Using existing rewrite rules

Currently my forums have all forums and threads rewritten to things like

http://domain.com/f23
or
http://domain.com/t123.html

hence the .htaccess looks like
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^lastpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^newpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

(I'm using sitemaps)

My question is, will I be able to keep this rewrite rule while using vbseo? I currently have over 160,000 pages indexed in google and I certainly wouldn't want dead links. I understand the actual internal linking of the pages in the forums would change.

Basically, can you have two rewrite rules for one url?

Hello,

to setup a 301 redirection from these URLs to a new ones (and so keep them working), you should leave your current rewrite rules in .htaccess, but remove [L] part from them AND add rewrite rules from vBSEO's .htaccess to the bottom of resulting file.

In this way, your "old" URLs will be rewritten to vB original links with rewrite rules in .htaccess and then vBSEO will redirect them to new URLs.

Oh okay.

Also, are there any plans to move everything to open source? I much rather have everything on my own server.

Everything is on your own server. It's just encrypted.

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Everything is on your own server. It's just encrypted.

Why?

Why what?

why is it encrypted?

To protect their work, of course.

Originally Posted by tavenger5

Currently my forums have all forums and threads rewritten to things like

http://domain.com/f23
or
http://domain.com/t123.html

My question is, will I be able to keep this rewrite rule while using vbseo

That's exactly the principle behind the modifiable URLs . If you want to keep your current URL format, simply set the following via your vBSEO CP:

Forum URL Format

f[forum_id]

Thread URL Format

t[thread_id].html

It is that easy!

I'm just now getting into things since there was the sale.

Is there an easy way to keep the vbSEO urls AND the existing urls and not have the 301 redirect?

That would be bad in the eyes of the search engines.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello,

to setup a 301 redirection from these URLs to a new ones (and so keep them working), you should leave your current rewrite rules in .htaccess, but remove [L] part from them AND add rewrite rules from vBSEO's .htaccess to the bottom of resulting file.

In this way, your "old" URLs will be rewritten to vBulletin original links with rewrite rules in .htaccess and then vBSEO will redirect them to new URLs.

btw, I tried this and it didn't work. I know the templates are still edited to include the old URL's, but the point is that the 301 isn't working :

Main Forum - Forums (test forum)

That link works for me. What problem are you seeing?

see above, I edited as you were replying Try clicking on a thread.

ah, I figured it out. I had the old rewrite rules after the new vbSEO ones, hence they were trying to rewrite URL's that were already rewritten.