Has anyone successfully replicated the SEO links (VBSEO) from VB4 to VB5?

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Has anyone successfully replicated the SEO links (VBSEO) from VB4 to VB5?

Tue 18 Mar '14, 3:19am

We have a new license for VB5 and have made the upgrade few days ago. We used VBSEO to re-write our URLs and keeping them the same (or getting a good redirection going on) is very important. we're talking a big board that needs the links to work properly. As of now they are messed up. Has anyone here successfully redirected the links or had VB5 show them properly? Are we gonna lose our link structure with the upgrade (we're testing it separately, the live forum is still on VB4).
Looking forward to any hints/experiences.
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Tue 18 Mar '14, 4:13am

I haven't seen anyone do this.

However, vB4 URLs should redirect to the new vB5 URLS, so in theory, you could use the vBSEO instructions to rewrite their URLs back to standard vB4 ones. Then they ought to redirect.

I've no way of testing this though.

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