.htaccess -Redirecting Traffic to Main Content...

[nwingate]

Howdy Folks,

I run a vBulletin forum and I'm trying to turn off my archive and redirect traffic from my archive back to my main content.

The URLs that I'm moving are:

From:
www.site.com/archive/index.php/t-1244.html

To:
www.site.com/showthread.php?t=1244


I've tried a number of different things including

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^archive/index.php/([0-9]+)/$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301, L]

But non of them seem to work.


Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[dklynn]

Nat,

The problem that I see is the lack of correct regex. From your example URLs:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301, L]

The /? is to take care of both Apache 1.x and 2.x (they ARE different in how they treat the leading / in a {REQUEST_URI}

You omitted the t- and .html and added a trailing / in your regex. I've corrected the t- and .html and made the trailing / optional.

You CAN learn how to do this, too, with articles like the one linked in my signature (as well as find other examples/uses for mod_rewrite code).

Regards,

DK

[nwingate]

Thanks for the effort.
I added the config you gave me and it caused a error 500 server error. Not sure if I did something wrong. I just copied and pasted what you gave me to my .htaccess file.

Anyways, I'll keep looking and will check out your site. Thanks for the help.

Any other ideas?

[dklynn]

Nat,

Sorry, I copied your code and didn't check the flags. My mistake as there should NOT be a space in there!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

Regards,

DK

[nwingate]

hmmm.... now I get a 404 page not found?

[nwingate]

Here is the whole thing:

# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^siteurl\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.siteurl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

[dklynn]

nw,

First, please use [ code ] ... [ /code ] instead of a quote for your code as the quote is not repeated for me to respond to.

# -FrontPage-
THAT is a major part of any problem - ugh!  m$
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
protection
Options +FollowSymLinks
That should be in your httpd.conf
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^siteurl\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.siteurl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
I would have used [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine on
NO need to repeat!
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

If that doesn't find showthread.php, then showthread.php is not in the same directory as the archive directory (DocumentRoot).

Regards,

DK

[nwingate]

I'm not using Frontpage... I must have copied an .htaccess file from somewhere else. Anyways...

Your right that the files are in different locations. I'm doing the following
From:
www.site.com/archive/index.php/t-1244.html

To:
www.site.com/showthread.php?t=1244


I get a 404 with the code suggested. Thanks for the effort.

Anyone with a vBulletin forum out there that has turned off their archive and wanted to redirect the traffic to the main content? I can't believe I'm the first? I asked over at vbulletin.com and they had never done it before and had no help for me.

Here is an example of a page that I would want to move to the main content.

From:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archi.../t-142095.html

TO:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142095

Thanks

[dklynn]

Nat,

# Change
# RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
# to
RewriteRule ^/?forum/archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ forum/showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

Next time, SPECIFICITY, please, so we can get it right the first time.

Regards,

DK

[nwingate]

Well, I think you misread my post. I was just giving an example of a site that used vbulletin but my folder is not /forum/. I stated the correct location in the first post and so I'm not sure what specifics I left out?

Anyways, once I removed the forum folder location out of the code it worked. THANKS FOR THE HELP!


For future reference... If anyone has a vBulletin based forum and wishes to turn off the archive and 301 redirect back to the main content here is the code:

If your vbulletin install is in the root use this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ /showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/?archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ /forumdisplay.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

If your vbulletin install is in a /forum/ folder use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?forum/archive/index\.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ forum/showthread.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/?forum/archive/index\.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html/?$ forum/forumdisplay.php?t=$1 [R=301,L]

[dklynn]

Nat,

Thanks for that update!

Regards,

DK