Posted May 14, 201014 yr I have two questions. 1. I have seen it mentioned but cant find it on here, how do I set up the 301 redirects for my current set up to point to the ipboard install? I dont want to lose my currently indexed pages. 2. It is very important for me to have domain.com/username or at the very least domain.com/forum/username. I understand ipboard puts the userID number into the URL, but since vbulletin does not I dont want those links to die, plus for the type of site I am setting up it looks better. I have over 40,000 members and do not want each member having to remember their userID when they give their profile URL out. So basically this is a must for me. Any tips? Thanks guys. Otherwise awesomely informative website AWS, it is what got me interested in the conversion in the first place!
May 14, 201014 yr Administrators No links will die. IPB has all the tools you'll need included with the download to redirect the old urls. Al you'll need to do is setup rewrite rules to redirect the vbseo urls to the standard vbulletin urls. IPB will do the rest.
May 14, 201014 yr Author No links will die. IPB has all the tools you'll need included with the download to redirect the old urls. Al you'll need to do is setup rewrite rules to redirect the vbseo urls to the standard vbulletin urls. IPB will do the rest. How do I do this? I thought I had to set vbSEO to forward to the old vbulletin links and then set those to forward to the ipboard links. That is where I am lost, Im not sure how to do this. And also, so, is it possible to have domain.com/forum/username instead of domain.com/forum/userID-username?
May 19, 201014 yr How do I do this? I thought I had to set vbSEO to forward to the old vbulletin links and then set those to forward to the ipboard links. That is where I am lost, Im not sure how to do this. And also, so, is it possible to have domain.com/forum/username instead of domain.com/forum/userID-username? Yes ... search at vBseo for uninstall and you get the rewrite rule to redirect to vB default urls. In the IPB Conversion tools you'll have a showthread.php a forumdisplay.php (and some other fiels) that you must upload to the same folder where vB were. Configure it and let it do the work for you :) And also, so, is it possible to have domain.com/forum/username instead of domain.com/forum/userID-username? I don't think so.
June 4, 201014 yr Author Can anyone else help me with setting up domain.com/forum/username without the user number in the URL?
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