumdisplay.php?t=12343
foro/showthread.php?t=10912
foro/showthread.php?p=10945
foro/showpost.php?p=2309
foro/printthread.php?t=987&pp=10&page=23
foro/member.php?u=9876
forums/archive/index.php/t-asdfas.html
foro/archive/index.php/t-9873.html

I'm running Nginx + CentOS
Please, send me a quote on how much would cost to make redirection rules for these cases in order to reduce this 500 errors to a minimum.
Thanks!

 

[Mr Lucky]

There is already an official xenforo addon for this:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/xenforo-redirects-for-vbulletin.6123/

lus an older one for vbuuletin 3 only:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.5949/

I muse the newer one and find it works well for vbulletin 3 and 4

 

[Mr Lucky]

Examples of redirects in action.

vbulletin 3

http://cafesaxophone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135

vbulletin 4

http://cafesaxophone.com/community/showthread.php?10559-Various-books

 

[Breixo]

Examples of redirects in action.

vbulletin 3

http://cafesaxophone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135

vbulletin 4

http://cafesaxophone.com/community/showthread.php?10559-Various-books

Great! Thanks a lot.
I already installed it and I'm trying to make it work.
Now I'm on the "If you are using Nginx or another system, you simply need to replicate whatever configuration you have in place", not so easy for me

 

[MySiteGuy]

It won't cover the archive pages, and note that you'll need to modify the rules to take into account your forums have been at three different locations in the past:

/
/foro/
/forums/

 

[MySiteGuy]

Okay, fixed. It looks like some of the redirects initially in place before I started might have been fetched by Google, and that is why it had those errors. So I now added a redirect for those.