I am converting my whole site. Php fusion to WP Php fusion forum to vBulletin The forum was in a directory site.com/forum and I want to put it in a subdomain now forum.site.com What can I do? 95% of my indexed pages are from my forum but if I am doing this conversion I will have new links and a new URL: Old forum profile pages: www.site.com/forum/profile=45.php (no nicknames just numbers) New forum profile pages: www.forum.site.com/members/nickname.php How can I do this redirection?
You need a 301 redirect. Just do a Google for "301 redirect". There are several ways to do this but if you are on a unix server the easiest would probably via .htaccess but you can also do it on a page by page basis with a simple script
Hi Mate, You need a IMPEX plugin for Vbulleting for transfering your forum data and members from PHP fusion to Vbulletin What 301 redirect is just for search engines since they are indexed so if some including search engines hits that old link they will be redirected to new pages, they wont transfer your data / members to Vbulletin You can get impex from vbulletin if you have a valid licence More info here :- http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex It describes the details import / export you need to do * Import usergroup * Import user * Import forum * Import thread * Import post * Import poll * Import Private messages * Import attachment You can also raise the Query to Vbulletin support and they will help you out Hope it helps
I've never worked w/vBulletin (or any other forum software) BUT what you should do is to come up with a way (preferably programatically, not manually) to build a cross-reference for EVERY old URL to its new URL. If you can create a cross-reference (old URL:new URL) then building the 301 redirects is a piece of cake with Mod_Rewrite. I did this recently when we imported thousands of articles into a new CMS. As part of the import process, we added a field called LegacyURL to the Article CMS item. Not only did we import the article, but also it's corresponding old URL. Once it was in the CMS, we exported Legacy URL and the new CMS URL to a .csv file and sucked it into Excel. I then wrote an Excel macro that built .htaccess files containing the necessary 301 redirects to redirect requests for the old URLs to its equivalent new CMS URL. You need to try to find some similar way to automate mapping old URLs to new URLs. If you can get that into Excel you can then automate generating the 301 redirects using a macro.
That is what I am going to use but I was talking about SEO and link redirects not the system. I asked what happens after I get the new links. Thanks anyway
301 redirect through .htaccess, do not do a permanent redirect from server hosting it will not work unless you do the 301 htaccess or do it directly through webmaster.google.com