Redirecting

Hi,

Yahoo and google have indexed alot of urls that go like:

www.domain.com/?t=1719&page=2

How do I redirect them to the vbseo url?

Thanks in advance

So basically they are indexing multi-page threads? I believe that vBSEO already rewrites this sort of URL, therefore you'll have to wait for Google and Yahoo! to update their indexes of your website.

Well, vbseo isn't rewriting these urls. I think yahoo/google have indexed these urls prior to vbseo.

emin,

all original vB URLs are automatically redirected by vBSEO if you have "301 Redirect Original Content" option set to "Yes" in vbseocp (enabled by default).

If you've got an URL indexed that is not redirected, please let me know an example and I will take a look

Hi,

For starters, all archive pages are not redirected:
www.islamicboard.com/archive/index.php/t-1283.html

even though I have set it on Rewrite + 301 Redirect vB's Archive

And for eg this page (from yahoo) is also not redirected:
www.islamicboard.com/?t=1719&page=2

I don't know how yahoo listed that url, that's not correct at all.. as technically that url is referencing www.islamicboard.com/index.php?t=1719&page=2

when it should be http://www.islamicboard.com/showthre...?t=1719&page=2.

That is why vBSEO isn't rewriting it.

You'll notice if you got to the second link I posted it gets rewritten correctly.

Yes, I know, however, I am still baffled how yahoo obtained that (weird) url.

Do you have a solution for the archive-redirection problem?

Thanks in advance

I checked your site just then and the achive redirects to the proper threads correctly for me.

No,

I am talking about the old archive urls like this:
http://www.islamicboard.com/archive/...hp/t-1283.html

They do not redirect to the correct one.

I think it's because you've got the archive rewritten as /archive/ instead.. try rewrite it to something else as I have a feeling it's conflicting with the old urls.

They should redirect to the proper threads though.

Hi, I am not getting you.

What should I rewrite exactly and where?

Login to your vbseocp and go down to "Rewrite Archive Root:" and choose a custom string like "/forumarchive/" or "forummap" or "sitemap".

Or something other then /archive/

I changed it to forumarchive but now when I go to my archive, the format is orumarchive instead of forumarchive and consequently it shows a no-page-found error.

Is there a slight posibility that my httpd.conf commands for archive are wrong? This is my current setup in httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} /(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.php)$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^/(archive/.*)$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1/index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ /vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

emin,

1.

www.islamicboard.com/?t=1719&page=2

I'm not sure why you have this URL indexed, but it doesn't correspond to thread view URL and is not a correct vB URL, that's why it is not redirected.

2.

http://www.islamicboard.com/archive/...hp/t-1283.html

This is simply because target thread (id# 1283) doesn't exists
http://www.islamicboard.com/showthread.php?t=1283

You can try other URLs, they're working fine, like:
http://www.islamicboard.com/archive/...hp/t-6153.html