Redirecting MyBB URL's

[m1ne]

Hello.

I've not converted my MyBB forum yet, but I know this will be a problem, so I am posting now.
Is there any way to redirect old MyBB url's to XF links? Using htaccess perhaps?
MyBB URL's look like this,

/thread-30028.html
/forum-121.html
/user-2.html

I've got a lot of indexed url's so I hope there's a way to do this.

Thank you.

 

[ceptime]

Ok that is different than your original example.

Upload this script to your web root (where XF is):

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirecting-mybb-urls.28809/page-2#post-708975

Edit the end of that file to specify your forum URL:

if ($id)
{
    header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
    header ('Location: http://cepedit.com/forum/' . $id);
}

Then add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^forum-([^/]+)$ /mybbforumredir.php?slug=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

where add ??? frumredir.php

 

[ceptime]

@Jake Bunce thanks no problem great

 

[potito]

Dear Jake, I have the same problem. I need rules to redirect mybb threads with google seo to xenforo.
I import the data from mybb to xenforo and I think all threads as the same id.
The language of mybb forum is spanish (with special characters)

This is a example of same thread in mybb and xenforo

mysitemybb.com/Tema-Qué-cigarro-estás-fumando-mientras-el-Foro-se-cae

mysitexenforo.com/threads/¿qué-cigarro-estás-fumando-mientras-el-foro-se-cae.9394/

The title of the thread is exactly:
¿Qué cigarro estás fumando mientras el Foro "se cae"?

Thanks.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Dear Jake, I have the same problem. I need rules to redirect mybb threads with google seo to xenforo.
I import the data from mybb to xenforo and I think all threads as the same id.
The language of mybb forum is spanish (with special characters)

This is a example of same thread in mybb and xenforo

mysitemybb.com/Tema-Qué-cigarro-estás-fumando-mientras-el-Foro-se-cae

mysitexenforo.com/threads/¿qué-cigarro-estás-fumando-mientras-el-foro-se-cae.9394/

The title of the thread is exactly:
¿Qué cigarro estás fumando mientras el Foro "se cae"?

Thanks.

Upload this script to the web root of mysitexenforo.com:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirecting-mybb-urls.28809/page-2#post-692873

Be sure to edit that script to specify your forum URL.

Then copy the mybb_google_seo table from MyBB's database to XF's database.

Then add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the web root of mysitemybb.com:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^Tema-([^/]+)$ http://www.mysitexenforo.com/mybbthreadredir.php?slug=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

 

[potito]

And what is the rule to rewrite nodes or forums from mybb to xenforo?
This is an example of my old forum:

http://www.mysite.com/Foro-Análisis-de-competiciones

to xenforo:

http://www.mysite.com/forums/análisis-de-competiciones.4/

I have a problem, because if I search mysite in google it appears the home page and several main subforums.
Thanks.

 

[Mike]

Since there is no ID in that URL, you need to write the redirects individually using something like the Redirect directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

 

[potito]

Finally I used the script made by Jake: mybbforumredir.php located here:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirecting-mybb-urls.28809/page-2#post-708975

I edit mybbforumredir.php adding the URL of my site
Uploading to root directory

And I wrote this rule in my .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^Foro-([^/]+)$ http://www.mysite.com/mybbforumredir.php?slug=$1 [R=301,L]

And now I think this works fine to redirect old forums to new xenforo forums.

Thanks!!!

 

[potito]

Dear friends, now I have a new problem (not related with google)
In my forum I have old posts with old links to old Mybb foro, what rules I need to use to redirecto to correct xenforo forum?

Example:
http://www.xxmysite.com/thread-353-post-23248.html#pid23248
http://www.xxmysite.com/thread-353-post-23248.html

I assume the id and pid is the same in both forums, but I dont known the rules in .htaccess to rewite this old links.
Please help.

Thanks.

 

[Jake Bunce]

@potito

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^thread-[0-9]+-post-([0-9]+)\.html$ /xf/posts/$1/ [R=301,L]

This assumes your XF forum is installed at http://www.xxmysite.com/xf/

 

[potito]

@Jake Bunce

@potito

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^thread-[0-9]+-post-([0-9]+)\.html$ /xf/posts/$1/ [R=301,L]

This assumes your XF forum is installed at http://www.xxmysite.com/xf/

Thank you very much, I forgot this link type:
http://www.xxmisite.com/thread-3535.html

is this the correct rule?:

http://www.xxmisite.com/thread-3535.html

RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)\.html$ /threads/$1/ [R=301,L]

Assuming xenforo is located in root

 

[Jake Bunce]

@potito

Yes that is correct.

 

[Axel B]

Hi @Jake Bunce, I hope you can help me.
I migrated my MyBB forum almost half a year ago and never knew about the possibilities of redirects. I don't have the old database anymore so it cannot be helped. The Google bots have gone over the site for many months now so SEO is corrected.

I've read through this page and saw in the last few posts that it is possible to redirect old links mentioned in topics can be redirected to the right URL. The code is a mystery to me so I hope you can help out.

Examples of links mentioned in old topics. The last two examples are

http://www.mainecoon.nl/nl/interactief/forum/showthread.php?tid=74300
http://mainecoon.nl/nl/interactief/forum/showthread.php?tid=80719
http://www.mainecoon.nl/nl/interactief/forum/showthread.php?tid=43215

Examples of links in of the Xenforo forum:

http://mainecoon.nl/forum/threads/kaja.82249/#post-1945545
http://mainecoon.nl/forum/threads/altijd-weer-zwaar-die-maandagen.82248/#post-1945544

Is it possible? Thanks for your time!

 

[Jake Bunce]

@Axel B

Are the ids the same for threads?

If not, did you use the built-in MyBB importer that comes with XF? The built-in importer would have created an import log which can be used to do the id mapping.

 

[Axel B]

Hi @Jake Bunce , The IDs are not the same. I did use the built in MyBB importer that comes with XF. The import log is created.

I've asked @MattW to help out. He migrated and upgraded my old VPS to light speed awesomeness on NGINX.

If you have any tips or pointers how to take care of those for MattW, that would be highly appreciated!

Thanks for your time

 

[Jake Bunce]

Upload these scripts:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

...too /nl/interactief/forum/

Edit the 301config.php file to specify the full server path to your XF directory, and also to specify the name of the import log table from the MyBB import.

Edit showthread.php and replace all instances of 't' with 'tid'. That should make it so your old thread URLs are redirected to XF with the new ids.

 

[Axel B]

@Jake Bunce many thanks! Will now await @MattW's magic

 

[MattW]

Upload these scripts:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

...too /nl/interactief/forum/

Edit the 301config.php file to specify the full server path to your XF directory, and also to specify the name of the import log table from the MyBB import.

Edit showthread.php and replace all instances of 't' with 'tid'. That should make it so your old thread URLs are redirected to XF with the new ids.

Thanks Jake, I've set this up and it does appear to be working

 

[Axel B]

@MattW, many thanks!
@Jake Bunce, thanks again for pointing in the right direction! Highly appreciated

 

[SurferJon]

Thank you @Jake Bunce for this wonderful guide! However, I have a bit of a problem - I'm running Nginx. Do you have any scripts I could use for my .conf file that would turn the myBB Google SEO URLs into XF friendly URLs? Thank you so much!

 

[Axel B]

@SurferJon, hire @MattW. He fixed it for my forum