redirect old vb4 links - issue with htaccess

**Dzi13** · Mon 10 Jun '13, 2:59am

generaly how to rewrite old vb4 links?

For example I wan't to redirect old url www.site.com/forum/url-old to www.site.com/forum/. How can I do this without geting link with ?routestring= after (I want old links redirect to forum homepage)?

**BirdOPrey5** · Mon 10 Jun '13, 1:39pm

Rather than messing with the htaccess file, you would be better off with a custom 404 error page the redirects everyone to your site.com/forum/ page- this way if they enter ANY URL that doesn't exist they get brought to your forum homepage.

**Dzi13** · Mon 10 Jun '13, 10:42pm

How?

I added to my htaccess file: ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

and created 404.html file but I still get vbulletin page with message "Invalid Page URL. If this is an error and the page should exist, please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message.".

I have more than 40.000 dead links from vb4. I want to redirect all error to home page. How to do that?

**BirdOPrey5** · Tue 11 Jun '13, 3:49am

You're right. I forgot VB5 shows its own error message.

This should have been fairly easy, and I was going to suggest in that case just adding a redirect to the error phrase displayed on the error page when a file doesn't exist.

However in my testing it turns out this isn't possible to what I believe to be a bug - http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-10300 - where HTML in the error message isn't treated as HTML.

So back to square 1, and I do not know how to change the htaccess file to do your custom forwarding, sorry.

**Dzi13** · Tue 11 Jun '13, 4:21am

Ok. I have done some coding and managed to redirect 404 errors but there should be some option or easier way in one of next vb releases.

redirect old vb4 links - issue with htaccess

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