migrate from IPB to VB

[rongshu]

Hi,

I have a IPB 2.16 forum and want to conver to VB. My only concern is the links. My board has been running for 3 years. So there are a lot of links posted by users in the post, such as http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=1234
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?showforum=11

So how the links going to be handled by VB after conversion? Will the previous links still work?

Thanks.

[Colin F]

ImpEx (the import software) has a tool that allows you to redirect the 404 errors that old links cause to the correct link in your vBulletin forum, so yes old links should still work.

[rongshu]

Hi, I bought VB. So I tried the 404.php redirect. It doesn't work as expected.

My old forum as mentioned is IPB. Threads links like http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=1234 are not redirected. I believe the 404.php doesn't help since both VB and IPB use index.php.

I have edited .htaccess as instructed.

Please advise!

[Colin F]

It seems IPB uses index.php for all it's pages.

You could try renaming the vBulletin index.php file to something like forum.php, and adjust the appropriate variable in your vBulletin Options.