Redirect for Defunct Forum ID Number?

[jnr]

Thanks Sean, but it doesn't work. Redirect doesn't parse the question mark or what comes after.

With a assist from Jake Bunce of the vBulletin team, who suggested I use the RewriteEngine, I tracked down the solution. I modified the code I found at http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/1917.htm. Here's an example of how to do it:

To redirect defunct link
http://www.greenmachines.net/forumdisplay.php?f=16

to
http://www.greenmachines.net/forumdisplay.php?f=31

put this in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^f=16$ 
RewriteRule ^forumdisplay\.php$ http://www.greenmachines.net/forumdisplay.php?f=31 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by fringehead

You could try a redirect with .htaccess like this:

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

I have not used this with vb but edit the .htaccess file in your forum folder and see if it works. If you have problem just delete the entry (or the .htaccess file) but I think it will work.

Sean