I beleive I found a way to redirect the old path to the new one:

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RewriteRule ^phpBB2/(.*)$ http://www.dendroboard.com/$1 [R=301,L]

So far it seems to work...

Let me know if this is ok.

I am also confused about the post redirect. We frequently have to move posts due to improper placement, so based on that is one option better here than another?

Thanks again,

Posts Redirections:
This option will determine how to handle post urls; it can take four values :

* off, do not redirect post url, whatever the case,
* post, only make sure postxx.html is used for a post url,
* guest, redirect guests if required to the corresponding topic url rather than to the postxx.html, and only make sure postxx.html is used for logged users,
* all, redirect if required to the corresponding topic url.


Please Note

Keeping the postxx.html URLs is harmless SEO wise as long as you keep the disallow on post urls in your robots.txt.
Redirecting them all will most likely produce the most redirections among all.
If you redirect postxx.html in all cases, this as well mean that a message that would be posted in a thread and then moved in another one will see it's url changing, which thanks to the zero duplicate mod is of no harm SEO wise, but the previous link to the post won't link to it anymore in such case.

kyle1745 wrote:Ok I have upgraded my site and moved phpBB3 to the root. I have installed Mixed phpBB3 SEO Mod Rewrite, and Zero Duplicate.

So far most things seem to be working well, but I have some questions:
- The check for Zero Duplicate when I try to miss spell a forum url gives me a 404. If I go to a post it will give me a 202.

The .htaccess is good, just to make sure, was your phpBB2 forum using url rewriting before ?

If you are using the virtual folder trick, with id removal, misspelled forum url will be 404s (like if thes virtual folders where real ones actually).
Try a misspelled topic url (in a topic url, if you missspel the forum url bit, you'll be redirected).

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RewriteRule ^phpBB2/(.*)$ http://www.dendroboard.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Is the way to go, but we can do a bit better if you previously was url rewriting your forum urls.

Post will always be in the proper place, no matter if you moved them.
The option on post redirection is meant to cover the most cases.
In general, setting it to 'guest' is enough, guest thus bots will be redirected, but we'll save resources on logged in user.
You can safely set it as you wish as long as you properly implemented the advised robots.txt which will make sure that no viewtopic.php and postxx.html will be crawled and cached by bots.

Redirecting post is not a terrific SEO enhancement, but it can help to reduce duplicate for example if you had your post urls indexed before you implement our mod rewrites (post urls should though be disallowed in all cases, even without url rewriting since they are duplicates).
And this seem to be your case, so at least set this one to guest to end up with a duplicate free forum.
The no duplicate mod is there to go even one step further getting rid of post urls among the forum pages.

My previous forum was not being rewritten, I had been waiting for the upgrade. So with that being the case I take it my rewrite line to redirect all the phpBB2/ to / is enough.

Right now I have the Posts Redirections set to all, but I am still confused on what this really does. I am using the provided robots.txt. So what do I lose by setting it to guest?

Thanks again for all of your help, you have been a huge help.

You're welcome

The post redirection setting values are pretty basic, if set to none, post url will never be redirected, no matter if they are using the natural url or the rewritten one, if set to post, natural url will be redirected to the rewritten ones (postxx.html, not really useful for far most cases), if set to guest, all kind of post url will be redirected to the corresponding topic url for guest only, and all will do the same for both registered and guest users.

Setting it to all makes more sens if you as well use the no duplicate mod.

Ok I have set it to all and thanks again.

I also have a couple of users getting errors like the following when clicking on the "jump to post" link to the right after a serach:

Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://www.dendroboard.com/post274743.html?hilit=fruit%20fly#p274743”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

I am unable to reproduce this, any ideas?

It's actually a highlight issue, try searching for a quick (but not final) fix

I think I can wait for the final fix, but I have another larger issue... Seems IE 6 will not load the site properly and at times at all. Firefox and opera seem to work as expected. I have not tried IE 7 yet.

Any ideas as in early testing this seemed to work, but not it just will not load.

http://www.dendroboard.com/ works for me with IE6. But we never know what can happen with such a poor software. I'm not saying that we should not care about IE6 user which are still plenty, but, that most likely IE6 is the only guilty here.

Try to clear it's cache and cookies to see if it gets any better.

Again, I had no issues browsing your site with IE6.

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Any ETA on a final fix for the "searching" issue?

Thank again for all of the help,

Also may have found another minor issue. It seems the Zero Dupe may removed the adwords tagging so you can not properly track your adwords via Google analytics.

Any word on the final search fix? it seems it is a bit more impacting than expected. It seems any search with a space in it will produce the following error:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Anything?

There is no issue without highlights, I know that this is an issue, but be patient, we're on updating more than this

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