problem with archive address "/" insted of "?"

[koorosh1]

hello....

all of my forum archive address were like this :

http://p30city.net/archive/index.php?t-21.html

but 3-4 days ago when i upgrade my forum the old addresses are not avilable
and new addresses are like this :

http://p30city.net/archive/index.php/t-21.html


and it is very bad for SEO and search engins like google none of our addresses for archive are avilable....

i have sent a ticket and they told me the new form of address is correct

so i want to use rewrite_mod and .htaccess file to redirect the old addresses

could you please help me ?

really most of forums i know in iran have the "?" form for their archive .....


thank you

[Lynne]

I was just clicking around on my forum and all my urls in the archive have the / in them, not a ? . Did you use a modification or did you modify your code to use a ?

[koorosh1]

thank you....
NO I DONT use anything ....
i havent made any changes in my mod and plugin just upgrading my board from 368 to 3612 ...
and this change have been made automaticly...

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please see google cache for see old addreses :

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=archive%2Findex.php&btnG=%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fp30city.net

and see this forum.... http://forum.niksalehi.com/archive/
it is one of good and big persian forum .... they are like us .....

[koorosh1]

i found where this difference comes ....

global.php at archive .....

in the correct version (3612) from line 126-129 :
we have :

if (is_array($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"]))
	{
		foreach($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"] AS $x)
		{

but in another version we have an extra line :

if (is_array($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"]))
	{
		$output = "\n$indent<ul>\n";
	
		foreach($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"] AS $x)
		{

and some next lines too...

i dont know PHP so maybe it is not frome these lines but i can see it is from this file...

i have replaced this 2 files then i could access ( ? ) form of addresses ....


but really if slash form (/) is better i want to have it defult and redirect the old addreses with .htaccess file but i dont know how !

i have attached both global.php and you can test them...

thank you..

[Lynne]

Have you tried googling "htaccess redirect" ? You should find how to write a redirect that way.

[koorosh1]

thank you...
i know a few about htaccess commands and read all article about it...
but really i couldnt resolv it ...

never minde..... i use the old global.php till i can redirect the old addreses..
thank you for your helping but i will check this again.... and if i finde a way i will tell you