VB 4 to 5 & VBseo

[Replicant]

Originally Posted by t-h-c

Excellent thank you very much bridge2heyday it worked!!

Final problem though...as this is on a main domain ie domain.com/forum how do we prevent it creating /forum/forum, I noticed even does this on VB site this is the final hurdle.

You can change the URL in site builder for each. I did this on my forum. It may seem like a lot of work, but after you have done a few, they go quickly. I think I have like 60 forums and sub forums and it took like 1 - 1 1/2 hours to change all the urls.

[bridge2heyday]

Originally Posted by Replicant

That would be the urlident column in the node table. It contains the hyphenated version of the text portion of the url and can be used successfully many times to compare to seo pretty urls.....

Exactly

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Replicant

That would be the urlident column in the node table. It contains the hyphenated version of the text portion of the url and can be used successfully many times to compare to seo pretty urls.....

Ah, that's specific to vB5. I'm not really familiar with that version. For vB4 I would stick to my royally screwed thesis, though

[bridge2heyday]

Originally Posted by t-h-c

Excellent thank you very much bridge2heyday it worked!!

Final problem though...as this is on a main domain ie domain.com/forum how do we prevent it creating /forum/forum, I noticed even does this on VB site this is the final hurdle.

Thanks ,
you have something installed in the root of your site ?
and you have your forum installed in sub directory /forum ?
anyway,
I will give you a scenario where I have forums installed in subdir /forums

assume you have domain www.domain.com
and vbulletin at www.domain.com/forums

in your admincp change vBulletin URL to www.domain.com instead of www.domain.com/forums
and then use this .htaccess

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forums/$1 


Tricky but working fine

Note : this will not work if your directory is /forum , you can rename in that case

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Originally Posted by cellarius

Ah, that's specific to vB5. I'm not really familiar with that version. For vB4 I would stick to my royally screwed thesis, though

Yes , we are in vb5 discussion forum

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by bridge2heyday

Yes , we are in vb5 discussion forum

True, however your question was about vB4 to vB5, so somewhat relevant to vB4 as well.

[bridge2heyday]

Originally Posted by Paul M

True, however your question was about vB4 to vB5, so somewhat relevant to vB4 as well.

You are right , but this wasn't my question

[t-h-c]

Originally Posted by bridge2heyday

Thanks ,
you have something installed in the root of your site ?
and you have your forum installed in sub directory /forum ?
anyway,
I will give you a scenario where I have forums installed in subdir /forums

assume you have domain www.domain.com
and vbulletin at www.domain.com/forums

in your admincp change vBulletin URL to www.domain.com instead of www.domain.com/forums
and then use this .htaccess

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forums/$1 


Tricky but working fine

Note : this will not work if your directory is /forum , you can rename in that case

--------------- Added [DATE]1466173770[/DATE] at [TIME]1466173770[/TIME] ---------------


Yes , we are in vb5 discussion forum

Thanks a ton for the advice! although just ran into a final issue....after we updated VB url from domain.com/forums (VB installed dir) to domain.com i am not able to access to admincp and the forum breaks (links to css and images dont work) do you have any ideas? thank you

[bridge2heyday]

This rule should be in root .htaccess not vbulletin .htaccess

[karlm]

Originally Posted by bridge2heyday

Well , this will require one or two file edits
in file 'includes/vb5/frontend/routing.php'
line 239 just before throwing

PHP Code:

throw new vB5_Exception_404("invalid_page_url"); 


I have made some work
I used $path variable , exploded it and got the last element .. then queried node table for urlident equal to this value .
if true .. this returns node id
Then

PHP Code:

$url = vB_Api::instanceInternal('route')->getAbsoluteNodeUrl($id); header('Location: ' . $url, true, 301);exit; 


I did this for a client who converted from smf with pretty URLs and working fine
I will post the full code when I have access to my home PC tomorrow.
Note : if the URL doesn't end with '/' you have to do additional work in includes\api\interface\collapsed.php'

Would you mind elaborating on the last portion of your above quote? I had VBSEO on VB4 and it worked like a charm, inc. all the extra toys it gave - such a shame they folded up

Anyway, I had a url alike to: http://mysite.com/forum-name/thread-title-123.html

i.e. there was no trailing /

[RichieBoy67]

##Just something to think about:

The rewrites will redirect people who find your old urls to your new ones but will do nothing for seo and may actually do harm. I believe the best method for seo would be a permanent 301 redirect.

If you want an easy solution DragonByte Seo would work and will add all the redirects, etc. I do not believe they have a version for Vb5 yet though.