XF 1.2 vb4/vbseo import help

hamish

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Hi all, have recently moved to XF, its brilliant, what a breath of fresh air coming from vb4!!

Anyway, I was running vbseo (a mistake it turns out imo)

My urls were like this:

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/general-discussion/4075-x-pro1-better-than-d800.html

so url/node(as you guys call it)/thread id - title.html

If that makes sense?

to be honest, I wasn't that bothered about losing all the indexing in google, as I knew it would reindex in time. What this blinded me to was the fact that my internal linking would fall over ...

So, I have decided well after upgrading that I would now like to set up redirects on my old thread urls ... Is this possible?

I have searched a bit on the forums, but its a little like tumbling down a rabbit hole when you don't know what you are looking at ... and regex is a mystery at best to me!

Thanks
 
Hi all, have recently moved to XF, its brilliant, what a breath of fresh air coming from vb4!!

Anyway, I was running vbseo (a mistake it turns out imo)

Thanks
Welcome aboard!
These might help you out. If not, @Jake Bunce is one of the re-write gurus around.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/help-needed-with-rewrites-from-vbseo.54812/#post-585078
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/vbseo-links-to-xenforo.53401/#post-572671
http://xenforo.com/community/thread...h-vbseo-help-needed-please.52211/#post-559220
 
Not only did that first link provide me with the solution, you have also inadvertently introduced me to user tagging! So thanks on both counts!

And thank you to @Jake Bunce, it seems that you sir are a genius!

I have one more query on the subject ... I used that damned cms on vb
With this line...

Code:
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^\.]+\.html /forum/index.php?threads/$1/ [R=301,L]

...old links to cms pages go to incorrect threads - i assume because of the difference in ID's

an example http://www.realphotographersforum.com/content/945-richard-franiec-grip-rx100.html (an article about a grip for a camera)
goes to http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/new-idea.945/ (a thread suggesting a feature)

is there any way to solve this?
 
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