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Worried about breaking links

This is a discussion on Worried about breaking links within the Pre-Sales Questions forums, part of the Announcements & Pre-Sales category; I have just upgraded from v3 to vBulletin v4. On vBulletin v3 I was using a custom SEO mod (tfSEO ...

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    Worried about breaking links

    I have just upgraded from v3 to vBulletin v4. On vBulletin v3 I was using a custom SEO mod (tfSEO i think) and I'm not using a custom .htaccess file to make sure that all of those old URLS redirect to the new vBulletin v4 urls.

    Code:
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine on
    
    RewriteRule ^(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)newpost(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$2&goto=newpost [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/post([0-9]+)(.*)$ showpost.php?p=$6 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4&page=$7 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)f(.*)/(.*)t([0-9]+)(.*)$ showthread.php?t=$4 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)f([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$4 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)-f([0-9]+)(.*)$ forumdisplay.php?f=$2 [QSA,L]
    So my question is if I install VBSeo will I still be able to use this htaccess for all of the old links to redirect to the new VBSeo friendly links.

    Thanks
    Sean

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    Yes, vbseo will automatically take the showthread url and redirect it to the final destination.

    so, you will have 2 sets of 301s.

    tfseo -> vb -> vbseo
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