XF 1.4 vBulletin archive/index.php and tags redirects

[TacticalNuke]

I recently switched to XF and am using the following redirect package:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/redirection-scripts-for-vbulletin-3-x.264/

Most redirects are working fine. However, there are a few main areas that I'm still trying to figure out how to redirect:

archive/index.php redirects (archived threads)
tags.php?tag= (thread tags)

I've searched here on the forum but haven't found a solution yet. Can anyone assist?

Thank you.

 

[Paul B]

For any URLs not covered by the script, or which don't have an equivalent in XenForo, you will have to add manual rewrites to the .htaccess file.

 

[Slavik]

These should help with your archived threads:

RewriteRule archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/threads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[TacticalNuke]

These should help with your archived threads:

RewriteRule archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/threads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]

Thank you very much for the help. The following ended up working for the /t threads:

RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/index.php?threads/$1/ [R=301,L]
or
RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?threads/$1/ [R=301,L]

And this worked for the /f threads:

RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]
or
RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks again. I really appreciate the help.

 

[popowich]

Any thoughts on rewriting tags/ pages that are failing after migration into search result pages?

 

[XenBurger]

Also having this problem. Over 1,000 tags and no matter what rewrite rule we write (tongue twister!), it ignores it.

 

[Mike]

The specifics of redirects may vary for your specific situation, but here's an example set for tags.php: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/htaccess-redirection-help.81516/#post-818695

 

[XenBurger]

Thanks! Somehow we got it working in the meantime

 

[Derek Zeanah]

RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ http://yoursite.com/index.php?threads/$1/ [R=301,L]
or
RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?threads/$1/ [R=301,L]

If I weren't running on 11 hours of sleep since Friday morning I could do this better, but...

Is anyone capable of translating this into something that would work with Nginx? I'm pretty sure this is the rule I need to until Google reindexes my site (4 pages reindexed after submitting my sitemap 24 hours ago. Wheee!)

 

[Derek Zeanah]

Took a nap, entered a better search query, and found this site that converted the rule for me.

http://www.anilcetin.com/convert-apache-htaccess-to-nginx/

In the end the fix was this:

rewrite ^/archive/index.php/t-([0-9]+).html$ /index.php?threads/$1/ permanent;