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Redirect old forum URLs to new format - Brian - 2016-04-26
It looks like search engines are sending people to the old forum URLs.
Here is an example. This is now a 404 error:
http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?20,16260,18104
It should redirect to here:
http://forums.ldraw.org/thread-16260-post-18104.html#pid18104
On apache servers this can be accomplished with mod_rewrite and an htaccess file. The rewrite syntax can capture the old numbers and "rewrite" the URL into the new format. Additionally, the rewrite can serve a 301 response, which tells search engines the resource is at the new location permanently.
RE: Redirect old forum URLs to new format - Orion Pobursky - 2016-04-26
The conversion script should have taken care of any links in post but this was on my todo list and got dropped. Thanks for the reminder.