SMF urls to Xenforo urls - Redirect via htaccess

Question

I need to redirect old urls of an SMF forum system to new Xenforo. Old url is :

http://www.example.com/forum/index.php?topic=XXXX.0

and new url is :

http://www.example.com/forum/threads/XXXX/

What is the true htaccess code?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '16 at 20:21

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This should work, though it does assume that your threads have the same ID in both SMF and XF. It should be placed before Xenforo's redirects.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^topic=(\d+).*$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/forum/threads/%1/? [R=302,L]

answered Nov 30 '16 at 20:21

Gerrit0

@motahhari what apache version do you have? – Gerrit0 Dec 01 '16 at 20:04
Apache version 2.4.12 – motahhari Dec 01 '16 at 22:07
The same happens to me if you put the lines **after** XF's rewrites. Try putting it just after RewriteEngine On and it should work. – Gerrit0 Dec 02 '16 at 03:59
@motahhari Awesome :) Feel free to accept this answer – Gerrit0 Dec 02 '16 at 19:27

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