404 / 301 Tool After Import Redirect on ImpEx imported forums

[project-buckfast]

Thank you Brian. Unfortunatly I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Would you be able to provide a sample .htaccess that I could look at?

So I would place the .htaccess in the old domains root folder and the php file in the new domains forum folder?

[Brian Cummiskey]

very simply... on old domain

RewriteEngine On

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

[project-buckfast]

That's great thank you!

So the above redirects to my new domain, then the script in the first post kicks in. Correct?

If so, your a genius and have saved my bacon as I've already begun the merge!

P.S thanks for your paitence. This is my first merge, I'm trying to be extra careful to insure it goes smoothly!

[Brian Cummiskey]

Yup, thats the concept. good luck.

[project-buckfast]

Worked perfect. Thanks alot.

If I upgraded to vB4 now, would this still function correctly?

[Brian Cummiskey]

Yes. I would suggest waiting a bit though. Too many movements all at once can send serach engines confused.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello everyone.

I'm working on a migration from SMF to vB 3.8.4. After I installed vBSEO, I set the script vbseo301.php and the rules in the .htaccess file, but when redirected, leading to a blank page. Can you say me what's happening?

I also had this problem:

But whenever an old SMF URL is accessed it just shows the forum homepage.

It appears the .htaccess settings are being ignored completely with vbSEO active on the site. So maybe it's overriding something?

I followed the advice of Oleg, and handed the matter of the blank page.

P.s: I'm working in Comunidad Underground Hispana - Powered by vBulletin, a licensed forum.

Regards

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello everyone.

I'm working on a migration from SMF to vB 3.8.4. After I installed vBSEO, I set the script vbseo301.php and the rules in the .htaccess file, but when redirected, leading to a blank page....

Should I open a ticket using the Licensed Account?

[Brian Cummiskey]

Make sure the rules in the htaccess file are at the top of the file, directly above the sitemap rule is generally the place for pre-vbseo processing. If they are at the bottom, they will not work correctly.

If you're getting blank pages, it could also be a memory_limit reach. Make sure your php.ini file is set to at least 32M for memory_limit.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello Brian.

Thanks for your support. At the end of the day, I had to edit a couple of rules, now works fine!

Thanks again

[wjkingsnorth]

I recently moved my forum from one domain to another. I am not sure that this will work for me since I deleted my old database. Right now I have a redirect code on my old index.php file at the old domain. Is there anyway to make this work since I deleted the old database? I am a new customer and don't know much about SEO. Thats why I bought vbseo. The old domain was in existance for about 8 years. I used IMPEX to move the forum to the new domain.

[Mert Gökçeimam]

This tool only works if you imported your forum from another forum software like Phpbb , IPB etc... If you still keep your imported table please supply us example thread and forum urls you were using before so we can assist you.

[GIORGINO]

I have followed all the procedure... but

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Please explain us detailed which steps you applied so we can assist .

[GIORGINO]

Please explain us detailed which steps you applied so we can assist .

Thank you Mert

My old phpBBSeo URL are like this:
www.example.it

No redirection at this time :((

Wich rules I have to add to my htacess?