301 Redirect a vbulletin thread?

[rbalsley]

Is it possible to 301 redirect a thread? Here's what I've tried so far:


redirect 301 /vb/showthread.php?t=6740 http://www.domain.com/subdirectory/index.html

And it doesn't seem to work.

I've even tried

redirect 301 /vb/showthread.php\?t=6740 http://www.domain.com/subdirectory/index.html

And that doesn't work either...

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Jake Bunce]

Here is a short guide I found in a Google search. Hopefully this helps.

http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/301-redirect.shtml

[rbalsley]

That's not quite what I was looking for (though I do know the guy who runs the site you linked to).

I've shown in my post that I know how to do the redirect, and with traditional pages that works fine. However, I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to do a redirect of a thread that is pointed by the showthread.php?t=xxxx.

[tgmorris]

It depends on which version of Apache you are running. I researched something similar a while ago and discovered that the '?' doesn't work with Apache 1.x.