[eva2000]

Anyone got this working with vB3 RC2 ?

my forum urls are

forumdomain.com/f123/s
forumdomain/t234/s.html

my old rewrite rules for vB 2.3.x were

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/?$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s?$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]?)\.html$ /showthread.php?threadid=$1&s=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/s([^/\?]0-9)+/$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]

and my htaccess file already had the following

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm
Redirect /forums/ http://animeboards.com/index.php
ErrorDocument 404 http://animeboards.com/index.php
ErrorDocument 400 http://animeboards.com/index.php
ErrorDocument 401 /401.php

<Limit GET PUT POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from .paonline.com
deny from 216.220.160
deny from 216.220.161
deny from 216.220.162
deny from 216.220.163
deny from 216.220.164
deny from 216.220.165
deny from 216.220.166
deny from 216.220.167
deny from 216.220.168
deny from 216.220.169
deny from 216.220.170
deny from 216.220.171
deny from 216.220.172
deny from 216.220.173
deny from 216.220.174
deny from 216.220.175
deny from 12.148.196
deny from 12.148.209
</Limit>

i tried changing forumid and threadid to f= and t= but all i got was redirecting me to my main page..

so i gave up and tried looking for ways to use mod_rewrite to instead redirect to a file with message of the new url location using this code in url.php

PHP Code:

<?php
//break referring url to pieces to get directory path
$refer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
$pieces = explode("/", $refer);
//break directory path to get forum or thread id value
$refer2 = $pieces[3];
$fid = substr($refer2, 1);
$tid = substr($refer2, 1);

echo "This page has moved...<br>";
echo "<b>from:</b> ";
echo $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
echo "<br>";
echo "<b>to: </b>";
if ($refer2[0] == f) {
echo "http://forumdomain.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$fid";
} elseif ($refer2[0] == t) {
echo "http://forumdomain.com/showthread.php?t=$tid";
} else {
// header("Location: http://forumdomain.com/index.php");
echo "error";
}

?>

Which i intended for if the referring url is forumdomain.com/f123/s, i can explode and extract the forum id or thread id. I could change the echo's to PHP header redirects later... but you see what i mean

but problem is if i use mod_rewrite such as

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/?$ /url.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L] 
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)/s?$ /url.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)\.html$ /url.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
RewriteRule ^/t([0-9]+)/s([^/]?)\.html$ /url.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]

i end up with the referring url as not being http://forumdomain.com/f123/s but as the page which lists that url http://forumdomain.com/f123/s (i.e. search engine listing - it will show search engine's link as referring url)

any ideas ?