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.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Absolutely, you can edit your htaccess file to automatically rewrite the URLs using regular expressions:

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html#usingregularexpressions

[@chandersbs Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Thank you.