We currently have a an active vBulletin 3.8 forum and are in the process of upgrading to VB5. We also had VBSEO installed to re-write the URLS. There are many internal links and we don't want these to break when we update to the new version. I did have a look at some .htaccess options that would revert back to the original URL format, however these don't seem to be working.
The format currently in place is: domain.com/forumdirectory/PostID-post-title.html and I see that the new (built in rewrite) is: domain.com/forumdirectory/forum/topic-name/PostID-PostTitle
I need some help setting up the .htaccess file, so that the original internal links will open the correct post. In addition, the "forumdirectory" for the live site will need to change to the new directory where we have our development version. This is so that once we have migrated all the posts to VB5, we can then load from the new forum with the URL style: domain.com/forum/topic-name/PostID-PostTitle.
There may be questions regarding the migration, this is a long story and involves the integration of Social Engine with version 3.8 and we are dropping SE and merging the data from there, into VB 5.
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated, as I am not that familiar with writing .htaccess files and redirects.
Many thanks
Hans
The format currently in place is: domain.com/forumdirectory/PostID-post-title.html and I see that the new (built in rewrite) is: domain.com/forumdirectory/forum/topic-name/PostID-PostTitle
I need some help setting up the .htaccess file, so that the original internal links will open the correct post. In addition, the "forumdirectory" for the live site will need to change to the new directory where we have our development version. This is so that once we have migrated all the posts to VB5, we can then load from the new forum with the URL style: domain.com/forum/topic-name/PostID-PostTitle.
There may be questions regarding the migration, this is a long story and involves the integration of Social Engine with version 3.8 and we are dropping SE and merging the data from there, into VB 5.
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated, as I am not that familiar with writing .htaccess files and redirects.
Many thanks
Hans
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