XF 2.1 XF301VB: vB2 links not redirected

[thomas1]

Surprisingly, we still get a lot of requests for links in vB2 formats, such as

https://site.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6126

https://site.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=55416

Unfortunately, calls using threadid and postid are not redirected by the official XF301VB script.

We'd appreciate any suggestions on how to effectively redirect those, too.

 

[thomas1]

Any veteran vB members on board? How have you redirected your vB2 links?

 

[Oldengine]

The same problem with ALL redirects here, we are alone in the woods!

 

[thomas1]

We opened a ticket with support and they suggested the following:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} threadid=([0-9]+)(&|$)
RewriteRule showthread\.php$ http://yoursite.com/threads/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} postid=([0-9]+)(&|$)
RewriteRule showthread\.php$ http://yoursite.com/posts/%1? [R=301,L]

It works on our site.

 

[Kirby]

That would partially work, but not always.

For example the following URL would most likely fail:
https://site.com/forum/showthread.php?foothreadid=0&threadid=6126