Changed URL's with PHPBB3?

AMH · Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 30

I have used Version PHPBB2 for many years with PHPBB SEO. Then when I upgraded I now converted the database and gt it up and running. Problem is that all the URL's in Google are now wrong:

In Google:

files-vf9.html (and also) -vt24.html

In Website

files-f9.html (and also) -t24.html

How do I fix this in the HTACCESS?

# Lines That should already be in your .htacess
<Files "config.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>
<Files "common.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

# You may need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
# REMEBER YOU ONLY NEED TO STARD MOD REWRITE ONCE
RewriteEngine On
# REWRITE BASE
RewriteBase /forum/
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD THE WWW PREFIXE REDIRECTION

#####################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES - ADVANCED
#####################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz www.phpbb-seo.com
# STARTED : 01/2006
#################################
# FORUMS PAGES
###############
# FORUM INDEX REWRITERULE WOULD STAND HERE IF USED. 'forum' REQUIRES TO BE SET AS FORUM INDEX
# RewriteRule ^forum\.html$ index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-vt([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*/?[a-z0-9_-]*-vt([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# PROFILES ADVANCED
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-u([0-9]+)\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# USER MESSAGES ADVANCED
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-m([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ search.php?author_id=$1&sr=posts&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# GROUPS ADVANCED
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-g([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ sitemap.php [L]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+).xml$ sitemap.php?fid=$1 [L]

# FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM
# THESE FOUR LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewforum.php?start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################

doudou · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Changed URL's with PHPBB3?

Hi, my english is very bad but open file phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_class.php

Find and replace

AMH · Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 30

Thankyou!

-vt ----> OK!

-vf ----> No

Any ideas as I cleared the cache!

janmyszkier · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 43 Location: Wroclaw, Poland.

well as far as I understand vf come from ViewForum and vt comes from ViewTopic, so why one is better than other in your opinion?

doudou · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Changed URL's with PHPBB3?

SeO · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Changed URL's with PHPBB3?

Simpler solution, keep everything as it was at first, eg keep using the -t and -f, and to catch the -vf and -vt's, just replace all occurrences of -f and -t with -v?f and -v?t in your .htaccess.

The zero duplicate will do the rest and you'll be able to keep the virtual folder trick on Wink