Changing forum URLS

[svtsnake03]

Previously, I had my SEO'd URLS formatted like this.

http://www.domainname.com/forums/forumname/threadtitle - threadid.html

I have now changed them all to this.

http://www.domainname.com/forums/f1/threadtitle - threadid.html

F1 = Forum ID.

All the old URLs are broken. Is there an easy way for me to fix this?

I am not very proficient with vBSEO, but I am learning. I had someone set it up for me, back when it was in early beta stages.

Thanks

Eric

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

it is strongly suggested *not* to change URL formats since that will cause all your URLs to be reindexed in search engines.

You can redirect old thread URLs by adding this in .htaccess right after "RewriteEngine on" line:

RewriteRule ^[^/]+[^0-9]/.+-([0-9]+)\.html vbseo.php?vbseourl=showthread.php&t=$1 [L]