Hey everyone,

I converted my vbulletin forum to bbpress and everything works fine except the redirection of the old urls part.

I want to redirect old vbulletin urls to the new bbpress ones using .htaccess but i have no idea how to do it. I’m still new to URL redirection.

Old vBulletin URL:

http://www.forum.site.com/showthread.php?80-post-title

New bbPress URL:

http://www.site.com/forums/topic/post-title

Can anyone help me? I would really appreciate it.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years ago]

Firstly, I am currently looking for feedback on the vBulletin importer and there have been reports that users do not get imported correctly, did your users get imported correctly?

eg. Migrating vBulletin 4.0.4 to bbPress 2.2.3 and bug tracking ticket #1991.

What version of vBulletin and bbPress are you using?

I personally don’t have access to vBulletin so I haven’t been able to test much of anything relating to vBulletin basically so helping out with your .htaccess would also be a bit of hit and miss.

Stack Exchange has some great examples of rewrites

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.htaccess+mod-rewrite
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mod-rewrite

This is one of my favourites even though it is not specific to any of your needs here it is a good example of mod_rewrite regex rules.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4318171/how-to-regex-and-htaccess-rewrite-url

A couple of other resources to help along the way:

• htaccess tester
• An In Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache
• reFiddle regex expression testing

[@allenpayne Participant 12 years ago]

Hi Stephen. The bbpress built-in import tool didn’t work for me and paid the guys from gConverter.com to do it. They did a great job with the conversion and everything is working fine now.

Regarding the htaccess rules, i have no idea how to write them even after reading the resources you posted. So if there’s anyone here who can help, i would really appreciate it.

[@allenpayne Participant 12 years ago]

I posted my question on StackOverflow as well.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13920322/vbulletin-to-bbpress-conversion-how-can-i-redirect-the-old-urls-to-the-new-one

I have to find a solution fast because i’m currently losing a lot of SE traffic.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years ago]

Thanks for the info on importing from vBulletin.

Hopefully someone can help out with some rewrite rules for you soon.