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• Started 2 years ago by chandersbs
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Advanced 301 technique

1. • 
   • chandersbs
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   As some of you know, I migrated my forum from SMF to bbPress. This caused a lot of broken URLs that Google is now returning as 404 pages in my Google webmaster tools account.

   While analyzing on how to 301 all the old links, I discovered that bbPress took the existing topic id’s and patched that to the new URLS, e.g:
   domain/index.php?topic=270 became domain /topic.php?id=270
   domain/index.php?topic=200 became domain/topic.php?id=200

   Is there a way to redirect all old pages, to the new ones giving the old id’s to the new ones? Apart from creating a big ass list.
2. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Absolutely, you can edit your htaccess file to automatically rewrite the URLs using regular expressions:
   http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html#usingregularexpressions
3. • 
   • chandersbs
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you.

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