Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs Issue

[Asad993]

Hello,

I was using vBulletin 4.4.2 on Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs with follwing rewrite .htaccess file.

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.4
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798

RewriteEngine On

### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED

RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php

### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^desilinks\.co$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.desilinks\.co$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/desilinks\.co.in" [R=301,L]

and I've upgraded my forum to vBulletin 5, and the new .htaccess has completely different Rewrite Rule. So all old URLs indexed in search engine are going to old URLs. As there any way to fix this issue ??

Regards

[Zachery]

The vB4 urls will be caught and redirected to the new vB5 urls.