Moving over from phpbb with rewritten urls

Hi,

Just bought vb and am looking at purchasing vBseo. I currently run phpbb (highly modded) and I need to remap all my existing urls from my phpbb installation. Is this going to be possible with your software?

Example urls:
http://www.mydomain.com/best-cms-software.t270.html This was a topic titled Best cms software.

TIA

Hello Tom,

yes, you'll be able to redirect all rewritten URL's. Just open a ticket (after purchase) and we'll provide you with the needed rules.

Just purchased Still waiting for my copy of vB as well

Hello Tom,

welcome to vBSEO.

It shouldn't take long till you'll be showing as an vBSEO Owner

Actually, when you import from phpBB to vBulletin, all your thread ID's will change, so your old URLs will be broken. Since we won't have a valid thread ID, we won't be able to redirect those old URLs.

I should add, that if you do find some way to make vBulletin/Impex retain your old ThreadID's, we can definately get those old URLs rewritten to the new ones.

Oh...ok i'm confused now. I thought it was going to be ok? How do i make sure the old thread ids are kept the same?

Like I mentioned, I don't think it's possible, unless Jerry over at vBulletin has changed the Impex import process to retain ThreadIDs. You will need to check with them to see if the ThreadIDs can be reatained. If not, there's no way to redirect the old URLs to the new URLs.

Reading the implex stuff earlier, i saw that it imports using an importthread and importuserid (or whatever they were called). Am i going to have to set up my own set of 301's to redirect all the old urls to the new ones? Would there be any kind of way to automated this?

If the old ThreadID is not used as the new ThreadID, you won't be able to do it without some major modifications to vBulletin in order to have it include the Imported ThreadID in the URL, which could then break vBSEO also.

The only way you will be able to do it cleanly is if the old ThreadID's are retained. Jerry over at vBulletin should be able to tell you if that's possible.

Hello Tom,

sorry I just overead that you need to do an import. Keith is right.

I'm so sorry.

edit:

If you want to cancel your order, I'm pretty sure that our sales team will find a way to do this, because you got a wrong answer.

Well i have installed and imported my phpbb. Excuse my ignorance, but how do i install this mod? Also if i am to be changing every url i had, how can i block the old style urls with robots.txt?

Ok mod installed, just don't have a license key...just says copy key in red, but just has email address there instead!

Hello Tom,

please open a support ticket with your vbseocp URL/password to resolve this issue.

Thanks!

The ONLY way new id's will match the phpbb id's is if you NEVER deleted a post, including the default "welcome" post that comes with the board installation.

There is a way to do it, and i thought about it, but its a LOT of work.

basically, you would need to take your posts table and forum table, and manually alter the table definitions to match that of vB's. that way you still have the exact same table index/auto_inc id numbers.

This may be a mod i build later on down the road... in like 2008 when i have free time. lol

alter the table, drop not used fields, add vb fields, re-name common fields to match vB names, update table fields that require different data (for example, permission fields may use a 1,0 VS a{i:} crap)