Redirect problem

A while back I deleted some subforums. Now I need to redirect one of those to a new forum, but I only have the non-vbseo version of the old URL. I tried doing a 301 redirect via .htaccess, but I think somewhere redirecting from a non-vbseo URL to a vbseo URL it got confused.

How can I safely redirect from a non-vbseo URL to a vbseo URL?

You can put this in .htaccess right after RewriteEngine on line:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} f=XX
RewriteRule forumdisplay.php http://www.domain.com/newurl [L,R=301]

where XX is your old forum ID.

I appreciate that, but it didn't change anything. With or without it, my "Invalid Forum Specified" page has an URL ending in /forums/a/

The URL I need to redirect ends with /forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=142

What is your full .htaccess contents now?

Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?retouchpro.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|png|gif|bmp|zip|mov|psd|tif)$ - [NC,F]
ErrorDocument 403 /index.php
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
ErrorDocument 500 /index.php
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

This seems to be root .htaccess, not forums/ one? Also, make sure that you have rewrite rule mentioned above in it.

Ok, I added the following to my /forums .htaccess, right after the RewriteEngine line, but got exactly the same results as before (ie: no change):

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} f=142
RewriteRule forumdisplay.php Hidden Power Support - RetouchPRO [L,R=301]

(this forum is rewriting my quote, that should just be the URL to where I want that old forum to redirect to)

Can you provide ftp access via support ticket to check that?

Ticket submitted

For the forumid=XX the rewritecond line should be changed to:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} forumid=142

Thank you, works great now. I guess that's an ancient style forum URL.