Miscellaneous Hacks - 404 / 301 after import redirect on import ids

After importing from a source board there will be internal and external links that point to the old URLS.

During the import the origional import id's are kept (for one import) so a redirect can be calculated to find the new user/forum/thread/post, by looking up the old import{$type}id.

ImpEx currently alters the table to add the import id, though a planned future version will have this separated so multi-import sites can be managed,

The original discussion thread on vBulletin.com :

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178161

It is advised that $do_404 = false; is set so the 301 is sent with the new URL to update search engines.

The script needs setting up and customising to each site as the domains and URLs can be different.

[paintballer.ie]

Hi,

This is what I am looking for, i am about to convert over to vb from phpbb2.

Are these steps still correct for vb 3.8.1

[lazydesis]

I imported from old vB to new version using Impex, and had the same problem. All threadIDs were different from what they were in my old forum, because I deleted some threads in between.

However instead of using the 404 method, I deleted the "threadid" column in my database and renamed the "importthreadid" column as "threadid"

Now all my threads are having same "threadid" as previous forum

Can anyone tell me if this has any adverse affects or what I did is wrong? Everything seems to working fine and it took me just 5 mins to do this.

What's the advantage of using the 404 method described in this thread?

Thanks.

EDIT: Its actually not working properly. Can someone tell me if its possible to change the new ids with the ones in the importids column and would this work ?

[project-Buckfas]

Any help with the code for smf 1.x.x ?

I'm hoping to go live with my vb soon as I'm pretty much done customising it

[paintballer.ie]

Originally Posted by cooltechie

I'm sorry. What exactly do I do? Just edit paths and copy the 404.php to the root and that's it? Please provide more details. Thanks!

yes, more info please. I saw raference to a readme.txt what was made, but could not find it.


what does one do with the lines below, as it says to customise?

PHP Code:

$old_id         = 0;
$action_code    = 0;
$action         = null;
$sql             = null;
$page            = null;
$postcount        = null;

// Get the file names and types 


[paintballer.ie]

I have phpbb2 installed in the root folder and I will be instaling vbulletin in the root folder,

Will this work?

[paintballer.ie]

When I try this is redirects to the normal 404.shtml file I have.

Then in debug mode:

Action ::
SQL ::
REQUEST_URI :: /vbtest/404.php

Any thoughts?

[b00k]

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[ranz]

i like this mod - even if it is "unsupported"

i've been thinking -

perhaps it may also be useful if (in addition to the logging) we could make use of the moderator queue or report post. this way the mods can edit the posts, refer to the notes of the mod queue which shows the link to the new database id - then edit the post and release from the queue.

this could potentially alleviate the extra db load this script is using on the server.

another option is to provide an admincp script that lists the log - which can be used to edit posts.

[45wheelgun]

Has anyone used this in a move from EVE to VB? It seems like it is pretty straight forward, I am just unclear where these variables go:

Forum http://www.oldforum.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/540103904
Thread http://www.oldforum.com/eve/forums/a...04/m/241103031
User http://www.oldforum.com/eve/personal...e&u=4131095313
Main http://www.oldforum.com/eve/

Can anyone give me a hand or point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Dave

[final kaoss]

I can use one for MyBB 1.4