[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by ikopylov

Many ideas...
Many questions

Create ftp access to the site root, and write it to me in a PM
I look

it will be faster than we fantasize for a few days
It is necessary to see the full picture of your redirects

As much as I appreciate your offer (and do not take this as an attack on you) I don't know you and giving access to ftp on my site at this point would be foolish on my behalf.

Here are the redirects that I have up to now, I have to build more AND I have to sort out redirects or rewrites for my showthread titles too.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forumz/
Options +FollowSymLinks
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([A-Za-z-]+)/([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\.html$ http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/$2.html
#Added by SImon Lloyd 14/02/2014
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.thecodecage\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
Redirect 301 /forumz/networking-peripherals/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=119[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-excel-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=64[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-access-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=70[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-powerpoint-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=74[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-project-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=77[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-publisher-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=80[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-visio-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=83[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-outlook-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=89[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-word-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=86[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-sharepoint-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=118[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/forumz/microsoft-topics/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=63[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/general-discussion/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=2[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/helpdesk/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=92[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/vip-registration-and-promotions/ /forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=103
Redirect 301 /forumz/introductions/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=110[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/jobs-offered/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=111[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/general-news-updates/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=44[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/feedback-forum/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=50[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/testing-ground/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=116[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/top-tips/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=52[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-office-topics-archive/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=108[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/hot-topics/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=117[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-office-tutorials/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=51[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/microsoft-office-application-homework-help/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=94[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/downloads/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=40[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/the-code-cage-resources-list/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=49[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/resource-forums/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=48[/url]
Redirect 301 /forumz/general-forums/ [url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/forumdisplay.php?f=1[/url]

Hopefully Igor you are still willing and able to help.

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As an added twist I use vbenterprisetranslator and many links submitted to google...etc look like this
[url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/es/networking-peripherals/[/url]

[url]http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/vi/networking-peripherals/[/url]
There are around 52 languages that all have their own 2 letter code so Ukraine would be /forumz/uk/networking-peripherals/ consequently a thread may look like http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/uk/652836-working-numbers.html
These are going to be a huge problem to sort?

Here's the list of languages:

af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is |id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|s r|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-#TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi

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Igor, your pm's and email are off - I've created a folder with the .htaccess in there if you'd rather do it by ftp, I can then copy the file over to the forum root and test