[pitrow]

OK, here's what I did. Keep in mind it may not work for you, depending on your setup.

I was upgrading from phpbb 3.0.3 to vB CMS 4.0.

the old forum was on www.mydomain.com/forum.

The new CMS was installed in the root.

Most of the code works just fine, but here's exactly what I changed from the default 404.php you can download off of this page (as of today anyway).

change

$old_folder 	= 'phpBB/';

to

$old_folder 	= 'forum/';

change

$standard_404 	= 'http://www.example.com/not_found.html';

to

$standard_404 	= 'http://www.mydomain.com/404.shtml';

this points to my existing 404 file


change

$new_domain 	= 'example';

to

$new_domain 	= 'www.mydomain.com';

change

$new_folder		= 'vBulletin/';

to

$new_folder		= '';

notice I completely removed that string since I'm installing in the root.


changed the user, password and database variables to my particular values.


Inside

switch ($old_system)
{
	case 'phpBB2' :

change

$old_thread_script 	= "viewtopic{$old_ext_type}?t=";

to

$old_thread_script 	= "viewtopic{$old_ext_type}?f=";

inside

// It's for the old forum
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/{$old_folder}") === 0)
{
	switch ($old_system)
	{
		case 'phpBB2' :

find

$old_id = intval(substr(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 2), 0,  strpos(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 2), '&')));

now, I wasn't quite sure exactly what Jerry was doing with this code, so I just rewrote it so I'd know it would work. His might work just fine, but I didn't try it.


replace that line with:

$topic_loc = strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"&t=");
$end_loc = strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"&",$topic_loc+1);
if ($end_loc === FALSE)
{
	$old_id = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$topic_loc+3);
}
else
{
	$old_id = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$topic_loc+3, ($end_loc-($topic_loc+3)));
}

That's it.

I uploaded that to the root of my account, and made a .htaccess file with this line in it:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

I also deleted everything from the "forum" directory and uploaded an index.php file there that contains this:

<?PHP
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/forum.php" );
?>

That way if someone tries to go to the old http://www.mydomain.com/forum, they get redirected to the new forum page, and if someone tries to get a forum or topic, the 404.php gets it and redirects them correctly.