Redirect old URLs from PunBB to Vanilla

labastro

Hello.

I'm trying to redirect old URLs from a PunBB board with custom paths, but I can't do it.

I tried the following code in htaccess, but it does not work :

RedirectMatch permanent /topic(.*) https://www.example.net/discussion/$1/

My old URLs use the following pattern:

https://www.example.net/topic123-keyword.html

Thank you for your help.

R_J

As far as I understand it, in the pattern /topic(.*)  the (.*) would match everything behind "/topic" when everything you need is the number. For Vanilla both links below are the same

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/37873/redirect-old-urls-from-punbb-to-vanilla

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/37873

try something like /topic(\d*).* instead

labastro

Yes, it works!

Thanks a lot.

charrondev

Have you tried the Redirector plugin? I'm pretty sure it has PunBB support builtin.

https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/redirector-plugin

labastro

Hi.

Yes, I had tried. But this plugin seems to work only with unwritten urls (= viewtopic.php?id=...).

nehasharma

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^topic(\d+)-(.+)\.html$ https://www.example.net/discussion/$1-$2 [R=301,L]

You can simulate your URL on any online tool such as https://redirectchecker.com/ to get detail redirection chain step by step.