[farbird]

I have an old site

www.oldsite.com [ old CMS system ]

and a new site

main.newsite.com [ dragonfly 9.10 ]
[this is actually located in /newsite/main ]
there are a lot of old links from other affiliate sites which still link to the oldsite forum

ie
www.oldsite.com/forums...opic=12345

I want to redirect such that it will use the dragonfly threads instead.. [all the threads were imported to dragonfly already ]

ie to redirect from
www.oldsite.com/forums...opic=12345
to
main.newsite.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=12345.html

I tried to modify the root .htaccess file by including this line.

Code:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/forum/index.php?showtopic=$ http://main.newsite.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=$1.html

however, this isnt working as I expected.

can any htaccess experts help?

[farbird]

someone pls help

[xfsunoles]

RedirectMatch permanent ^/forum/index.php?showtopic=(0-9)$ main.newsite.com/Forum.../t=$1.html

i dunno this, its not fully testing

[WebSiteGuru]

Hmm, I though that I remember there is a way to redirect olddomain to newdomain by using .htaccess.

Here you go!

http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com wrote:

Make All URLs Point To One Domain
Here is a way to use the .htaccess file on Apache servers so that all URLs resolve to just one domain. Here at Search Engine Promotion Help I want to use the fully qualified domain name www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com for all URLs. Here is the content of our .htaccess file which makes this happen:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.searchenginepromotionhelp\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*) www.searchenginepromot...elp.com/$1 [L,R=301]


The first line turns the RewriteEngine on so the following code will work.

The second line is TRUE if the host is not www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com. The \ character is required to "escape" the . character. (The [NC] flag means to ignore case.)

The third line is TRUE if host is not an empty string.

The fourth line is executed if the previous two conditions return TRUE. This line says to redirect permanently to the fully qualified domain name (www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com). The L flag means this is the last rewrite directive, the "R=301" flag says to redirect to the rewritten URL permanently (HTTP response code 301).

You can also read it at the site:

www.searchenginepromot...ection.php

[farbird]

tried it..
the ? after showtopic causes everything to screw up.
if there was no ?.. the redirect will work fine...

anyone whom migrated CMS had this problem?

I still have tons of referring links from other forums linking to my old system..

Users whom tries to access the old CMS content wasnt able to get the the same page in the new CMS...

xfsunoles wrote:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/forum/index.php?showtopic=(0-9)$ main.newsite.com/Forum.../t=$1.html

i dunno this, its not fully testing

[bart2]

just insert a backslash immediately before the questionMark char in the regex pattern posted above, and that RedirectMatch statement should do the job!


Please post back to let us know the result

[farbird]

tried..

returned same results...