$10 for whoever solves simple mod rewrite problem

To make a long story short. I need all http://carcommons.com/archive/*****.htm to become http://carcommons.com/*****.htm . There a little twist though. I need to add something into the URL because the current mod rewrite isn't doing it.

http://carcommons.com/archive/chevy-250292-exhaust-manifold-5384.htm needs to become
http://carcommons.com/chevy-250292-exhaust-manifold-vt5384.htm

I had a archive mod installed (PhpBB) but its no longer working. Yet google index nearly 8,000 pages of them which now come up blank. I'm loosing a few hundered vistors an hour. Any help is appericated. Let me know if you need any more info.

Paypal of course or a PR 4 Sitewide (12,000 pages) for a month.

 

Hi i had the same kind of problem before. I had old links still indexed like forum.mydomain.com. I used this mod rewrite to fix it. Im not sure if this is what you are asking but my intentions are good.

 

how about

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^archive/(.*)$ /$1

 

Ok all I need to do is figure out how to add the vt in my variable.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule [.]*-vf([0-9]*) viewforum.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&f=$1
RewriteRule [.]*-vp([0-9]*) viewtopic.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&p=$1
RewriteRule [.]*-vt([0-9]*) viewtopic.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&t=$1
RewriteRule ^.+\.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^.+\.htm*$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^member-.+\.html*$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^members.+$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ index.php [L]

Any ideas

 

sorry I didn't notice you replied.. have you fixed it yet?

 

Nope, at this point I got the archive working but not the links google has already indexed (a good 10k). Hoping to get this mod working: http://www.webmedic.net/rc6-error-mod-098-rc6-vp30338.html

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^chevy-250292\-exhaust\-manifold\-vt5384\.htm$ archive/chevy-250292-exhaust-manifold-5384.htm [L]

or

RewriteRule ^chevy\-(.*)\-exhaust\-manifold\-vt(.*)\.htm$ archive/chevy-$1-exhaust-manifold-$2.htm [L]


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