XF 1.5 Suffering from 404 Errors After Migrated from VBulletin 5

[bibitbunga]

Hi all

My forum is www.kebunpedia.com, and right now we are suffering from terrible issue: 404 not found everywhere, literally

We just moved from VBulletin 5 (there was a lot of bugs and errors) to XenForo.

Our users can not be any happier that this decision has made, obviously XF is loved by everyone!

But uh oh, I have a problem with the old url and can do nothing about that. The urls and index from VB5 are soo complicated and I do not find any solution to redirect all my urls in Google Search Console.

As a result, we got dropped in search clicks and might be in Google Ranking. We do not rank any more in certain keywords due to the 404 error. All is error if they come from google. Here is the screenshoot from Google:



And I used Four oh Four addon to help better 404 detection, here is the result:



I have been stressed out for 3 days now.. I read at Google that 404s do not hurt my site but what happened if all urls in my site are not found aka Big Problem of 404 errors

Please help me, please help suggest the way out of this problem..

Thank you a lot..

 

[Jake Bunce]

@Jake Bunce Hope you can help

Having problems too here, after a VB 3.8 import to XenForo.

My XF Forum is now on the same url I used to use for my VB forum:
http://www.cancuncare.com/forum/

Once I went live with XF I moved the VB forum to:
http://www.cancuncare.com/oldforum/

I did create an import log table but I don't know how to reference it, or where it is located. I did download the VB 3.8 redirection script and uploaded it to the new VB location. All my old url's are giving 404's

Example 1 for a thread:
Old url:
http://www.cancuncare.com/forum/temptation-resort-cancun/32952-october-2015-roll-call.html

Equivalent new XF url:
http://www.cancuncare.com/forum/threads/october-2015-roll-call.32952/

Example 2 for specific forum:

Old url:
http://www.cancuncare.com/forum/temptation-resort-cancun/

New url:
http://www.cancuncare.com/forum/forums/temptation-resort-cancun.11/

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the /forum directory:

RewriteEngine On

# thread redir
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^\./]+\.html$ /forum/threads/$1/ [R=301,L]
# forum redir
RewriteRule ^([color=red]temptation-resort-cancun|another-forum|and-another[/color])/$ /forum/forums/$1/ [R=301,L]

The forum redir will only work if you specify the URL portion in XF (previous post).