[mirce]

Hello,

I do not know if I can ask for paid help in here but I am really having a hard time to switch my forum from pHpBB to bbPress and I do not know who can help me.

My forum http://www.weight-loss-forums.com/ is on pHpBB. I really can not manage the spam I get. I wan to switch to bbPress but also keep the actual link structure:

Topic: http://www.weight-loss-forums.com/about2364.html

Forum: http://www.weight-loss-forums.com/forum-25.html

Please let me know if anyone can help me.

Thanx.

[fel64]

No official rules, but going by what I remember from the WP forums: no.

What have you tried? Got a phpBB -> bb converter? Does it work?

The link structure shouldn’t be a problem, you just need some custom rules in your .htaccess which someone can probably help with.

[Trent Adams]

Asking for paid support in a support forum is a no-no. I can suggest that you leave your contact information and then I can close the thread and/or drop a line over at the paid support list at:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Professional

I know that is WP list, but there are people that might help there as well.

Trent

[mirce]

Sorry about this but I really want to use bbPress.

I can convert the DB but only changing the .htaccess rules will not help.

I need a modification to function get_topic_link from bb-includes/template-functions.php and function bb_repermalink() from bb-includes/functions.php

Hacking the template-functions.php and creating the link is easy but bb_repermalink is always 301 redirect me to the root because the link function is not created right.

[Sam Bauers]

I imagine the only obstacle to changing your link structure is existing links in the forums. Perhaps you should consider using mod_rewrite rules to simply convert the existing link structure to standard bbpress format, then going forward you can just use standard bbpress style permalinks.

All this would/should take is a few lines on a .htaccess file.

[mirce]

Are you talking on doing a 302 from domain.com/about*.html to domain.com/bbpres_slugs?

How can this be done?

[Sam Bauers]

No guarantees about this one….

Add this to an .htaccess file in the base of your bbPress installlation.

You will need to modify where specified.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase <<Insert real path to your installation>>



RewriteRule ^about([0-9]+).html(.*)$ <<Insert real path to your installation>>topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+).html(.*)$ <<Insert real path to your installation>>forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

[mirce]

Thanx,

I’ll try this and see how it works.

So basically this should transform the about*.html links to topic.php?id=$1.

Might work…

Thanx.