Site Moving, Old URL Compatibility.

Hi.

I'm in the process of acquiring a large vB site. This will have to be relocated to a new domain.

The questions I have are:

Is there going to be a way I can get.

http://community.vbforumname.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

To redirect to:

http://community.newsitename.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Using htaccess etc. This is so the old google links will still work for a while. Then also what happens to the old links in google once I start using vbSEO and the URL is now:

http://community.newsitename.com/f8 etc

Hello ,

Yes you can easily create a redirect rule from old domain to new domain with .htaccess rule.

Original vBulletin urls are 301 redirected to new format.

something as:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-url\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-url\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteRule (.*) http://new-url.net/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]