Custom Rewrite Help

Hi. I'm having trouble doing a custom rewrite (I've never done it before). Basically, I want all instances of this:
MIG Performance Vauxhalls

changed to this:
MIG Performance Vauxhalls

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Mike,

As far as I understand, do you want to apply a redirect from http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=106 to http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/misc.php?do=form&fid=1 ?

If so, you can apply the following Custom Redirect on vBSEO CP:

'^newthread\.php\?do=newthread&f=106$'=>'misc.php? do=form&fid=1'

Brilliant - that works perfectly!! Thanks for the very quick reply.

Great!

Quick correction, it is the 'Custom Rewrite Rules' this needs adding to, not the 'Custom Redirects' rules. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Andrés Durán Hewitt

If so, you can apply the following Custom Redirect on vBSEO CP:

'^newthread\.php\?do=newthread&f=106$'=>'misc.php? do=form&fid=1'

the custom redirect is the correct spot. You aren't rewriting anything... you're moving the destination via redirect.

There are differences among a Custom Redirect and a Custom Rewrite Rule. A Custom Redirect is merely a *redirection*, while a Custom Rewrite Rule is a way to "disguise" a given URL *using* the data supplied on it through regular expressions that match a given pattern within a string.

I mean, with a Custom Rewrite Rule you can transform a dinamic URL like this one:

Code:

http://www.example.org/articles/view.php?articleid=7328&page=4&action=print

to something like:

Code:

http://www.example.org/articles/article-7328/page4-print.html

You see the difference?.

The regex you entered in "Custom Rewrite Rules" area worked because a redirect is needed to transform an URL.