Question Redirect OLD URL to new URL

[bienenf]

Hello Fillip,

For the previous issue on image not shown, I take time to reply because, we did the migration to php 5.4 CLI just beginning of this week. And that solves the issue. thank you.

I have an other request, how to configure the SEO for redirecting URL likes :

from old : 404 Not Found

to New : Aéro / Vol en immersion

we are loosing a lot of traffic due to this 404 error because we have plenty of this kind of URL change.

the only change we can handle is the forum.modelisme.com to www.modelisme.com/forum which works.

Thank you in advance for your support,
Yves

 

[Fillip H.]

When I click the "old" link, I'm not redirected to modelisme.com/forum - let me know once you've handled that redirect so that we can begin work on redirecting your old forum URLs to the new.

For the record, I would strongly advise you do not change your forum URLs to remove the forum ID. Doing so harms performance, and may cause problems in the future if you use two forums with the same forum name (or forum names that become the same SEO URL).

 

[bienenf]

Thank you for your quick reply,

The Only redirect in place which I am able to do now is : forum.modelisme.com to www'.modelisme.com

for the history of our URLs :

We started with the old URL forum.modelisme,com and then go with VBSEO to transform the URL as www',modelisme.com/forum. this was on a 301 redirection. it was like that for 5 years.

Now we go with Vbulletin 4.2 and removed the VBSEO as not anymore supported.

So we have migrate VBSEO URL to the new DBSEO tool

The issue remaining is all those all URLS which are not any more redirected to the new URL.

I guess i can't change the actual URL obtained after the last move from VBSeo to DBSeo which are not with the forum ID

thank you in advance for your support,
Yves

 

[Fillip H.]

Try adding a .htaccess rule like so:

	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forum'.modelisme\.com
	RewriteRule (.*) http://www.modelisme.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]

 

[bienenf]

Thank you so much Fillip,

we will try and let you know,

Best regards
Yves

 

[Fillip H.]

As this ticket has not received any further replies, I'll close it.

If you have any other issues or questions, please feel free to start a new support ticket. Thanks!