vBulletin 4.x Archive 301/Rewrite Settings - 301 not working for forum pages

[Fender963]

I currently have Vbulletin archive enabled. It gets a large amount of traffic so rather than simply shutting it off, I am attempting to 301 all archive traffic to the full version. In VBSEO -> General Settings -> VB's Archive Options I've tried setting "301 Redirect vB's Archive Thread Pages" and "Rewrite + 301 Redirect Archive Pages". Both only seem to 301 the thread pages, not the forum pages.


In other words

http://www.myforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-23.html

does not get 301'ed, but

http://www.myforum.com/forums/archiv.../t-217167.html

gets 301 correctly to:

http://www.myforum.com/forums/forumname/217167-threadname.html

Any thoughts?

[Brian Cummiskey]

This is how it is designed. The forum list is still on the archive structure.

[Fender963]

Is there an easy way to work around this and 301 the forum pages to their full version?

[Brian Cummiskey]

No, that is not how it was designed. If you don't get much traffic to the archive, i would recommend just disabling it entirely. It's simply not needed with vbseo.

[Fender963]

Yeah thats the problem. I do get quite a bit of traffic to the archive forum pages. Looks like I will have to setup quite a few manual 301s.