reverting back, removing vbseo rewrites

Although I have no complaints, I want to revert back to not using vbseo. Is this easy to do, without turning all my indexing into dead links?? ? To rewrite back? How do I do this? But, I still want to use vbseo, because I love some of the other features. I just don't want to use their forum url rewrites anymore.

Hello Chris,

The rules you are going to place on your vBSEO custom redirects module/.htaccess depend on your URL rewrite settings. I saw that you are using preset #1.

As there's no forum ID present on the URL, you'll need to create a single redirect for each of the subforums that exist on your site:

I recommend Custom Redirects:

'^main-forum/$' => 'forumdisplay.php?f=2'

Where the 2 is the forum ID.

If you do have multiple pages on a forum, an extra rule is required:

'^main-forum/index(\d+)\.html$' => 'forumdisplay.php?f=2&page=$1'

Where the $1 var stores the value of (\d+).

For showthread pages, you can try these rules:

'^.+/(\d+)-.+-(\d+)\.html$' => 'showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2'
'^.+/(\d+)-.+\.html$' => 'showthread.php?t=$1'

Hey thanks,

I understand this now

'^main-forum/$' => 'forumdisplay.php?f=2'

Where the 2 is the forum ID.

For the threads, if I just add this to my .htaccess:

'^.+/(\d+)-.+-(\d+)\.html$' => 'showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2'
'^.+/(\d+)-.+\.html$' => 'showthread.php?t=$1'

Is this all I need to add and where do I put this (line)?

Also, if I want to use vb4 rewrites in time, will I be able to do this?

You need to ask vBulletin related questions to vBulletin support.

my forum structure was:

http://domain.tld/t12345

and http://domain.tld/f12

how to revert them ?

Hi Andy,

Next time, please open up a new thread. Try:

RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)/$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]