Hello

Is it possible to uninstall the SEO Mod without being punished by google?
Redirect -http://www.mydomain.com/mytopic-about-t586.html
to standard phpbb3 link?

I have a board that seems to be heavy modded and it is jut to much work updating.

Updating with the premod does not involves any work to update the SEO mods themselves.
It's just as easy as if you where updating phpBB with no mods.

Anyway, the answer is yes, you can uninstall, but you need to prepare things a bit, because like when you install some url rewriting, you need to properly redirect old urls to the new ones.
Note that if you recently redirected many natural urls to the rewritten ones, then it would probably be better to keep them a bit more not to be redirecting massively every other day.

The easiest way to get rewritten urls redirected to the natural ones would be to link all the rewriterules to a dedicated php script where you would grabb the GET vars and http 301 redirect from there.

For forums, topics and post, with pagination, you'd need :

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<?php
/**
*
* redirect.php
*
*/
// Some config
$phpbb_url = 'http://www.example.com/phpBB/';
// nothing to change bellow
$phpbb_root_path = './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);

$forum_id = !empty($_GET['f']) ? max(0, intval($_GET['f'])) : 0;
$topic_id = !empty($_GET['t']) ? max(0, intval($_GET['t'])) : 0;
$post_id = !empty($_GET['p']) ? max(0, intval($_GET['p'])) : 0;
$start = !empty($_GET['start']) ? max(0, intval($_GET['start'])) : 0;
$_start = $start ? "&start=$start" : '';
$url = '';
if ($post_id) {
   $url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?p=$post_id";
} else if ($topic_id) {
   $_forum_bit = $forum_id ? "f=$forum_id&" : '';
   $url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?{$_forum_bit}t=$topic_id{$_start}";
} else if ($forum_id) {
   $url = "viewforum.$phpEx?f=$forum_id{$_start}";
}
// Will redirect to forum index in case no url was built
$url = $phpbb_url . $url;
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently', false, 301);
header('Location: ' . $url);
exit();
?>

in a file called redirect.php, then, you'd need to replace all the script names (viewtopic.php, viewforum.php etc) in the rewriterules with redirect.php (only the script fine name), and it should work

Thanks for your reply.

Just want to make sure that I understand you correctly.
So i need to keep the .htaccess file as it is an do the changes you wrote + upload the redirect.php to root?

This of course requires to be tested locally before going online, but yes it's the principle, post here your .htaccess if you need more help

Well, its kind of complicated

I have moved one of my boards from a folder to a new domain.
Like this:
-http://www.mydomain.dk/phpbb2/forum.html
to:
-http://www.mynewdomain.dk/index.php
and this domain does not use SEO, but the old one does.

This means that I need to redirect this:
-http://www.mydomain.dk/phpbb2/server-skab-t3585.html
to this:
-http://www.mynewdomain.dk/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3585

I have asked similar question before, but I am lost on the solution

Anyway, I hope You can help. Here goes my .htaccess from the old domain:

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# 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 /phpbb2/
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD THE WWW PREFIXE REDIRECTION
#########################################################
# GYM Sitemaps & RSS               #
#########################################################
# Global channels
RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/?$ /phpbb2/gymrss.php?channels&$2&$4&$6 [L,NC]
#########################################################
# END GYM Sitemaps & RSS            #
#########################################################

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 66\.79\.166\.3 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 85\.140\.220\.7 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 85\.21\.125\.100 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 60\.190\.240\.68 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 91\.74\.160\.18 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 67\.159\.44\.138 [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 195\.229\.242\.57
   RewriteRule .* http://www.kinagrill.dk/ [R=301,L]

#####################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES - ADVANCED
#####################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz www.phpbb-seo.com
# STARTED : 01/2006
#################################
# FORUMS PAGES
###############
# 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=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
# GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
RewriteRule ^bekendtgorelser/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# PROFILES THROUGH USERNAME
RewriteRule ^bruger/([^/]+)/?$ memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# USER MESSAGES THROUGH USERNAME
RewriteRule ^beskeder/([^/]+)/?(side([0-9]+)\.html)?$ search.php?author=$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=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^indlaeg([0-9]+)\.html$ viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# THE TEAM
RewriteRule ^teamet\.html$ memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
# HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES

# 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=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################
#########################################################
# GYM Sitemaps & RSS               #
#########################################################
# Main feeds & channels
RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?(/([a-z0-9_-]+))?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/gymrss.php?$9=$8&$2&$4&$6&gzip=$10 [L,NC]
# Forum feeds
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/gymrss.php?$8=$1&$3&$5&$7&gzip=$9 [L,NC]
# Module feeds without ids
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/gymrss.php?nametoid=$1&$3&$5&$7&modulename=$8&gzip=$9 [L,NC]
# Google SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^sitemapindex\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/sitemap.php?gzip=$1 [L,NC]
# Forum sitemaps
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+-f([0-9]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/sitemap.php?forum=$1&gzip=$2 [L,NC]
# Module sitemaps
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_]+)-([a-z0-9_-]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /phpbb2/sitemap.php?$1=$2&gzip=$3 [L,NC]
#########################################################
# END GYM Sitemaps & RSS            #
#########################################################

to redirect -http://www.mydomain.dk/phpbb2/*.* to -http://www.mynewdomain.dk/ just use :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mynewdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

in mydomain.dk root's .htaccess.

Then, in the new domain's .htaccess, do as suggested, replace all the script names (viewtopic.php, viewforum.php etc) in the rewriterules with redirect.php.

Should so it, but should be tested too

++

Doesnt the above code miss info about the folder that should be redirected (phpbb2) ?

Oh yes, since in your case you want to get rid of the dir as well, so it would be :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mynewdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^phpbb2/?(.*) http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

In the old domain's root's .htaccess (old.com/phpbb2/url.html => new.com/url.html).
To as well redirect the root urls, you could add :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mynewdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

right after (old.com/url.html => new.com/url.html).

Adding this to my old domains .htaccess does nothing at all:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mynewdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^phpbb2/?(.*) http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

And yes, I did remember to replace mynewdomain with domain name

Stokerpiller wrote:And yes, I did remember to replace mynewdomain with domain name

The new one in the old one's .htaccess right ?

I have done changes on both domains.

First step is to get the folder phpbb2 redirected to new domain.
That part is not working.

Well, we are only talking about the old domain's root .htaccess so far, and you did not answer my question

I am not sure that I know what you mean?
Isnt this the answer: Uninstall, can it be done? ?

Yes, to be used in the old domain's root .htaccess with the new domain mentioned in it

That is eactly what I have done.