A few days ago I converted my SMF 1.1.7 forum over to vbulletin 3.8.1, but I need to quickly get my old smf url's 301 redirected to the new vb style urls.

This is the best thing I got so far, but I don't know how to use it for SMF! But I heard it can be done: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...=176964&page=4

Google is going to shoot bolts of lightning at my site if I don't quickly figure out how to redirect those old url's! Right now, all the old url's just forward to my forum homepage.

I tried using .htaccess like this
redirect 301 /index.phpSMFtopicURL http://www.example.com/newVBtopicURL

But the old topic url STILL just forwarded to my forum homepage. And it's about 200 url's im trying to redirect, which can cause a 500 internal server error with all those redirects in .htaccess.

Anyway. Fast help is appreciated. I can't find answers anywhere.

Give us an EXACT example of old and new URLs and we can figure something out.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Give us an EXACT example of old and new URLs and we can figure something out.

OLD urls
http://www.Example.com/index.php?topic=162

NEW urls
http://www.Example.com/showthread.php?t=333

Thanks

Still need help with this..

I'm using this code to create a 301 redirect from old smf forum to new vbulletin forum. But I'm getting these two errors when i visit an old url:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /my/absolute/path/vbseo301.php on line 2

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /my/absolute/path/vbseo301.php on line 2

I can't understand the problem?

I am not sure, but you could try one of these. These go in your .htaccess file.

You could do a RedirectionMatch. Need one for each page.

 redirectMatch permanent index\.php\?topic=1 showthread\.php\?t=1

OR if they have the same number

 redirectMatch permanent index\.php\?topic=(,*) showthread\.php\?t=$1

OR

 Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index\.php\?topic=(,*)$ showthread\.php\?t=$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by noobster

I am not sure, but you could try one of these. These go in your .htaccess file.

You could do a RedirectionMatch. Need one for each page.

 redirectMatch permanent index\.php\?topic=1 showthread\.php\?t=1

OR if they have the same number

 redirectMatch permanent index\.php\?topic=(,*) showthread\.php\?t=$1

OR

 Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index\.php\?topic=(,*)$ showthread\.php\?t=$1 [R=301,L]

The thread numbers aren't the same. None of the above code worked