404 / 301 Tool After Import Redirect on ImpEx imported forums

[eksodos]

Yep I have edited as instructed:

$standard_404     = 'http://www.mydomain.com/error/404.html';     // The usual 404 that this script replaces
$new_domain     = 'www.mydomain.com';   // Including domain extension such as www.example.com , donot include http://
$new_folder        = '';    // Without trailing slash
$ext_type        = '.php';         // File extension type that vBulletin is using, i.e. index.php including the preceding dot

// Database
// This is the vBulletin database, needed for import id look up and logging
$server         = 'localhost';
$user             = 'dbforums';
$password         = 'dbpassword';
$database         = 'dbname_com';
$tableprefix     = '';


$old_id         = intval($_GET['oldid']);
$page            = intval($_GET['page']);
$postcount        = intval($_GET['postcount']);
$action         = $_GET['action'];
$sql             = null;

In vbseocp.php I have the "File Not Found" requests handling?" set to:
/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/error/404.html

With the radio button checked: Include custom script

Regardless, whatever database settings I put above nothing happens. So I don't think the script is even being looked at at all?

[eksodos]

I've just tried this on a Plesk server running vB 3.8.2 and the same problem. vBulletin just completely ignores what's on the end of the index.php script and pulls up the forum homepage:

http://www.<ourdomain>.com/index.php?topic=2131.msg6715

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Make sure tha you added new rewrite rules to tto *top* of .htaccess (above vBSEO rewrite rules).

[eksodos]

Yep I have done that. This is the full contents of my .htaccess file with SMF rules:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} board=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule index\.php vbseo301.php?action=forum&oldid=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} topic=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule index\.php vbseo301.php?action=thread&oldid=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .msg([0-9]+)
RewriteRule index\.php vbseo301.php?action=post&oldid=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} action=profile;u=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule index\.php vbseo301.php?action=useaction=profile;u=r&oldid=%1 [L]


# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

For some reason, the rewrites to vbseo301.php just don't appear to be happening. It just shows the vBulletin forum home whatever old SMF URL is accessed.

If I enter bogus data into vbseo301.php such as wrong database, or username, it doesn't trigger any errors either.

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Please make sure within vBSEO Cp you have the followng settings

"File Not Found" requests handling? Send 404 HTTP code
Force Forum Root as Homepage? No
Define Homepage Aliases ? Empty

[eksodos]

Thanks for those suggestions!

I made those changes but it's still not loading the old content on URLS like: http://www.<ourdomain>.com/index.php?topic=2131.msg6715

Everything is still loading the forum homepage.

Obviously rewrite works otherwise vbSEO wouldn't be working.

This is blowing my mind

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Please open a ticket with ftp access for troubleshooting.

[eksodos]

Thanks Olga. I have submitted a ticket with the requested information. I hope you can get to the bottom of what I am doing wrong because I have honestly tried everything I can think of.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

An update:
I've added "vbseo301" to this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|vbseo301)

and it works now.

[eksodos]

It sure does work. Thanks so much for ending my nightmare.

[45Wheelgun]

We imported a large forum from EVE last month. I would love to have this work for us. Has anyone gotten it to run with an EVE import?

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Hello David ,

What is the old url examples within EVE

[45Wheelgun]

Individual forum http://www.oldforum.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/540103904
Thread http://www.oldforum.com/eve/forums/a...935/m/74710856
User http://www.oldforum.com/eve/personal?x_myspace_page=profile&u=615108163
Main forum list http://www.oldforum.com/eve/forums/

I had to play a bit to make it show up here, but I think I have it now. Does the fact that I did the transfer a month ago matter?

[aVirulence]

I'm having some problems with this as well. I'm now trying to get this to work on our test forum, but there seem to be some problems.

Old forum links:
Individual forum: forum/android-nieuws-f42/
Thread: forum/android-nieuws-f42/weer-update-t1235.html
Main forum list: forum/

Can anyone help me with the required .htaccess rules?

[crowdgather]

Would this work with vbulletin impex import? We are trying to merge a few forums without losing our SEO links, what sort of RW rules would be needed for that?

basically we have forum1.com and forum2.com

I want to dump forum1 into forum2 and not lose the forum1.com vbseo links. Both are vbulletin forums

Thanks!