URL change forum specific

[Eagle Eyes]

Hello i have a established forum with urls like example.com/f17/tiltle-334.php and i want it to be exmaple.com/forumtiltle/titles-343.php

If i make the change through vbseo would it direct the f17 url to forumtitle url?

THanks.

[Brian Cummiskey]

AS long as the thread ID is the same, threads will auto-301.
forums will not and a rule will need to be created for it.

[Eagle Eyes]

Can you please help me with that rule?

Thank you.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello,

It is not recommendable to change forum URLs format on already established forums as this will create more issues than benefits. You can loose valuable incoming links and ranking on SE's.

However, if you still want to proceed, the following custom ruleset should do the trick:

#Showthread pages (with pagination)
RewriteRule ^f[0-9]+/.+-([0-9]+)/index([0-9]+)\.html$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=showthread.php&t=$1&page=$2 [L]

#Showthread pages
RewriteRule ^f[0-9]+/.+-([0-9]+)/$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=showthread.php&t=$1 [L]

#Forumdisplay pages (with pagination)
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/index([0-9]+)\.html$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=forumdisplay.php&f=$1&page=$2 [L]

#Forumdisplay pages
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=forumdisplay.php&f=$1&page=$2 [L]

Please keep in mind that by leaving the forum ID in the URL, you get some extra performance as it saves a query to your database.

[Eagle Eyes]

URLs are not redirecting to the old URLs, when i applied the above code in forums/.htaccess and switched to Default Settings URLs from vBseo Settings Urls

[Eagle Eyes]

AS long as the thread ID is the same, threads will auto-301.

At least threads links should have worked but they didn't either.

Waiting for a response.

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Thread links are auto redirected if they are in same forum. They can't be auto redirected as they have an actual forum name. If that forum name doesn't have id , they there will no auto redirect.

[Eagle Eyes]

My question is how do i have a redirect after switching from vBseo URL settings to Default settings in vbseo?

So i can convert

f17/343-thraedtitle.html to
forum-name/343-threadtitle.html

[Eagle Eyes]

Can i get a reply on the above post?

[Eagle Eyes]

This is very important for me. Please let me know how to do this.

URL change forum specific

[Mert Gökçeimam]

We already supplied how to redirect your traffic from forum x to y.

[Eagle Eyes]

I applied the code to .htaccess but it didn't work.

I am basically changing the URL rewrite settings, not redirecting forums.

I just want to be able to redirect threads like
f17/343-threadtitle.html to
forum-name/343-threadtitle.html

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello,

You shouldn't do this, but if you still want to proceed please supply us an example URL that'll need to be redirected (I don't see on your site any thread using this format [f17/343-threadtitle.html] where f17 is the forum ID and 343 is the thread ID).

[Eagle Eyes]

My mistake, it is actually suppose to be from

f7/thread-title-8003/

to

forum-name/5791-thread-title.html

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Not a problem.

Please try the rules in post #4.