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.

 

[Jake Bunce]

@Pippo1

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

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)tid=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php$ /index.php?threads/%2/ [R=301,L]

 

[Pippo1]

Hello, I solved it using a script vbulletin,replaced "t" with "tid".

thanks anyway

 

[Jake Bunce]

If anyone needs to use the PHP redirect scripts in this thread with XF2, then you need to change the top of each file to initialize everything for XF2.

Old XF1 init:

<?php

$startTime = microtime(true);
$fileDir = dirname(__FILE__);

require($fileDir . '/library/XenForo/Autoloader.php');
XenForo_Autoloader::getInstance()->setupAutoloader($fileDir . '/library');

XenForo_Application::initialize($fileDir . '/library', $fileDir);
XenForo_Application::set('page_start_time', $startTime);

####################

// GET DB
$db = XenForo_Application::get('db');

$_REQUEST['slug'] = (isset($_REQUEST['slug']) ? $_REQUEST['slug'] : '');

...

New XF2 init:

<?php

$dir = __DIR__;
require ($dir . '/src/XF.php');

XF::start($dir);

####################

// GET DB
$db = XF::app()->db();

$_REQUEST['slug'] = (isset($_REQUEST['slug']) ? $_REQUEST['slug'] : '');

...

 

[Deepblue]

@Jake Bunce

Hi friend, i've just converted from mybb 1.8 to xenforo 2x

My old forum (mybb) url:
https://www.siteaddess.com/konu-forum-el-degisimi-hakkinda.html

New xenforo url:
https://www.siteaddess.com/threads/forum-el-degisimi-hakkinda.6470/

What shall i do to make it work?

What you suggest on this post unfortunately not working for me i dont know why:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirecting-mybb-urls.28809/post-779056

 

[RandallC]

I have tried everything in this thread to make it work and I can not.

Mybb to Xenforo

Old URL :http://www.nameslot.com/User-Harm-Helder
New Url: http://www.nameslot.com/members/randall.1/

Old Forum URL : http://www.nameslot.com/Forum-Names-Wanted
New: http://www.nameslot.com/forums/names-wanted.6/

I have the mybb_google_seo table in place, got the mybbthreadsredir.php installed and been trying to play with the htaccess.

 

[RandallC]

any help?

 

[alv4]

any help?

I did the same move, and I could't do anything sadly.

 

[alv4]

Well...
After reading well this topic. Only editing your httaccess is possible to create the correct redirections.

Thanks A LOT for this. It's working in May 2020

 

[Baby Community]

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.

I converted the baby forum 3 years ago from mybb. 7-8 months hit loss. It will surely be. If you say security and technology, you have to transform

 

[Baby Community]

@jmcl07

Place these rules at the top of the .htaccess file in the old /forums directory where MyBB was:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tid=([0-9]+)&pid=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php$ http://community.therealsocom.com/posts/%3/? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tid=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php$ http://community.therealsocom.com/threads/%2/? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)action=profile&uid=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^member\.php$ http://community.therealsocom.com/members/%2/? [R=301,L]

For example, I never asked when I was converting. You're lucky.