Are there going to be 301 redirects from the old forum to this one?

[bhtooefr]

From a quick look, it looks like URLs stayed the same, just with the base URL changing from http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/ to http://www.vcfed.org/forum/. Any reason why the old vcforum can't be 301'd to this one? It'd make it easier to, for instance, reply to old threads that are on that forum (Google still turns up quite a lot over there). (And, it would improve the pagerank of this forum, as a 301 tells Google to stop looking at the old forum, and start looking at the new one.)

 

[SomeGuy]

I asked about that in another thread and there was just some excuse that they think redirects would break something else. (How?)

Perhaps someone can proved them with the appropriate .htaccess RewriteRule to do that? I'd do that myself but I don't eat regex for breakfast.

 

[bhtooefr]

Pretty sure this is correct. (The RewriteCond may not be needed depending on how things are set up.)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.vcfed\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^vcforum/(.*)$ http://www.vcfed.org/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[deathshadow]

Christmas on a cracker, is this even going to let me POST?!? Every time I get halfway through writing a post on this forum FF or Chrome crashes... Trying Vivaldi.

Here I was going to suggest the same thing, lo and behold here's a thread on the very topic.

I'd LOVE to hear what sort of lame excuse someone came up with apart from ignorance as to how a 301 from the old site would "break" a blasted thing.

 

[SomeGuy]

And I also want to add it is a real pain in the ass trying to search for anything since it winds up on the old site. It won't let you view the images or attachments there unless you are logged in. I haven't tried that yet, but I would assume it is locked down, so at least new users would have to MANUALLY figure out the new URL to get the attachments form the new site.

 

[Stone]

And I also want to add it is a real pain in the ass trying to search for anything since it winds up on the old site. It won't let you view the images or attachments there unless you are logged in. I haven't tried that yet, but I would assume it is locked down, so at least new users would have to MANUALLY figure out the new URL to get the attachments form the new site.

While this is correct is is better to search both the new and old sites with Google rather than the vBulletin search feature. FWIW, Google has always had a better handle on this site than the site, itself, did.