Hello
I'm looking at converting my forum to MyBB, however the thing that prevents me from converting is the fact that the vBSEO links I have in my vB will all be lost.
MyBB needs to have a system where you can 301 redirect the vBSEO links to the MyBB counterparts.
eg:
forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/noticeboard/1863-nearing-10-000-post-mark.html -> forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/thread-1863.html
I think your larger issue would be the merge system changes the topic and post ids.
I don't really see any reason for MyBB to provide a service to redirect URLs from another software to their own. just set up redirects yourself if you need them that badly.
(2010-10-04, 07:20 PM)euantor Wrote: [ -> ]I don't really see any reason for MyBB to provide a service to redirect URLs from another software to their own. just set up redirects yourself if you need them that badly.
IPB does it, why can't MyBB?? And I'm not that big an expert in setting my own redirects.
Yeah, but imaging the amount of work it would take. I guess it would be possible using a sitemap to grab all the URLs in one go and redirect them to stock mybb ones so long as the TIDs were carried over.
IDK, I don't think it's necessary - I'm doing fine since converting from vB just yesterday.
(2010-10-04, 07:23 PM)Kyuubi Wrote: [ -> ]IPB does it, why can't MyBB??
answer to this is almost always "IPB are paid to do it, MyBB is free and has far more limited resources"
This is something that's being discussed internally but it's unlikely to be implemented anytime soon.
Making the Merge System stable and adding new modules is the priority at the moment.
Would be nice, but would require a lot of code rewrites.
I'm looking into this. Would this work for themes (then we assume the next rule rewrites it to the MyBB HTML line or Google SEO line)?
RewriteRule http://forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/noticeboard/([0-9]+)$$2 http://forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=$1 [R]1
(2010-10-04, 09:10 PM)-AW- Wrote: [ -> ]I'm looking into this. Would this work for themes (then we assume the next rule rewrites it to the MyBB HTML line or Google SEO line)?
RewriteRule http://forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/noticeboard/([0-9]+)$$2 http://forum.hpcommunity.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=$1 [R]1
As has been stated in all the other recent threads about this:
It isn't that simple because it is a
Merge System, not a Convert System, and so the thread and post IDs in point of fact, change. Before the Merge System removes the extra columns that contain the original tid/pid from the old board from the MyBB database, the Merge System would need to write a fairly large .htaccess (with an entry for every single already existing thread and post) to perform the redirections. If it was a 1:1 convert system then yes, this would be fairly trivial.