Help need with a specific mod rewrite

p17blo · Regular Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 77

Hi,

I am just migrating from PHPBB to Nuke. Everything is moved across fine but as I am heavily indexed by Google I want to redirect any people coming to the site from the old PHPBB forum to the new nuke integrated forum using mod rewrite.

I already have some rewriting going on so I know that the rewrite engine works. Everything was installed in standard paths for both PHPBB and nuke So I firstly added the following to .htaccess in the root of the site as follows:

Quote:

RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic.php?t=([0-9]+) forums.html&file=viewtopic&t=$1 [L]

This didn't do anything - I made a few changes because I wasn't sure about special characters and ended up with this:

Quote:

RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic.php\?t\=([0-9]+) modules.php\?name\=Forums\&file\=viewtopic\&t\=$1 [L]

And that didn't work either.

I did try similar entries in the subfolder forum from the old PHPBB but this was no go also.

Can anyone see what I have done wrong?

And for completeness the top lines of my .htaccess file is
RewriteEngine on

Paul

evaders99 · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:32 pm

RewriteRule itself does not process the variables of the URL.
So you must create a RewriteCond to test it, along with the QSA paramater on the RewriteRule to pass the variables themselves. (Yea I had to look this up)

This works for me

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} t=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic.php modules.php ?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=$1 [QSA,L]

(Note: remove the space between modules.php ? - this was done to bypass the url rewrite on this forum)

p17blo · Regular Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 77

Thanks evaders, Through sheer persistance I already came up with something similar - Here is my code:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^viewtopic.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/modules.php ?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=%1 [R,L]

This was placed in the forum subfolder and the [R] was needed to force the url bar to change.

Notice mine is missing QSA, do you know what that does?

I think your code is probably a little more secure based on the variable selection

This is still a massive learning curve for me.

Paul

montego · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:07 am

I think, though, that you will want R=301 to tell the search engines that these pages have permanently moved?