vBulletin 4.x Redirect forum links to real forum links

[Hendricius]

I am having a problem where it shows links like "http://www.go-audi.com/f38/" I do not use any forum names like that. The set up with the forums is different on my site. How can I forward those links to the real URLs, is there an option for this?

-Hendrik

[Hendricius]

Anyone?

[Mert Gökçeimam]

Changing URL structure is not suggested . Once you change your structure , all your indexed urls will loose their rankings.

[Hendricius]

Yep, I would just need to redirect the URLs google has in the index to the actual URLs.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello Hendrik,

You can try using these rules in your .htaccess file, right after "RewriteEngine On":

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/index([0-9]+)\.html$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=forumdisplay.php&f=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=forumdisplay.php&f=$1 [L]

The first one is a rule to redirect pagination forum URLs, and the second one does redirect common forum URLs with no pagination.

Please let us know if that is what you were looking for.