Removed vBSEO - How To Redirect Members & Groups?

[Fynnon]

I removed vBSEO from the forum and used the suggested rewrite code for threads and it works
Unfortunately i could not get forum members and groups rewrite to work, any ideas what i could try ?

http://www.site.com/members/user-5.html to http://www.site.com/member.php?u=5
http://www.site.com/groups/new-group.html to http://www.site.com/group.php?groupid=1

This is what i have now in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.site.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.site.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]

Redirect 301 /forum/subforum http://www.site.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
Redirect 301 /forum/subforum/subforum http://www.site.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[Brandon Sheley]

Might hit up Joe (BirdofPrey) he helped me with some custom redirects after I removed vbseo on one of my sites.

[BirdOPrey5]

Unfortunately groups can't be redirected being as there is no ID number in the URL.

If your VBSEO was setup to actually put a userid in the URL for your Member's profile pages then you are really lucky because I've never seen a VBSEO setup that actually did that- and without the userid in the URL you would be out of luck there too.

However given the example URL you provided:

http://www.site.com/members/user-5.html

Try this rewrite rule

RewriteRule members/.+-(\d)\.html http://www.site.com/member.php?u=$1 [L,R=301]

If that's not it, it's close. If you can post an actual link it might help if I need to fix it.

[Fynnon]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Try this rewrite rule

It works ! Thanks

Could you please show me something similar for forums ?
Right now i have a working rule for showthread and members but forumdisplay is not working

[BirdOPrey5]

I need to know what your old link looked like. An example would be great.

[Fynnon]

Here is an example:

OLD: http://bvlist.com/p2p/news/introduce-yourself/

NEW: http://bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38

Thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

Again, if there's no id number in the old links there's no way to do an automatic rule.

I suppose you could add a rule for every single forum you had but it doesn't seem efficient-

If you wanted to though as an example;

RewriteRule p2p/news/introduce-yourself/ http://bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38 [L,R=301]

[Fynnon]

The thing is that after the last changes i started getting white pages on Firefox and Opera but not IE or Chrome. Any ideas why?

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.bvlist.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule members/.+-(\d)\.html http://www.bvlist.com/member.php?u=$1 [L,R=301]

Redirect 301 /p2p/forum/downloads/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16
Redirect 301 /p2p/forum/sell-buy/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37
Redirect 301 /p2p/forum/tracker-invites/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36
Redirect 301 /p2p/forum/community-cafe/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18
Redirect 301 /p2p/forum/tutorials/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=61

Redirect 301 /sourcecode/zentracker/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81
Redirect 301 /sourcecode/Gazelle/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=40
Redirect 301 /sourcecode/Project-U-232/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=80
Redirect 301 /sourcecode/tbdev/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20
Redirect 301 /sourcecode/Template-Shares/ http://www.bvlist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=26 


[BirdOPrey5]

White pages on forum links or any page?

Have you checked the php error log?