Redirection Scripts for vBulletin 3.x 8.0

[Moddis]

I am not using the vb > script for most of my link redirects because im writing my own RewriteRules to convert form vbSEo to Xen... but I did upload this script juuust in case someone possibly had a really old link using the old vb format.

When testing the following link, it did not redirect me to specific page, just the correct forum:

http://www.mysite.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22&order=desc&page=3

Redirected to :

http://www.mysite.com/forums/forumname.22/

Is that just how the script woks or did I miss a step?


EDIT: I think I may just be able to answer my own question here and say that its just the way the script was meant to work. Based on the number of threads that are set to show for each forum, the page number would not always match when converting to Xen.

 

[Jake Bunce]

I am not using the vb > script for most of my link redirects because im writing my own RewriteRules to convert form vbSEo to Xen... but I did upload this script juuust in case someone possibly had a really old link using the old vb format.

When testing the following link, it did not redirect me to specific page, just the correct forum:

http://www.mysite.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22&order=desc&page=3

Redirected to :

http://www.mysite.com/forums/forumname.22/

Is that just how the script woks or did I miss a step?

Here is a code example to add page numbers to these redirect scripts:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...rect-from-vb4-2-with-vbseo.45667/#post-490490

 

[Moddis]

Here is a code example to add page numbers to these redirect scripts:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...rect-from-vb4-2-with-vbseo.45667/#post-490490

Thanks. I just counted and they number of threads for each forum actually match so I'll go ahead and try out that showthread tweak you suggested.

 

[Bellinis]

Last weekend I succesfully moved over my second (VBSEO'd) forum to XF. The import script worked perfectly and the redirection of posts too. But now there are still a few old links that should not be accessible anymore, but still are:

http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/forum.php
http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/search.php
http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/online.php
...

New forum: http://www.skodaforum.nl/forum

How can I redirect these /board links to my new site?

Thanks!

 

[Jake Bunce]

Last weekend I succesfully moved over my second (VBSEO'd) forum to XF. The import script worked perfectly and the redirection of posts too. But now there are still a few old links that should not be accessible anymore, but still are:

http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/forum.php
http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/search.php
http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/online.php
...

New forum: http://www.skodaforum.nl/forum

How can I redirect these /board links to my new site?

Thanks!

You could add this rule to the .htaccess file in your /board directory:

RewriteRule ^(forum|search|online)\.php$ /forum/? [R=301,L]

That will redirect to the new XF index.

 

[Bellinis]

Ok great. And that won't conflict with the redirections already in place?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule f[\d]+/.+-([\d]+)-([\d]+).html showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule f[\d]+/.+-([\d]+).html showthread.php?t=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule f([\d]+)/i([\d]+).html forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule f([\d]+)/ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [NC,L]

 

[Jake Bunce]

Ok great. And that won't conflict with the redirections already in place?

There is no conflict.

 

[Bellinis]

One more:
I just found out that my old board URL is still showing the old VB under construction message to some users!
They had http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/index.php stored in their favourites and that page still doesn't forward anywhere :/ What else to put in my .htaccess?

 

[Jake Bunce]

On more:
I just found out that my old board URL is still showing the old VB under construction message to some users!
They had http://www.skodaforum.nl/board/index.php stored in their favourites and that page still doesn't forward anywhere :/ What else to put in my .htaccess?

RewriteRule ^(forum|search|online|index)\.php$ /forum/? [R=301,L]

 

[Blackbeard]

Any suggestions for the /archive/

 

[Jake Bunce]

Any suggestions for the /archive/

This package includes redirect scripts for the archive.

Please post an example archived thread URL.

 

[Nathan]

Is it possible to redirect to a new URL at the same time you are changing the software?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Is it possible to redirect to a new URL at the same time you are changing the software?

That is normally achieved by editing the 301config.php file (part of this redirect package) to specify the full server path to the XenForo directory (when it is different than vB). The redirect scripts are then uploaded to the old vB location with the path entered for the new XF location. The scripts then take care of both the change of directory and the XF redirect.

...unless XF is on a different server than vB in which case it is necessary to setup separate redirects to the new server, then these redirect scripts take over.

 

[QenTox]

Hi Mike, I found redirection scripts for IPB and vB, is there one for phpBB3 too? Thanks!

 

[Jake Bunce]

Hi Mike, I found redirection scripts for IPB and vB, is there one for phpBB3 too? Thanks!

Fundamentally these scripts serve to map old ids to new ones. This can be incorporated into any redirect by using rewrite rules. Here is a phpBB example:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/phpbb-import-url-redirect.32123/#post-366972

 

[Mike]

Mike updated Redirection Scripts for vBulletin 3.x with a new update entry:

Minor fixes and page number support

I think this code has been sitting around for a while. There are a couple compatibility fixes and support for redirecting specific pages via the INCLUDE_PAGE_LINKS define that is discussed in the updated 301config.php file.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[KenSmith]

@Mike, you need to take another quick look at the latest version (7)...

The showthread redirect stopped working with the latest version.
In showthread.php, it looks like you couldn't decide between variable name $data and $extraParams.

At showthread.php, line 31, you need to replace

$data = array('thread_id' => $newId);
$extraParams = array();

with just

$extraParams = array('thread_id' => $newId);

With this change, you get redirected to the right thread, but it still isn't redirecting to a page number. I haven't figured that part out yet.

 

[KenSmith]

Looks like the same issue occurs in forumdisplay.php

 

[Mike]

No forumdisplay.php is the correct format - good point with showthread.php though.

Showthread should be:

$target = XenForo_Link::buildPublicLink('canonical:threads', $data, $extraParams);

not:

$target = XenForo_Link::buildPublicLink('canonical:threads', $extraParams);

 

[KenSmith]

Cool, I learned something too. Awesome quick response. Thanks.