Pending Redirects from vbulletin VBSEO to xenforo

[vb2xf]

Hello,

We are finally migrating an old vbulletin forum (started as vb3.5 then upgraded to vb4) with vbseo on it.
The test import went ok and the xenforo's URL redirects addon works correctly for the native vbulletin links. I can go to a link of that format and I end up in the correct place on xenforo.
The problem is that we've had vbseo since practically the beginning and all links to our content are vbseo links.
Some of them are relatively easy to rewrite to original vbseo links on webserver level (apache with rewrites in .htaccess), like those to forums, post, threads. However most of our links are of the type 'post within a thread' and have this structure:

domain.tld/forum-name/<threadid>-thread-name#post<postid>

and my understanding is that everything beyond the fragment identifier # is not part of the URI and thus this can't be done by the webserver


In my searches I saw somewhere that this plugin can be used as an intermediate step, but I'm not quite sure how that would work. Even if it can convert the links above to the original vbulletin format, that only works from within vbulletin and once I go to xenforo we're back to square one because the hits to xenforo would be of the vbseo format.

Can you help me with this?

 

[lonleiis]

hey, new here but i will try to help u.
handling #post<postid> fragments via .htaccess is tricky since the fragment isn't sent to the server—it's handled client-side. I myself dealt with a similar vbSEO-to-XenForo migration, and
in da end i used custom rewrite rules for predictable patterns and php redirect handler (its like post anchors)
I was building my site and caring for it for years and i had big seo value accumulated over time, i didnt want to lose the link building equity built up over years. That's why it was critical to redirect as many URLs as possible even the fragment-based ones using jsfallbacks or canonicalization within XenForo when direct server-side handling wasn't viable.
i dunno if this helps, at least i tried this was my experience...