japersonal
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Just an idea: have a look at web server logs or have your hosting provider look at web server logs. There's a possibility that you will find useful information there.
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Redirection Scripts for vBulletin 3.x 8.0
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Just an idea: have a look at web server logs or have your hosting provider look at web server logs. There's a possibility that you will find useful information there.
japersonal
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Perhaps @RoldanLT can help you out, though I still believe web server logs provided by your hosting provider are a very valuable starting point.
Good luck!
Alpha1
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@Ludachris You might find this tool handy: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/
Ludachris
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I think I might have figured it out.... there looks to be some added code in the htaccess file from an SSL cert that was installed. I don't understand why, but when I removed it the rewrites worked. I need to confirm with the host why the code is there.
Thanks for the link Alfa1, I'll check that out.
Thanks for the link Alfa1, I'll check that out.
Surendra.S
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@Mike
What I did earlier :
Converted my vBulletin 3.x forum to XenForo 1.5 forum.
And used the redirect scripts (by XenForo) to redirect all vBulletin posts, forums etc to corresponding posts, forums in XenForo.
Note: I used these redirection scripts
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.27845/
Now:
I just converted my website from HTTP to HTTPS and the XenForo forum is working fine.
However the vBulletin posts, forums etc are not getting redirected now to corresponding posts, forums in XenForo.
Please let me know if I need to make any change to redirect scripts ?
What I did earlier :
Converted my vBulletin 3.x forum to XenForo 1.5 forum.
And used the redirect scripts (by XenForo) to redirect all vBulletin posts, forums etc to corresponding posts, forums in XenForo.
Note: I used these redirection scripts
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.27845/
Now:
I just converted my website from HTTP to HTTPS and the XenForo forum is working fine.
However the vBulletin posts, forums etc are not getting redirected now to corresponding posts, forums in XenForo.
Please let me know if I need to make any change to redirect scripts ?
Surendra.S
Active member
Any help pls ?
japersonal
Active member
Do you see any errors in the browser?
Have you checked web server logs? Ask your hosting provider in this regard.
Have you checked web server logs? Ask your hosting provider in this regard.
Route filters won't affect these scripts directly, as they are called by "real" files and thus are triggered before the normal XF mod_rewrite stuff happens. So I believe that should work. However, I'm not 100% positive what would happen if there was a link to
forums/123/ and you had a physical forums/ directory on the disk, so that may be something to check/test (whether default, non-filtered forum URLs still work as expected).
Mouth
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I would expect that https://netrider.net.au/forums/showthread.php?t=110044 redirects to https://netrider.net.au/threads/gen...t-gear-so-loud-to-engage-when-stopped.110044/ Instead it redirects to site home.
My /forums/301config.php file is setup correctly for both
$fileDir = '/var/www/[Xenforo]'; and define('IMPORT_LOG_TABLE', 'archived_import_log');I believe (it was many years ago) I retained ID's during import...
SQL:
mysql> select distinct(content_type) from archived_import_log;
+---------------+
| content_type |
+---------------+
| attachment |
| avatar |
| conversation |
| moderator |
| moderatorNode |
| node |
| poll |
| post |
+---------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select count(old_id) from archived_import_log;
+---------------+
| count(old_id) |
+---------------+
| 286765 |
+---------------+
1 row in set (0.10 sec)Should there be 'thread' content_type records, or the showthread.php just does a code mapping on the thread id in the URL?
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Redirecting to the site home is indicative that it couldn't find a look up for that request. And indeed, the lack of thread records in your import log would be the cause of this. At a minimum, you're also missing "user" logs. These are super fundamental to the import process, so they must have existed at some point. It almost looks like elements have been removed from the import log.
Unfortunately, that makes using the redirection scripts problematic as they assume the log entries are there. On the basis that you maintained IDs, you would likely need to do the redirection via .htaccess (assuming you're using Apache). I believe that would be something like (in the forums directory):
Unfortunately, that makes using the redirection scripts problematic as they assume the log entries are there. On the basis that you maintained IDs, you would likely need to do the redirection via .htaccess (assuming you're using Apache). I believe that would be something like (in the forums directory):
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&|\?)t=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php$ /threads/%2/? [R=301,L]Mouth
Well-known member
Yes, and I wonder by what and when. Unfortunately my SQL backups do not go back further than 6 mths, so unlikely to be able to recover them.
Thanks, I'm using Nginx and will looking at extrapolating for it. Would the same also work for users in replacing member.php?
Mouth
Well-known member
For those wanting nginx rewrite rules ...
Code:
location = /forums/member.php {
return 301 /members/$arg_u/;
}
location = /forums/showthread.php {
return 301 /threads/$arg_t/;
}
younes
Active member
Hello,
I have strange problem after upgrading from XF 1.5 to XF 2.1
All of my old urls (VB 3.8 + VBSEO) now redirecting to "domain.com/install/"
Noting changed on my server
Nginx + php 7.3
This is my rules:
I have strange problem after upgrading from XF 1.5 to XF 2.1
All of my old urls (VB 3.8 + VBSEO) now redirecting to "domain.com/install/"
Noting changed on my server
Nginx + php 7.3
This is my rules:
Code:
location ~* ^/thread[0-9\-]+\.html$ {
rewrite thread([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 permanent;
rewrite thread([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/forum[0-9]+\.html$ {
rewrite forum([0-9]+)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/[0-9]+-[^\.]+\.html$ {
rewrite /([0-9]+)-[^\.]+\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/forum[0-9]+-[^\.]+\.html$ {
rewrite forum([0-9]+)-[^\.]+\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/member[0-9]+\.html$ {
rewrite member([0-9]+)\.html$ /member.php?u=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/showthread.php/[0-9]+-[^\.] {
rewrite /showthread.php/([0-9]+)-[^\.] /showthread.php?t=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/showthread.php/[0-9] {
rewrite /showthread.php/([0-9]+) /showthread.php?t=$1 permanent;
}
location ~* ^/member.php/[0-9]+-[^\.] {
rewrite /member.php/([0-9]+)-[^\.] /member.php?u=$1 permanent;
}
Ludachris
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What about the htaccess file in the old vb forums dir? Do you need to remove the rewrite code in it? I just upgraded from 1.5 to 2.2 and have the old XF1 redirect files in the old vb dir. All my old vb links look to be forwarding to the XF forum index page now. I've installed the XF2 redirects add-on and am going to delete the old XF1 redirect files.
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